Windows Server 2008 R2 Downgrade

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/downgrade-TC.aspx

VMware VSS Explained

http://www.vmguru.com/articles/data-protection/8-vmware-vss-explained

BixData

http://www.bixdata.com/
ixData is a comprehensive management solution for new, dynamic IT infrastructures being built with mixed virtualization. Bix's platform represents a profound innovation in management science, uniquely suited to the complex demands of this technology. Breakthrough p2p architecture condenses a full-feature management suite into a single streamlined, self-installing package.

BixData Solution - Mixed Virtualization Management

BixData integrates Monitoring, Management and Analytics for (physical and virtual) application, server, and network layers.

• for Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD; VMware, KVM and Xen
• Self-installs in less than 5 minutes
• Scales to 1000's of servers
• Consolidates management of VMware and Xen
• Orchestrates from a single graphical desktop

Rack Tables

Asset management of datacenter
http://racktables.org/

Orion solarwinds

Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) makes it easy to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve performance issues within your ever-changing corporate or data center network. It delivers real-time views and dashboards that enable you to visually track network performance at a glance. Plus, with our dynamic network topology maps and automated network discovery features, you can keep up with your evolving network without breaking a sweat. And Orion NPM is the easiest product of its kind to use and maintain, meaning you will spend more time actually managing networks, not supporting Orion NPM.

http://www.solarwinds.com/products/orion/

Simplify Virtualization Management

http://www.toutvirtual.com/index.php

VMware Support - Advanced Root Cause Analysis

http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1717-Behind-the-scenes-at-VMware-Support-Advanced-Root-Cause-Analysis.html

http://www.slideshare.net/esloof/advanced-root-cause-analysis

NEXENTA Storage - NFS, iSCSI, CIFS

Enterprise class Open Storage

NexentaStor provides enterprise class unified storage capabilities via a software solution that ends vendor lock-in while delivering superior storage management functionality with a particular focus on virtualized environments.

http://www.nexenta.com/corp/

Zenoss Zenpacks

http://community.zenoss.org/community/zenpacks

The gateway to cloud storage

http://www.nasuni.com/

Oracle on VMware

http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2011/03/more-on-oracle-and-vmwareincluding-other-must-see-resources.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FdsAV+%28Virtual+Geek%29

VCAP4-DCD Exam Simulation

http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1698-VCAP4-DCD-Exam-Simulation.html

http://mylearn.vmware.com/courseware/82525/VCAPDCD_Tutorial.swf

VCAP-DCA Objective 2.2 : Configure and Maintain VLANs, PVLANs and VLAN settings

http://virtual-vargi.blogspot.com/2011/02/vcap-dca-section-2-22.html

Cloud storage

Client software for mounting cloud storage to OS as a local drive
http://www.gladinet.com/p/moreaboutDesktop.htm

Tech Wiki http://www.gladinet.com/gladwiki/moin.cgi/Install_Cloud_Desktop_2_0

Cloud storage can be from simple FTP, through Google Docs, up to EMC Atmos.

PowerGUI

PowerGUI is an extensible graphical administrative console for managing systems based on Windows PowerShell. These include Windows OS (XP, 2003, Vista), Exchange 2007, Operations Manager 2007 and other new systems from Microsoft. The tool allows to use the rich capabilities of Windows PowerShell in a familiar and intuitive GUI console.

Introduction to PowerGUI demo
http://www.powergui.org/shares/powergui/sbin/docs/PowerGUI_Overview/PowerGUI_Overview.html

PowerGUI Library » Virtualization
http://powergui.org/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=290

PowerGUI and VMware vCenter Virtual Machine attributes
http://vcommunity.vizioncore.com/monitoring/vfoglight/b/weblog/archive/2011/02/07/easily-create-vfoglight-services-based-on-vcenter-custom-attributes.aspx

EATON Intelligent Power Software Suite

Eaton’s Intelligent Power^® Software Suite gives you all the tools you need to monitor and manage power devices on your network, even in a virtualized environment. This innovative software solution combines the most critical applications in ensuring system uptime and data integrity: not only power monitoring and management, but also graceful shutdown during an extended power outage. Both software programs in this suite, Intelligent Power Manager and Intelligent Power Protector, can be downloaded free of charge.

http://powerquality.eaton.com/products-services/power-management/software-drivers/intelligent-pm.asp

GroupDrive Collaboration Suite

GroupDrive Collaboration Suite
http://webdrive.com/products/groupdrive/index.html
http://webdrive.com/products/webdrive/

Shared network disk as a service.

Project Management Software

Project Management Software As a Service
http://basecamphq.com/

VMware Converter - Summary of Snapshot Errors and Fixes

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-6842

P2V tips

32 bit DSN on 64 bit Windows Server

c:\windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe