VMware

Peter van den Bosch over at PQR has created a nice PDF document. The Virtualization capacity sizing and planning solutions feature comparison matrix. This matrix compares the features of the industry’s most popular virtualization sizing and planning products.

Manfred Meier over at ESXGuide has released a new version of the ESX Manager 2.1. The features are :

Virtual Center independent
Keeps track of Virtual Machine Host Registration, Migrations and Status
Manage Virtual Machine Configuration
Display and work in the Virtual Machine Console
Kill Virtual Machine Process (if the VM can't be powered off)
Rename Virtual Disks of registered Virtual Machines
Move Virtual Disks and keep the disk attached to the Virtual Machine
Virtual Machine Registration, Start , Restart , Reset, Power Off, Suspend
Extend Virtual Disks
View-Search-Filter Logfiles on the ESX Host.
Define and save custom SSH commands with Parameter handling
Publish and share custom SSH commands with other ESX Administrators

Veeam Configurator is a Windows application that handles multiple ESX Servers simultaneously. It reports on and allows you to configure the following subsystems:

- Remote root access
- Time synchronization (NTP)
- Patch level (reporting only in this version)

In addition, it allows you to perform diagnostics and run a custom script on multiple ESX Servers (e.g. all servers in a cluster).

When you want to use SftpDrive in combination with your standard back-up software you have to find some way to unlock the flat.vmdk file. Well there is a way and it’s staring you right in the face. The only problem is it isn’t well documented, so it will cost some extra time to figure out how it works. The basis for the unlocking mechanism is the following list of files:

09-03-2007  10:22         827.392 libeay32.dll
09-03-2007  10:22         159.744 ssleay32.dll
09-03-2007  10:29         8.785.920 types.dll
09-03-2007  10:29         1.171.456 vcbSnapshot.exe
09-03-2007  10:29         1.183.744 vcbVmName.exe
09-03-2007  10:29         1.626.112 vmacore.dll
09-03-2007  10:29         1.097.728 vmomi.dll

Continue reading "VMware Consolidated Backup unlocked" »

Create your own/edit existing Virtual Machine to play with VMWare (R) Player or other compatible virtualization software.
Manage your virtual hardware settings, set new virtual hardware, including new virtual disks and attach hard disks to VMWare virtual machine. With MakeVM you may even attach your USB flash drives as physical disks for virtual machine that is not works with VMWare virtual machine management software. You can get your trail copy here.

UFS Explorer software is the powerful, comprehensive and yet easy of use application for Data Access and Data Recovery it can mount VMware VMDK files. It is designed to give you simple alternative way to access or recover your data. With UFS Explorer you can read-only (in non-destructive way) access data on partitions of different Operation Systems: Windows, Linux, BSD, MacOS (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, UFS, UFS2, HFS, HFS+); different types of Storages: most Windows OS-pluggable disk drives, including PATA/SATA disks, SCSI drives, USB storages (flash, digital devices, external hard disks), RAID arrays (even disassembled), image files of these storages, as well as virtual storages, created by Virtualization Software of leading vendors: VMWare, Microsoft, Parallels. Along with own alternative data access engine, UFS Explorer products has extended functions to recover your lost data due to software/hardware faults, file deletion, disk format, disk re-partitioning or virus attack. The software suits even to Professionals in Data Recovery and gives comprehensive tool set for Data Access, Files Undelete, lost partitions recovery, disk backup and RAW, 'Ultimate Data Recovery': the last resort in recovering data from severely corrupted partitions, basing on set of heuristic analysis and signature-based algorithms.