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Free Tool – Trilead VM Explorer for ESX/ESXi

Free Tool – Trilead VM Explorer for ESX/ESXi  Download >>> Trilead VM Explorer <<<

Trilead VM Explorer is a free (public beta) VM management tool that works on VMware ESX/ESXi. I haven’t had the time to install or evaluate VM Explorer but just going over the features, it looks like a worthwhile product for those [...]

VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop?

Hello, I’ve been researching whether to use VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop for a large VDI deployment at my work. Recently I had both companies demo their products and I must say I was impressed with both. XenDesktop has a feature called FlexCast that intelligently adjusts the DVI solution to available bandwidth, where-as View [...]

VMware Lab Manager 3.0 Requires VirtualCenter

After spending a week on what should have been an easy project to designing a student lab environment at a well known online university, I am now stumped because of a change in VMware’s Lab Manager 3.0 requirements. Lab Manager 3.0 now requires VirtualCenter which poses a problem because this lab environment is isolated for security reasons away from [...]

Demo Google Chrome OS Beta on a Virtual Machine

  

My last blog was about installing Google LiveAndroid on a virtual machine (VM). Today I’m blogging the release of Google Chrome OS beta which is easy to install on a VM using the ISO image.

I downloaded the ISO image from SoftPedia, created a new VM in VMware Player, mounted the ISO, and [...]

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 [...]

Veeam Monitor Captures My Attention

Veeam Monior is certainly the best monitoring software for VMware that I have ever evaluated. And, aside from it not being distributed as a virtual appliance, it’s worth the time for a simple install that requires a Windows server to host it.

What’s Veeam Monitor’s Value?

Want reports that are easy to customize and look professional, [...]

Free Tool – Veeam FastSCP For ESX and ESXi

So you just installed your first pair of VMware ESX or ESXi hosts and you’re wondering how you can move VM guest servers from host to host without vCenter. Well, here’s the answer – FastSCP. FastSCP lets you manage VM folders through a nice GUI interface. It’s not vCenter but it will do the job [...]

Step One – Start your VMware ESX Install by Creating a Checklist of Important Information

Step one in our step-by-step VM installation process is to make a pre-installation checklist with important information.

Before you even think about installing any software, make a checklist. The checklist will save you hours of frustration later on when the troubleshooting begins, which believe me, you will troubleshoot a lot while performing the simplest [...]