Best Practices: VMware monitoring with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007
and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
by Alec King
This document describes an end-to-end solution for monitoring VMware vSphere or Virtual Infrastructure 3 using a full integration with Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager (Ops Mgr) to produce a comprehensive image of system health with minimal impact on your operations staff.

VMware Monitoring with HP Operations Manager
by Alec King, Veeam Senior Product Manager
This paper examines how to select the best solution to bring VMware to the HP Ops Manager console. Providing readers with a simple but highly relevant set of criteria for choosing the best possible solution in order to leverage the management infrastructure that’s already in place, reduce the amount of training operators need, shorten problem resolution time, and protects the integrity of the HP Operations Manager.

VMware and Microsoft VSS: How to correctly back up and recover Microsoft SQL, Exchange, Active Directory
and SharePoint in VMware environment
by Anton Gostev
This white paper provides guidance on how to easily test and verify whether your current backup approach is able to correctly handle the backup and restore of mission-critical Windows applications. We strongly encourage all organizations to verify their backup approach using this simple test to ensure that the solution you have chosen is able to back up and correctly restore all your VMs hosting mission -critical Windows applications.

Hot backup of MySQL on a Linux VM
by Ricky El-Qasem,
Senior Systems Engineer
at Veeam Software
This document describes the process required to take a consistent backup of MySQL running in a Linux virtual machine guest.

Expanding the virtual disk size in 4 steps
by Alexey Vasiliyev
This white paper explains an effective way to expand the virtual disk size in just four steps. It\'s easy and doesn\'t require installing any additional OS or third-party tools. Running out of disk space is a common problem and a very annoying one.  Follow these steps the next time it happens to you.