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How do you enable SSH login for vSphere Data Protection?

Some situations call for remote access to the vSphere Data Protection appliance. This walk-through will show you how to enable SSH login so you can access it remotely.
VMware User Group president shares members' cloud challenges

At VMworld 2013, VMware tried to help customers solve their cloud computing problems. The VMware User Group president explains what those issues are.

SMBwag with Stuart McHugh [Episode 81]

Stuart McHugh is formerly the European System Analyst for London based law firm and worked within the systems/infrastructure team as the global lead for Virtualization/Cloud Computing.
SMBwag with Raymond Overman [Episode 80]

This is a chat with Raymond Overman. He’s the Information Technology Manager for Microban Products Company based in Charlotte, North Carolina – leader in built-in antimicrobial product protection
Chinwag with with Dell’s Marc Stitt [Episode 77 part 2]

Part 2 of chinwag with Dell's Marc Stitt.
Chinwag with with Dell’s Marc Stitt [Episode 77 part 1]

This week’s chinwag was recorded in Austin, Texas with Dell’s Marc Stitt.
vNews – May, 2012

We bring you - vNews, a monthly round up of all the news and trends around virtualization.
Chinwag with Bob Plankers [Episode 74]

In this chinwag, Mike gets into a conversation with Bob Plankers on the failings of Virtual Appliances and much more.
vNews – April 2012

With Mike Laverick of RTFM Education and Stu McHugh round up this month's virtualization trends.
Chinwag with Stuart Miniman [Episode 73]

In this chinwag, Mike gets into a conversation with Stuart Miniman, Principle Research Contributor at Wikibon
vNews – March 2012

We bring you the new and improved -vNews, a monthly roundup of all the news about virtualization
Vendorwag with Whiptail – James Candelaria [Episode 72]

In this vendorwag, Mike poses some relevant questions to James Candelaria , founder of WhipTail
Chinwag with Julian Wood [Episode 71]

In this chinwag, Mike and Julian covera range of topics including around VMware Virtualization, VDI, SSL AND SRM.
Vendorwag with Virtual Instruments – Archie Hendryx [Episode 70]

In this vendorwag, Archie Hendryx kicks off with a quick overview of Virtual Instruments, and then heads off into the QA session with Mike.
Chinwag with Jane Rimmer [Episode 69]

In this chin wag, Jane Rimmer discusses her opinions about the VMware Community in which she plays an active part.
vNews – January 2012 (Monster Edition)

Missed the news compilation around virtualization, this months monster edition of vNews is a feature length presentation covering the top trends.
Vendorwag with Zerto – Gil Levonai [Episode 68]

This vendorwag has Mike in conversation with Gil Levonai, vice president of products for Zerto.
Chinwag with Ed Czerwin [Episode 67]

In this chinwag, Mike chats with Ed Czerwin about whether multi hypervisor datacenter is a real future option and his opinion on vSphere5.
Vendorwag with Nimbula – Jay Judkowitz [Episode 66]

In this chinwag, Miks strikes up a conversation with Jay Judkowitz, Product Manager for Nimbula.
vNews – November 2011

We bring you vNews, a monthly round up of all things revolving around virtualization.
Vendorwag with Actifio – Ash Ashutosh [Episode 64]

This weeks vendorwag is with Ash Ashutosh, who is CEO of Actifio.
Vendorwag with Tintri – Ed Lee

This week’s “Vendorwag” is with Ed Lee. He is one of the main architects at Tintri.
Chinwag with Shannon Snowden [Episode 62]

In this chinwag, Mike gets into a conversation with Shanbon Snowden, Delivery Services Manager at New Age Technologies
Chinwag with Glenda Canfield [Episode 61]

Glenda Canfield features for the second time on chinwag and dicusses a variety of topics with Mike.
Vendorwag with Nimble Storage – Ajay Singh [Episode 60]

Mike speaks to Ajay Singh, VP Product Management at Nimble with focus on Nimble Storage.
Vendorwag with vKernel – Bryan Semple [Episode 59]

In this chinwag, Mike gets into a conversation with Bryan Semple from VKernel
Vendorwag with VirtualSharp – Phil Maynard [Episode 58]

In this wag, Mike poses a range of questions to Phil Maynard, Senior Director, Product Marketing at VirtualSharp about their ReliableDR product
VMware vSphere 5 demo: Storage DRS and more

Expert Brian Knudtson demos VMware vSphere 5, including Storage DRS and the vCenter Server Appliance.
Chinwag with Scott Lowe on VMware HA Stretched Clusters [Episode 57]

In this chinwag, EMC vSpecialist Scott Lowe discusses the strengths, weakness, benefits and challenges of stretching out a VMware HA cluster
Chinwag with Andi Mann [Epidsode 56]

In this chinwag, Mike gets into a conversation with Andi Mann, vice president of Strategic Solutions at CA Technologies and discuss all matters cloud and virtualization based.
Chinwag with Dante Orsini [Episode 55]

In this chinwag, Mike has a conversation with Dante Orsini, Vice President of Business Development at iland.com about their vCloud Director offering.
Chinwag with Doug Brown [Episode 54]

In this chinwag, Mike gets into a conversation with Doug Brown on topics revolving around VMware and Virtualization.
Chinwag with Duncan Epping [Episode 53]

In this Chinwag, Mike chats with Duncan Eppying of VMware about a variety of subjects such as TPS, HA/DRS, SVMotion performance and much more.
Vendorwag with InstallFree – Alon Yaffe [Episode 52]

In this vendorwag, Mike gets into a conversation with Alon Yaffe of InstallFree to talk about the general usage case of application virtualization.
Chinwag with Edward Haletky [Episode 51]

Edward Haletky touches upon the security aspects of cloud, in the chinwag with Mike.
Vendorwag with Spoon – Lee Murphy [Episode 50]

In this chinwag, Mike gets into a coversation with Lee Murphy, Partner Integration Engineer at Spoon.
Chinwag with Rick Vanover [Episode 49]

In this chinwag, Rick Vanover shares his thoughts on multiple topics such as Bring-Your-Own-PC models, Legacy & Older software, Setting up his Hyper-V lab and much more.
Vendorwag with Browsium – Matt Heller [Episode 48]

Mike gets into a conversation with Matt Heller, CEO & Founder, Browsium about their niche “UniBrows” product and what it has to offer.
Vendorwag with PHD Technologies – Frank Musacchia [Episode 47]

In this Vendorwag, Mike talks to Frank Musacchia of PHD Techologies and covers a wide range of topics around backup.
Vendorwag with newScale – Rodrigo Flores [Episode 45]

Rodrigo Flores, founder of newScale answers Mike's questions about cloud and the different aspects of newScale technology.
Chinwag with Raymond Overman [Episode 44]

Raymond Overman answers Mike's questions on the SMB take on virtualization and discuss some of the challenges of implementing VMware in small environment.
Vendorwag with DynamicOps – Leslie Muller [Episode 43]

Mike Laverick gets into a conversation with Leslie Muller, CTO and Founder at DynamicOps.
Chinwag with Jase McCarty [Episode 42]

In the chinwag, Mike talks to Jase about his recent move to EMC. Jase also dishes out advice to those who are new to virtualization.
Vendorwag with UShareSoft – James Weir (Founder) [Episode 41]

Mike gets into a conversation with James Weir, CTO and co-founder of UShareSoft, and talks to him about the company’s technology vision, strategy, products and activities.
Vendorwag with Xangati – Nathanael Iversen [Episode 39]

This week, Mike strikes up a conversation with Nathanael Iversen, Director of Technical Marketing at Xangati, Inc.
Vendorwag with vCO Team - Burke Azbill [Episode 37]

Chat with Burke Azbill of the VMware vCenter Orchestrator Team.
Vendorwag with Andrew Barnes of NeverFail [Episode 34]

Andrew Barnes of Neverfail answers some of Mike's hard hitting questions. Take a look at how he fares.
Vendorwag with Karl Robinson of StratoGen [Episode 33]

In this weeks vendorwag, Mike interviews Karl Robinson of StratoGen.
Vendorwag with Ron Oglesby of Unidesk [Episode 32]

In this vendorwag, Mike gets into a conversation with Ron Oglesby of Unidesk
Chinwag with Glenda Canfield – AKA Citrix Gurl [Episode 31]

This weeks chinwag is with Glenda Canfield aka "Citrix Gurl". In their little chinwag, Mike and Glenda discuss matters relating to VDI and general application delivery.
Chinwag with Ricky El-Qasem [Episode 25]

In this weeks chinwag Mike and Ricky chat about the tension between being a jack-of-all-trades in IT and how Ricky got into making applications with the angle mainly on virtualization.
Vendorwag with DoubleTake - Ian Masters [Episode 21]

Mike has a wide-ranging conversatrion with Ian Masters, UK Sales and Marketing Director at Double-Take Software.
Chinwag with Scott Lowe [Episode 15]

In this chinwag, Scott discusses his recent move to EMC – and also expands upon the top of server consolidation from the “eggs in one basket” scenario.
Chinwag with Jason Boche [Episode 14]

In the chinwag Jason talks to Mike about how he runs EMC storage in his home lab and his recent firmware updates to prepare for the NFS plug-in
Video: Configuring NetApp SnapMirror for VMware Site Recovery Manager

Take a look at how you can configure SnapMirror for SRM and install the NetApp SRA and configure the “Array Manager” ready to run a recovery plan with VMware Site Recovery Manager.
Chinwag with Jay Rogers [Episode 02]

In this episode we discuss Jay’s experiences with IBM Blades and why he’s looking at virtualization IO vendor XSIGO.
NetApp Rapid Clone Video: Attack of the Clones

