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20% and 25 % Discount on VMware Workstation and Fusion 3.1

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You can get 20% discount for VMware Workstation and 25% discount for VMware Fusion 3.1 by using coupon codes below. Please note that the codes might not be active when I publish this post. In this case, come back later (or the next day). Enjoy… Save 20% on VMware Workstation 7.1! Offer Expires: 1st of […]

New product from Xangati called VDI dashboard

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Xangati VDI dashboard has been released. Real time monitoring with Xangati for ESX gives you the drill down possibility to look and find which part of your virtual infrastructure is suffering from slowdowns and for which reason. Xangati now goes even further and announcing a new product called Xangati VDI dashboard. As you can see […]

Virtualization Management Suite from VMTurbo now available

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Virtualization Management Suite is available. The product announcements were made the 15the of February, but only now the immediate download Free Community Edition. Personally I haven’t tested the product yet, but some screenshots I saw on the VMturbo’s blog can give you an idea what’s possible. The Virtualization Management Suite has four components: – Monitor […]

Free training with VMware vSphere Essentials kits

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With this new promo you get Free On Line training from VMware when you buy vSphere Essentials or vSphere Essentials Plus. There is a new offer on VMware Website concerning free training offer. You can get Free Training when you purchase OnLine or through a reseller. This offer is only for VMware vSphere Essentials and […]

How to update the ESXi 4.1 free version to ESXi 4.1 Update 1

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UPdate ESXi 4.1 without Vmware Update Manager. If you’re using the free version of VMware Hypervisor you might want to know how to upgrade to the latest version if you don’t have VMware Update Manager.  I’ll show you the exact steps which are necessary to be able to update ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 4.1 update […]

XVP manager from VMware can manage Hyper-V Servers

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New tool called XVP manager and converter has been released by VMware Labs. With this new tool from VMware Labs you’re able not only to manage Hyper-V hosts but also convert VMs running on Hyper-V to VMware format and to migrate them to vSphere Environment. The installation is very easy. At first you must install […]

Configure your VI client

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This article is meant to be just informative for newcomers to virtualization under vSphere. I just wanted to point out this easy way to configure what do you need as an information when you fire-up your VI client. Whether you’re managing single host in a lab environment (my case…) or a cluster with more ESX(i) […]

vCloud Director Performance and Best practices guide

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vCloud Director Performance and best practices guide has been released. The PDF white paper has been released by VMware last week. What’s in it? There are several topics covered in the paper: Experimental Setup covering the setup used Sizing for Number of Cell Instances, tested with up to 12 cell instances with 10 fylly loaded […]

Starwind SAN 5.6 with Advanced GUI and more

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Starwind SAN Software has been updated to the version 5.6 Starwind SAN is not new for ESX Virtualization readers. I’ve done quite a few articles about Starwind when I was learning to pass my VCP certification exam. In case you don’t know Stawind SAN, you can have a look at my article – Starwind iSCSI […]