AVG rescue CD from Grisoft. Czech company AVG is well known for their antivirus/antispyware solutions. Besides the Free Antivirus solution they provide as an installable version – The AVG 9 Free, there is another tool. It’s an ISO image you can burn to a CD and scan and clean your computer before your Operating system […]
Free disaster recovery and P2V with Clonezilla
What is Clonezilla? Like filezilla – a very popular opensource FTP client and server applications, Clonezilla is a free software which I’ll test sonner or later…and which can P2V your physical server into virtual environement running under VMware vSphere 4 for exemple…. Clonezilla helps you to to do bare metal backup and recovery. There are […]
Troubleshooting the installation of VMware tools
Windows installer error prevents to install VMware Tools. The other day I was just struggling to install vMware Tools in XP pro VM. The VM was imported into my vCenter via Third party Acronis Image, but I don’t think that it was an Acronis problem in any way since I’ve done some P2V through Acronis […]
Veeam just released Fast SCP 3 compatible with W7 and 2008R2
Veeam just released a new version of very popular free SCP client FAST SCP 3. This software is very popular and the Windows 7 compatibility will make happy more than one (including me 😎 ). So it’s a great news to announce to all my regular readers. I followed Free SCP since the early days […]
Free RDP plug-in to manage your Virtual Infrastructure running under vSphere 4
Free tool from Xtravirt – RDP connection Plug-in. Xtravirt is know from the past providing great PDF tutorials for configuring VMware workstation to be able to run ESX Server as a nested VM. (Fyi This step is no longer necessary in VMware Workstaion 7). Or providing little script to download all PDF’s from VMware website […]
Free tool for Partitionning VMs !
There is a new free tool available from Paragon Software. If you played already with Partition Magic in the past or Acronis Disk director, you know that those tools are not free… But this one is. At least for first 5000 downloads… 👿 Linux/DOS bootable environment that contains fully functional Partition Manager 10 Professional. It’s […]
Vkernel’s new free tool VM Stats – in video
VKernel Free Utility presentation Video. Vkernel new freeware utility which helps VMware admins gather different statistics from their vCenter. You can check VM Stats, and download it here. The product you’ll download is in EXE format. After execution, you’ll end up with a Virtual Machine in vMware Workstation format. You must then use VMware Converter […]
Free tool from Quest Software to restore objects deleted from AD
I just discovered this free tool from Quest Software by surfing the web, and I Think that it’s quite interesting to share this with ESX Virtualization readers… This tools is freeware and can be downloaded from Quest Software here. After the installation (I did install it directly on my DC..), you fire up the application. […]
RVTools demo video
New version of RVTools is available. I decided to do a little video to show my readers that this little application is really cool and easy to master. With that said, you can download the latest build from Rob’s website here and also there is nice and handy documentation in PDF available too. I talked […]
Google Chrome OS available for testing in a virtual machine
Google Chrome OS (first compilations) is available as a VMware Image There has been some first binaries released from the new upcoming Google Chrome OS. And some people compiled that binaries and transformed that to the VMware Image, so you have the possibility to run Google Chrome OS as a VM in VMware Player or […]