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Free tools to convert VHD into VMDK and vice versa

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Free tools to convert VHD into VMDK disk files. I was wondering on how many tools can be found to convert virtual hard disks files from VHD (Microsoft) into VMDK (VMware) and vice versa. Well, sort of. Because not all the tools here are able to do the conversion both ways… -:). Those tools, one day, or […]

Technet Virtual Labs from Microsoft are Free

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Virtual Labs from Microsoft are free, for everyone with Windows and Internet Explorer as the only requirements. I stumbled through an article (in French) the other day showing some free access to microsoft’s virtual labs. I thought, ok, let’s take it for a spin and see what it’s looks like. Remember the VMworld Copenhagen labs? […]

New strategic partnership for Starwind and new product offers

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Starwind partners with Systematica and also with ETC BV. Strategic partnership for easier distribution of Starwind iSCSI SAN solutions and VM backup technologies in Italy and Netherlands. You can read both press releases below. We’ll be also talking about some interesting news from Starwind and new product offers. Starwind is a very dynamic company and now ships also […]

Windows 8 Metro Disabler Freeware

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Windows 8 Metro Disabler Freeware. Here is my Saturday post with some upcoming freeware utilities which can disable the new Windows 8 Metro user interface. All those utilities make the switch to old classic Win 7 style as a snap. Update: You might wanna check my post about a Free cool start menu for Windows 8 (Works on Server 2012 […]

Sysprep Limitations – drive letters changes and others

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Be aware of those Sysprep limitations – drive letters changes and others When using sysprep in your organisation, you might be interested in Syprep Limitations. Yes, there are some. Hard Disk with multiple partitions – That’s one of those limitation of Sysprep. This is the problem with a VM which is being “sypreped”, but the […]

ESXi 6.x Free – what’s the limitations?

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What’re the limitations of the  ESXi 6.x Free Edition – the VMware vSphere Hypervisor? The free version of the VMware vSphere Hypervisor – ESXi 6.x, has got some limitations. I know it’s been discussed on many places already, but I’m still getting questions about that and so I wanted to clear this out. Which use cases […]

vCheck v6 has been released

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Alan Renouf through his blog released the 6th version of very popular PowerShell script for troubleshooting vSphere installations. The script has changed from previous releases, since now it’s more easier for the community to Add new features into separate plugins. As said it’s not meant to be an audit script – to gather your ESXi […]

OneVirt Viewer Free Tool can Collects licensing informations accross many vCenter Servers

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New Free Application – collects data and licensing information from multiple vCenters. This Free application, which is multi-OS (Windows, MAC and Linux) permits to collect licensing informations (keys) accross multiple  vCenter servers. In fact you can add multiple vCenter Servers to the dashboard and display the licensing information on the screen or export in a CSV file format. If […]

Free lightweight Anti Virus Software – Microsoft Security Essentials

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The Microsoft Security Essentials is free for use on genuine Windows systems. The Microsoft Security Essentials is free anti malware software which can be found on this page here. As said it’s free if runs on genuine system. As I was pleasantly surprised that the soft is quite lightweight, getting few dozens of Mb in […]