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VMware Fusion and Fusion Pro 5.0.3 – Maintenance Release

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After last week’s update for VMware Workstation 9.0.3 there has been an update for VMware Fusion users. VMware Fusion and Fusion Pro, the release 5.0.3. This release is also a maintenance release, which brings several fixes and new features, which one of theme is worth to mention directly here. It’s the support for large 3Tb […]

Guacamole – HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop

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Guacamole is an HTML 5 web application which enables you to access remote desktop via browser. It’s a HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop web application. There are no plugins or software needed on the client side and that’s the principal advantage over traditional remote access solution. Guacamole uses HTTP or HTTPS protocols only, so it’s ideal when wanting […]

VMware Horizon View Features Pack 1.0 – what it brings and what’s it’s good for?

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VMware Horizon View Features Pack 1.0 was the missing piece of software that I recently pointed out after the Horizon View release. The features pack was missing initially when Horizon View was released few weeks back.  In fact the real name is Horizon View Features Pack 1.0 and has 2 main components: HTML Access Web Portal […]

Nice Update – VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 (beta)

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VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1 supports Virtual Hardware version 9, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, Ubuntu 12.04 and RedHat 6.0. Also, support for EXT4 as a linux file system is supported. First to note, the software is still in beta, but available as a Free Download (VMware-converter-en-5.1.0-1023810.exe : File size:170 MB). Update: 24/06/2013 – Check out my […]

VMware Best Practices on NFS – get this new PDF

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This new whitepaper from VMware discusses best practices for design and deployments on NFS. Whether you’re using iSCSI or NFS, both protocol and storage devices must be correctly configured to obtain the best performance. In this whitepaper VMware Best Practices on NFS  are discussed. You’ll learn what’s the best ways to setup load balancing. If […]

Yes, the New RVTools 3.5 is out…. Download it -:)

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RVTools new version has been released by Rob de Veij at Robware.net. He kept pinging through his twitter account about his testing of the new version for few weeks and yesterday he released the final version of RVTools 3.5. It’s a tiny .NET application (4 Mb msi package) which installs in seconds and which offers […]

VMware Workstation 9.0.2 – maintenance release

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This is not a major update to VMware Workstation, but there are many bugfixes and minor updates in this VMware Workstation 9.0.2 release. Workstation 9 released several months back brought many useful new features and people who nests ESXi with Workstation should experience more smooth operation since release 9, because of the enhancements and improvements […]

VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack – Where it’s gone?

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After the VMware Horizon View 5.2 GA release, It seems that the two components which enables to leverage HTML 5 compatible browser to access virtual desktops in VMware View 5.2 did not made it into the GA release. Which components are those? It’s the components called VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack. The pack components […]