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Free Update of VMware Workstation 12.1 Released

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New update for VMware Workstation. A Free Update of VMware Workstation 12.1. Free update for existing Workstation 12 users only. Released fixes bugs only. It’s however fixing bugs which were causing issues in the latest Windows 10 version 1511 release (VMtools issues, unity issues or shared folder issues). Also problems with recognizing the ISO of Windows […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 5.3 – Manage Endpoints

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VCP6-DTM Study guide continues today with another chapter covering VMware Mirage which is part of the exam. VCP6-DTM Objective 5.3 – Manage Endpoints is today’s topic. Installation of Mirage components as well as their configuration was covered in previous chapter. Then in the follow-up chapter we dived into the management of Mirage layers. Mirage is very powerful product […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 5.1 – Install and Configure VMware Mirage Components

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VCP6-DTM Certification exam from VMware continues with today’s VCP6-DTM Objective 5.1 – Install and Configure VMware Mirage Components. VMware Mirage is fairly new product, which comes from Wanova acquisition back from 2012. Wanova itself was founded in 2008. I tested already the program in the lab, back in 2012. But since then the product has […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 1.1 – Describe and differentiate between component functions and features

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VCP6-DTM Study Guide will be a new project that will take shape in following weeks on ESX Virtualization. Mobility is something that’s going fast, very fast and it’s everywhere. Folks studying towards the VMware Certified Professional 6 – Desktop and Mobility Exam will find those series of posts and the VCP6-DTM Study Guide Page helpful, I […]

This VM will Expire after 7 days – VMware Workstation

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One of the cool features of VMware Workstation is protecting VMs. This can be a VM which has limited lifetime. You can use those VMs for example for student’s class or hand it to prospects or customers without worrying that they’ll continue using those VMs after certain period. The use cases are multiple as you can […]

VMware Workstation 12 Release With 40 New Features Added

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New major version of VMware Workstation 12 has been released few days back. This new version of VMware Workstation is an evolution of previous version, but a major evolution! New OSs has been added to the list, like Windows 10 which can now use easy install, but also the latest Linux distributions. Workstation 12 Pro supports […]

Windows 10 Install.esd to ISO – Easy Convert With NTlite

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There is a cool utility to convert Windows 10 install.esd to an ISO image. The main purpose of the tool is however to customize Windows images, removing components from ISOs, driver integration, language packs or apps integration. Few weeks back when I downloaded the Microsoft Windows 10 to my USB stick I did it in […]

VMware Horizon View 6.1.1 Released

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A new update to Horizon View 6 with this release of version 6.1.1. I have detailed the new features in my detailed post here, but today the release of Horizon View 6.1.1 fixing few bugs like for example the disk space reclamation. When this was enabled on Windows 8.1 linked clones, space reclamation operations ran […]

VMware App Volumes 2.7 Generally Available

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VMware App Volumes continues its progression and development this week. VMware App Volumes 2.7 Generally available. I was nicely surprised last year during VMworld with the demo I’ve seen, but since then the product has kept evolving. At that time the name of the product was Cloud Volumes. Now the version 2.7 of App Volumes […]