I received my vExpert Award I thought that it would have take much more time to arrived here, but the envelope showed that it was posted the 24th of September and it arrived the 1st October. Just about a week only… -:) Even that we live at a beautiful tropical Island, we do have the […]
RVtools from Rob de Veij is updated to 2.6
Great Freeware tool which is part of my Top 10 Freeware tools I use and recommend was just updated by Rob de Veij on his website Robware.net. Even if in the info page it says that: This application only supports ESX Server 3.x, VirtualCenter 2.x and ESX Server 3i. It’s just that Rob did not […]
Terminals is free rdp connection manager with great features
Terminals is a Free connection manager. Terminals cames from Microsoft’s open source project hosting site, CodePlex. It’scapable of creating connections using RDP, VNC, VMRC, Telnet, SSH1, SSH2, ICA Citrix, RAS and HTTP sessions. When you manually creating a connection, you’ve got the choice of the protocol, and then it depens which protocol you are using […]
Use your Windows server as a shared Storage for your ESX Server
Ok, I already posted a guide about how to configure Openfiler Linux for free as a shared storage for your Virtual Infrastructure. If you’re not into linux, you can just try Starwind for free too…. (up to 2 TB of Data !!). Here is a PDF guide (it’s for ESX 3.5 but the princip is […]
Mike Laverick has just announced: Free download of VMware SRM 1.0
Mike Laverick has just announced that he made his book available as a Free Download from Lulu. That’s a great move from Mike. As after VMworld he is in early stage of writing the upcoming version which will be updated for the VMware SRM 4.0 product. VMware SRM is currently in beta. Great possibility for […]
Wmware Studio for developing OVF – first look
What is VMware Studio? I did not really know about VMware studio before. Sure, I knew that there was a OVF format and when you want to deploy a new VM from a OVF format, but a product which permit the actual development phase I was not aware of. Not until I found some info […]
Nice add on for Putty – PuTTy Connection Manager
Everybody knows PuTTy. There is PuTTy classic and PuTTy as a Portable application. I mentioned PuTTy in my post Top 10 Free tools to manage your Virtual Infrastructure. What I did not know is that there is a cool little plugin (add-on) for PuTTy which enables having tabbed multiple instances of PuTTy. The software is […]
VESI – sponsored initiative of Vizioncore might be a great way for us to adopt Powershell
Are you a programmer? I’m not. That’s why I’m interrested in VESI. What is VESI ? The Virtualization EcoShell Initiative is a new Vizioncore-sponsored community initiative. Who is behind? It’s virtualization expert and author Scott Herold from VMguru.com. The goal of The VESI community is to further enhance the administrative experience of virtual infrastructures with […]
Top 10 Free tools for VMware to manage your Virtual Infrastructure
My selection of freeware tools to manage your Virtual Infrastructure. Update: You might find an updated version of this list on a Dedicated Page of my Website here: www.vladan.fr/free-tools-vmware….. Time to time is a good move to share with the others my tools that I’m using to manage and administer VI infrastructure, but not only… […]
Top 10 PowerShell scripts for Virtual Infrastructure
I want to share with you the information I found at virtual-strategy.com about Top 10 PowerShell scripts availables today. I think that it’s is a great resource, which should be bookmarked and kept safe and every ESX admin should have an online copy…. So in no ordered list: 1. Quick Migration Script from Mike diPetrillo. […]