Hyper-V vs vSphere, Converting VMDK to VHD Plus 2 Free Webinars

Petri Recommended Reading Examining Cloud Service Provider Policies and Practices In this post, IT veteran Mike Danseglio examines the US government's concerns about using public cloud computing, by mapping the theory and recommendations expressed in the Special Publication 800-144 Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing with a practical IT approach.

VMware vCloud Director Essentials - Setting up vCloud Director - Part 2 In Part 1 of this two-part series, David Davis gave an overview of the vCloud Director web interface and demonstrated how to connect to vCenter and vShield. In the conclusion of this series, Davis talks about creating two important entities: a Provider Virtual Datacenter and a VM Deployment Template.

Petri IT Knowledgebase Solution Spotlight: Free Security Webinar with Expert Instructors Thursday May 10th at 10am CDT Want to master browser security and teach your users safe web browsing? Then join security experts Mike Danseglio and Lisa Szpunar for Why All Toolbars Are Evil: What IT Pros Need to Know about Browser Security, another complimentary Webinar from your friends at TrainSignal. This Webinar will cover major browsing threats and vulnerabilities, the evil secrets of browser toolbars, how InPrivate browsing can keep your information private, examples of drive-by downloads and how to prevent them, and group policy based browser security solutions. PLUS, your change to win TrainSignal’s CompTIA Security+ Training. Arm yourself with practical tips and solutions for keeping your internet experience secure.  Register for free today! Or, see all of our past webinars on-demand.

Command Line WMI Part 3 In the first two posts of this three-part series, Jeff Hicks showed ways to gather WMI information using the command line tool WMIC. In the conclusion of this series, Jeff looks at some advanced ways of formatting data.

Setting up a Multi-Subnet Infrastructure without a Router between Subnets Are you looking to work with a multi-site environment but don't have a "true" router to work with? In this post, J. Peter Bruzzese and Ed Liberman team up to show you a relatively simple solution, as long as you have a decent grasp of subnetting, an understanding of AD Sites and Services, and basic network troubleshooting and testing.

Converting VMware VMDK Files to Microsoft's VHD Format and VHD to VMDK There are two popular and mutually incompatible virtual disk file formats in common use today: VMware's VMDK format and Microsoft's VHD format. In order to attach a VHD disk to a VMware virtual machine, or vice-versa, you have to convert it first. This guide by virtualization and storage expert Tom Finnis explains how to use Starwind's V2V Converter utility to do just that, with a detailed example explaining how to convert a VMDK virtual disk to VHD format and then mount it in a Windows system in order to edit the files it contains.