RV Tools – a small packaging, great value In a modern data center running VMware vSphere 4 you need to track and check your inventory for exemple to see that half of your VMs had been created with Thick disk and your SAN space is quickly becoming critical… Quick start of RV Tools – TAB […]
Online storage, share, backup with Dropbox
Use Dropbox for syncing files between computers. There is a very popular online storage application called DropBox. What is it? It’s an online storage place, which provides you with 2 gigs of storage space for free where you can store your PDF documents, spreadsheets, RTF or jpegs… If you’re using several computers you can synchronise […]
Free For MAC users – WinX DVD ripper software to download
Another Freebie to download and use. This time for MAC. Even if I’m not a MAC user, at least not yet, one of my partners had informed me about this giveaway. I have a few friends with MAC, but for now I’m PC, especially that because in my professional career I have to deal the […]
Free video screen capture software
Free video screen capture software. When it comes to capture a video from your screen, you have several choices. There are a professional actors on the market you can buy if you have the money, like Camtasia Studio. Those are the best ever investment if you can afford it (299$ per copy) and if you […]
Scan your PC with an Bootable ISO or USB from AVG
AVG rescue CD from Grisoft. Czech company AVG is well known for their antivirus/antispyware solutions. Besides the Free Antivirus solution they provide as an installable version – The AVG 9 Free, there is another tool. It’s an ISO image you can burn to a CD and scan and clean your computer before your Operating system […]
Free disaster recovery and P2V with Clonezilla
What is Clonezilla? Like filezilla – a very popular opensource FTP client and server applications, Clonezilla is a free software which I’ll test sonner or later…and which can P2V your physical server into virtual environement running under VMware vSphere 4 for exemple…. Clonezilla helps you to to do bare metal backup and recovery. There are […]
Troubleshooting the installation of VMware tools
Windows installer error prevents to install VMware Tools. The other day I was just struggling to install vMware Tools in XP pro VM. The VM was imported into my vCenter via Third party Acronis Image, but I don’t think that it was an Acronis problem in any way since I’ve done some P2V through Acronis […]
Veeam just released Fast SCP 3 compatible with W7 and 2008R2
Veeam just released a new version of very popular free SCP client FAST SCP 3. This software is very popular and the Windows 7 compatibility will make happy more than one (including me 😎 ). So it’s a great news to announce to all my regular readers. I followed Free SCP since the early days […]
Free RDP plug-in to manage your Virtual Infrastructure running under vSphere 4
Free tool from Xtravirt – RDP connection Plug-in. Xtravirt is know from the past providing great PDF tutorials for configuring VMware workstation to be able to run ESX Server as a nested VM. (Fyi This step is no longer necessary in VMware Workstaion 7). Or providing little script to download all PDF’s from VMware website […]
Free tool for Partitionning VMs !
There is a new free tool available from Paragon Software. If you played already with Partition Magic in the past or Acronis Disk director, you know that those tools are not free… But this one is. At least for first 5000 downloads… 👿 Linux/DOS bootable environment that contains fully functional Partition Manager 10 Professional. It’s […]