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26 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Single Pane Of Glass – SPOG Window

Single Pane Of Glass – SPOG Window As of this post Google search shows 1,080,000 results for Single Pane Of Glass and the top result shows a basic definition.   In the last 2 years I heard the phrase Single Pane Of Glass or SPOG used a number of times including by me when I was [...]

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19 June 2011 ~ 7 Comments

Free VM Tool – ToutVirtual VirtualIQ Pro – Citrix, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle and/or VMware

Free VM Tool – ToutVirtual VirtualIQ Pro – Citrix, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle and/or VMware >>> Download <<< Last week I wrote about Trilead VM Explorer for managing VMware ESX and 3i hosts without vCenter, today I am writing about VirtualIQ Pro which looks like a similar product except VirtualIQ Pro is hypervisor-agnostic supporting both Type [...]

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19 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Three Ways for Extending a VM’s Disk

Most new virtual servers are provisioned from templates that have 12 to 20 GB “C” disk so what do you do when you run out of space?  Here are three methods which might work for you to increase the size of your virtual server’s disk.  Use VMconverter from VMware to clone the VM and change [...]

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18 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Free Tool – VKernel Search My VM

Good free tools for VMware VI are not easy to come by so I thought I would write a post about one I think may have some usefulness. It’s from VKernel and it’s called SearchMyVM. According to VKernel here are the benefits: FREE “Google–like” SearchMyVM tool Quickly find info in your VMware data center Gain [...]

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