Month: January 2009

Installing and configuring VMware Site Recovery Manager – VMware SRM

Well, Well, Well, I finally had the chance to try VMware Site Recovery Manager or VMware SRM, It is a software that will allow us to automate disaster recovery in our virtual environment. It is designed to 'move’ Our Virtual Environment, if we have a virtualized datacenter/data center and we want to be protected against any catastrophe, we will have another datacenter/data center replicated in another building, logically connected with fiber. VMware SRM relies on the replications that the manufacturers of storage arrays give us the possibility of giving a little red Pentagon-type button, and transfer all the execution that is carried out in one DPC to the other, Lifting the VMs on the target data center, with the same configurations and data that we had in the original data center. With this, We'll set up our(s) plan(is) Recovery, and we will have the possibility to test that the configuration is correct and would rise well in the […]

Using BgInfo

BgInfo is the typical utility of a lifetime (By the way, of course, by Sysinternals) that can help us to clarify our lives a little, especially if we are in large environments and we do not know which server we are logging into, or to make demos or courses and for students to clearly see on which server we are. It is a fully parameterizable application in which it will show us a lot of information about the computer where it runs. We can configure it to display on screen (Combined with the wallpaper) The name of the team, your IP address, operating system, Service Pack Level, Boot Time, CPU Type, Gateway, Netmask, DNS servers, DHCP server, Free disk space, Hard Drives Available, Internet Explorer version, domain to which it belongs, domain controller that validated you, RAM, Network Card, Network speed, Equipment Type, User in use, […]

Using GOURAMI FASe in XenApp Environments

This utility (for a fee) will allow us to perform many tasks more comfortably or at least faster than through Citrix XenApp consoles. The other day I needed to change three parameters in almost 500 Published Applications, in the face of that we are sold out and we cannot do 'anything' in principle. Or we get into DB level (never) or we are looking for some utility that will make our lives easier, In this case, it is even cheaper for the customer to acquire this application than to pay for our hours, since 'only’ slope 100$. Even so, we can download it from its official website and be able to execute all the tasks in DEMO mode (that is, with restrictions) in www.gourami.eu. FASe is from the manufacturer GOURAMI and is a package of applications: – Published Applications Utility – PAU: Allows you to modify any configuration to all Citrix published applications in bulk. – Farm Documentor: Generate a […]

Encrypting Hard Drive with Bitlocker on Windows 2008 o Windows Vista

This is one of the new features that Windows Server presents to us 2008 also available on Windows Vista, the possibility of encrypting our hard drive so that it is impossible to remove any type of data, all encrypted. We can store this key on a USB device such as a USB Pendrive or directly on a floppy disk, without this, The computer will not be able to reboot or decrypt the disk. The typical thing for when they boot our computer from a LiveCD of some tool to extract data or break the Windows password. It's ideal for when you go to the USA and your laptop is taken away at customs, he, Even though they definitely ask you for the password or… They take out the rubber glove ;), but in principle it is information that could not be accessed since it is encrypted.

Creating and Distributing VMware ACE Packages

Ok, once we are clear about how VMware ACE works, we have a VMware ACE server mounted and we have an instance of a virtual machine created, ready for distribution, and we have configured your policies, In this document, shows how to create packages and how certain policies we've previously configured would affect you. Being able to later distribute these packages to be able to run the virtual machines of it.

Installing VMware Workstation ACE, creating VMs for use with the VMware ACE environment and viewing the policies

Well, once we have the VMware ACE server installed, We can take advantage of it, even if it is not entirely mandatory to have an ACE server, since we can have our virtual machines (Packages/Instances) generated but without a server control. In this document, We show how simple it is, VMware Workstation ACE Edition installation to create these virtual machines, we generate a VM and then we see the directives other possibilities we have about them. Once everything is ok, we could generate the virtual machine packages to install or distribute them, but that is in the following document:HTTP://www.bujarra.com/?p=1908.

Installing and Configuring the VMware ACE Management Server

In this document, we will look at installing the VMware ACE Management Server product. VMware ACE will allow us to have, Distribute virtual machines to our employees in a secure way, since through certain directives or policies we can customize certain properties of the machine. An example to understand it, it is enough to create a VC and if we want a salesperson to take it with the product that we are going to sell inside and we do not want it to be hacked’ We can encrypt your content, capping so that you can't use external drives such as CDs, Hard Drives, net… We can make the virtual machine expire… and all of this can be managed from the VMware ACE Management Server, all this through Virtual Rights Management. Policies can be created from VMware Workstation ACE Edition, as well as virtual machines, This is explained in the following documents: HTTP://www.bujarra.com/?p=1855 and http://www.bujarra.com/?p=1908.