Evening Reading

by Brian Leahy, Sep 08, 2010 5:00pm PDT

Similar to StarCraft II, I've begun publishing multiplayer guides for Halo: Reach, which comes out next week. Are these things you enjoy reading? It's a bit selective as it requires a good amount of proficiency at a game to be able to write a guide, but it's definitely something the Shacknews team can look into producing for new games moving forward... if we happen to be skilled at them.

What other games would you like to see guides written for?

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Vmware Dudez (repost, trying again)

I'm virtualising our entire system to VM's. The plan is i'll be setting up our existing 'VMWARE Server 2' Servers to ESXi 4.1. We'll have 3 and that will allow us to only need to buy the Vmware Essentials Kit.

Main thing, Backups. What is the best way to backup these. I found something online called 'esXpress'. It seemed puuurfeect. But then I encountered some errors and apparently it doesn't support ESXi.

Anyway, anyone have a different backup technique?

Sep 08, 2010 11:18pm PDT

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Vmware Dudez (repost, trying again) I'm virtualising our entire system to VM's. The plan is i'll be se... : millakazuya
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  I'm just about to start evaluating some software myself, the 3 main ones I've heard of are Veeam, PHD Vir... : Haxim
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    Vmware Essentials is quite reasonable. something like 500US. That gives you the basic features of VCentre... : millakazuya
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      I'll have to look into it, we've got 5 blades running free ESXi and one running ESX and managing them all... : Haxim
      
      Essentials Kit is about $500 US and Essentials Kit Plus is about $3000 US. The Essentials Kit Plus con... : millakazuya
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    PHD Virtual Backup is what I was talking about I believe (Esxpress) : millakazuya
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      From website : 'VMware ESXi PHD Virtual continues to extend our product family to meet the expanding n... : millakazuya
      
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      A few people I've talked to swear by vRanger (I'm looking at this or possibly vReplicator for offsite HA ... : Haxim
      
      Just looking at their site. Some cool tools! : millakazuya
      
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      I'm trying to convert VM's from VMware Server 2 to ESXi. I'm getting alot of failures. : millakazuya
      
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      How are you converting them? I've seen some reccomendations that it's just easiest to install VMware conv... : Haxim
      
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      I've tried it, it sometimes works but sometimes have random errors.
      
      Also, most are linux and I don't believe it runs the same on linux as windows.
      
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      I've tried it, it sometimes works but sometimes have random errors. Also, most are linux and I don't ... : millakazuya
      
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      Have you tried just copying the *.VMX and *.VMDK files to the ESXi host, and then right clicking on the V... : oD1Nz
      
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      Interesting, are they compatible. I guess I haven't tried this, although its difficult to have ESXi acces... : millakazuya
      
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      You mean aside from just using the datastore browser to upload? I take it if you've got some linux gue... : oD1Nz
      
      Gonna have a play now. : millakazuya
      
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      FFS, I forgot about the upload to Datastore option, i thought it was locked in Vsphere mode (only open in... : millakazuya
      
      Been trying to set up NFS Unix servers on out VM server 2 windows server, wasted some time :) : millakazuya
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  Some questions I've had about this kind of stuff. First, why put everything in VMs? Doesn't it increas... : Robotic Puppy Eater
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  I use veeam to backup my two ESXi serveren - Works great, although the Veeam License was more expensive t... : bundy
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    How much is it? : millakazuya
    - List price is $599 per CPU socket I think. : Haxim
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  legato and backup exec both have agents you can install to do backups of your servers. However, I've onl... : beastrabban
  - Agents to install on a Host or a management server? (or just a vm?) : millakazuya

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