This video shows you how install the Rapid Clone Utility, and use it to create virtual desktops very quickly – and also how to turn on deduplication and grow a NetApp volume.
Virtualize ESX: Chapter 5 - Part 6

Virtualize ESX
Licensing, Creating vCenter Objects, and Adding ESX hosts: Chapter 2 - Part 3

In this video I will show how to license both vCenter and ESX hosts. Then how create the two main objects in vCenter – folders and datacenters. Finally, I will walk you through adding your first ESX host.
VMFS Volume Grow & VMFS Extents: Chapter 4 - Part 2

In this video I will demonstrate VMFS volume grow and extents
Enabling EVC (Enhanced VMotion Compatibility): Chapter 7 - Part 2

EVC stands for Enhanced VMotion Compatability. This system creates a baseline from your ESX hosts to make sure incompatabile ESX host cannot be added to the cluster – it can also downgrade the CPU spec of modern ESX host with the latest CPUs (such as Intel FlexMigrate) forcing them to be compatible with older ESX hosts.
Standard vSwitches (SvSwitches): Chapter 3 - Part 1

In this video I will show how to create the 3 main types of Standard vSwitch (internal, outbound, teamed). I will also handle vLAN configuration – and set up the VMkernel networking to work for VMotion.
NAS and NFS Storage: Chapter 4 - Part 4

In this video I will be connecting to a NFS datastore. I only call this "advanced" because I’ve already handled the networking side of things. In truth setting up NAS is easier than FC-SAN or iSCSI-SAN…
Increasing the size of virtual disks, hot-add of disks, Raw-Device Mappings RDM: Chapter 5 - Part 2

Increasing the size of virtual disks, hot-add of disks, Raw-Device Mappings (RDMs)
Enabling DPM (Distributed Power Management): Chapter 7 - Part 1

DPM stands for Distributed Power Management, it’s intention together with DRS is put ESX host in powered-down “standby” mode if it regards the load on the overall cluster, that doesn’t need ALL the ESX hosts running. The goal is to save power in test and DR environments where you only run the ESX hosts you need.
Create a VM and Install Windows/VMware Tools: Chapter 1 - Part 2

This videos covers how to install a VM on local storage, and how to upload an .ISO image. This master VM will become the basis of my first 3 primary VMs – a domain controller, a MS SQL 2005 and vCenter.
Enabling DRS for the first time with Manual Mode: Chapter 6 - Part 1

Enabling DRS for the first time with Manual Mode
ESX Maintenance Mode: Chapter 6 - Part 4

Using Maintenance Mode for ESX servers
Clone a VM from the Command-Line: Chapter 1 - Part 3

In this case I assume you don’t have vCenter yet, so I show you how to duplicate a VM just with command-line tools. Later on after installing vCenter and sorting out the networking/storage – I will be showing how to duplicate a VM with vCenter templates
Install ESXi and Adding to vCenter: Chapter 2 - Part 4

In this video I will demo how to install ESXi to a 2GB memory stick, and carry out some post-install tasks such as setting up the IP configuration. After doing that I will add the ESXi host into the vCenter created earlier in the video series.
Setting a Static MAC Address: Chapter 5 - part 3

Setting a Static MAC Address
Fibre-Channel SAN and VMFS: Chapter 4 - Part 1

In this video I will be creating a new LUN/Volume for holding VMs using an EMC Clarrion and NaviSphere. I will also format the VMFS volume with VMFS. I then use Storage VMotion to move VMs off my local storage and put the VMs on Shared Storage – in preparation for things like VMware DRS, HA, and FT.
DRS Partial or Fully-Automated mode: Chapter 6 - Part 2

DRS Partial or Fully-Automated mode
Enabling advanced features (Hot-add RAM/CPU,NPIV, ParaVirtualization, MMU): Chapter 5 - Part 4

Enabling advanced features (Hot-add RAM/CPU,NPIV, ParaVirtualization, MMU)
Install ESX4 Classic: Chapter 1 - Part 1

This video covers how to install ESX4 “Classic” to local storage. I begin by stopping access to external storage such as fibre-channel SAN by disabling the PCI cards.
Affinity/Anti-Affinity Rules: Chapter 6 - Part 3

Affinity/Anti-Affinity Rules
vSphere Launch Video

Take a look at the VMware vSphere4 Launch in full and as you would expect there was a lot of talk about clouds.
Installing VMware ESX

Learn how to install VMware ESX by watching this step-by-step installation screencast.
VMworld Video: ESX Next Generation

Find out the new additions to the ESX Classic as opposed to ESXi.
VMworld VIDEO: The Evening of Day One

This Video by Mike captures the evening of Day One at VMworld. Take a look at how he also managed to get himself an invite to the TripWire dinner.
VMware vLockstep update with David Davis

Learn about VMware's new high availability tool vLockstep from virtualization expert David Davis in this video.

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