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Free VCP-DCV and VCAP-DCA Study Guides

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To start with VMware certifications, the best way is to pass VCA (VMware certified Associate) – a new entry level VMware certification. Then the VCP and for some of you possibly VCAP exam. There are some excellent Free VCP-DCV and VCAP-DCA Study Guides. They’re written by Josh Cohen (@joshcoen) and Jason Langer (@jaslanger). I see those as a not-to-miss […]

Cameyo Application Virtualization – with online application catalog and online packager

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Today’s application virtualization packager company I’ll report is Cameyo, which is another alternative for home users or non profit organizations. For home users they not only provide free version of their product, but you can use their Online packaging tool for creating free 3 packages/month where you can submit your application to be packaged through […]

Light Firefox – stripped down version of Firefox starts faster and uses less memory

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Light Firefox might be your interest in case you’re not using some of the Firefox components that are normally part of full Firefox distribution. Those components are not present in the light version of Firefox called simply Light Firefox so it’s very fast to load and shall use less RAM. But on the other hand, for […]

Online Bookmarks for admin pages of your devices, labs or datacenters – Jupmpsquares.net

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Is the number of URLs to manage your devices, virtual labs, vSphere product’s admin pages or datacenter’s starting to explode? Your browser bookmarks aren’t adapted for RDP or SSH sessions? You want a single location to store your admin urls? New utility from Kendrick Coleman might be for you. It’s available free at JumpSquares.net and […]

Happy New Year 2014

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New Year’s Eve means fun. I stumbled through this ASCII art pic, so hey, why not to post it for fun….. -:) The past year has brought many new experiences to me. I tried to post tutorials, news and videos to help out new folks starting in virtualization and also for my own bookmarking needs. […]

VMware Network Virtualization Fundamentals – Free Interactive Learning Course

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There is a very interesting interactive learning course from VMware, and it’s free. It’s about networking. If you want to learn about VDS, vCNS and VXLAN or even NSX – the training is for you. The training has 3 modules where the 3rd module discusses some advanced VMware network virtualization solutions like vCNS, VXLAN and NSX…. […]

Nice Free alternative to manage MySQL and MicrosoftSQL Databases

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A nice alternative for working with SQL and MySQL databases called HeidiSQL. The utility is a donationware and the creator of the tool, Ansgar Becker provides it as an OpenSource – free utility. A very handy IMHO as you can create and save several logins/passwords within the utility as you probably manage several SQL or […]

Top 10 most visited posts in 2013

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The 2013 is heading slowly to the end. It’s inevitable. Each one of us getting older, but I say it’s like a good french wine – getting better with age… -:). So today I wanted to do a recap post showing which posts people were reading most this year and what kind of posts they […]

Disk2VHD 2.0 – Free Utility to Convert Systems into VHDX – Microsoft Virtual Disks

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Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell from Microsoft has released an updated utility for conversion of physical systems (PCs, Servers) into virtual disk files (VHD). Disk2VHD is “younger brother” of vCenter Server Converter Standalone, which is an utility for VMware professionals and IT admins (supporting latest vmx-10). Disk2VHD 2.0 is Free Utility to Convert Systems into VHDX or […]