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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 […]

How to Share files through VMDK disk file between VMs when network connection is restricted

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Quick tip on sharing files between VMs without network connection. When you want share files between VMs which do have a restricted network access. There are two elegant ways (there might be more) to do it. One of them is the sharing possibility through a VMDK file. How it’s done? Basically what you need to […]

Multiple Virtual Desktops on your PC Free with Virtual Dimension

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Virtual Desktops to enhance your Windows box. By default, Windows 7 or Windows XP does not provides you with the possibility to have multiple desktops. Linux does…-:)  But there are some free cool tools which does it for you. One of them I picked up today and which is really simple to put into place. It […]

WP CleanFix – Valuable free tool for WordPress bloggers to optimize and clean WP Database

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Trying to optimize WordPress Database? WP CleanFix – a Free tool that might be handy… If you’re like me and run a blogging software on your website, you might read on and have a look at an excellent tool I discovered few weeks ago. This tool is a free plug-in and which optimizes WordPress MySQL database, […]

ESXi Customizer – tool to customize ESXi Install ISOs

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There has been a new free tool for customizing ISO images. The latest version is 2.7. This tool is unsupported by VMware but can be used in your home lab for integrating unsupported LAN drives for example. The tool creator is a German VMware user – Andreas Peetz, which created this tool for his own […]

Top 7 VMware management challenges

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What are the biggest challenges in managing Virtual Infrastructures? Virtual Infrastructure brings new challenges that does not exists in physical world. If you ignore them, you might soon be facing a serious nightmare and disorder. Your neat and clean Virtual environment after 6 month of use might look like a mess. So which Challenges you […]