Eric Sloof

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.

Map you’re VMFS folder of your VMware ESX Server as a Windows network drive with SftpDrive. The SFTP file system network enables all your back-up  and edit applications. Don't drag and drop. Don't transfer back and forth. Just use your VMware ESX Server files directly from your applications. SftpDrive network-enables all your Windows applications by enabling you to map your VMware ESX Server  as a network drive. Save and edit files directly on your ESX server.  Just imagine how easy your backup will become when you use the VCB snapshot tool to unlock the VMDK files…

When you are going to build your own VMware application you properly want to use the fancy VMware icons. But how do you get them ? Well the answers is simple just grab them from the following list. I don’t know what the VMware policy on using these icons is, so you should ask them first. When you are interested in the VMware Workstation 6 icons you should take a look at this website or download this zip file.

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The latest follow up to the well received VI3 PatchDownloader tool is now a command line executable meaning that it can be scripted and scheduled as a routine task. Additional functionality means that it is now easier than ever to keep up to date with VMware® ESX patches.

Scott Herold, Ron Oglesby, and Mike Laverick have finally gotten to a point where they are extremely close to having all first draft writing of the new VI3: Advanced Technical Design Guide completed.  They are anticipating that this will be completed and off to editors towards the end of the first week of July.

http://www.vi3book.com/

The project to disconnect all the CD’s from all the VM’s with one click of a button is finished so I thought it’s time for a new project. Let’s build a VDI connection broker with an embedded console for the XP VM’s. The first thing I needed to do is figure out how I could embed a console view into my VB application. After some searching in the VMware forums I ended up with one or two posts that weren’t much of a help. I decided to take a closer look at the console that is used in web access.  When you logon to web access and select a VM, you can get a console in your Internet Explorer. Let’s find out what happens in the background. Log on to Web Access : https://vcserver/ui

Richard Garsthagen over at Run-Virtual.com released another killer app. VCplus is program that adds functionality to your Virtual Center environment! It allows you to see what the actual disk usage is within your Virtual Machines, Easily see if a Virtual Machine has a snapshot and what the size of the snapshot files are and it allows you to sync the VM’s DNS name to the Display Name.

During the TSX event in Nice there was a lot of speculation about new features in the next version of VMware ESX server. Mike Laverick  managed squeeze some comments out of Yu-Shen Ng.  And the past few weeks more and more news leaked out. Let’s take a look at the rumors and the facts. The release date of version ESX 3.1 will be around the end of October 2007. In this new version there will be better redundancy for iSCSI. Data replication in the kernel and filtering by third party apps will be possible. Besides authentication with AD, LDAP is going to be supported. When you logon to WebAcces there will be more possibility’s like creation of VM’s and controlling the resource pools and clusters. Different CPU family type’s within the Intel brand and connected internal switches are going to be supported in combination with VMotion. And last but not least VCB file level back-up for Linux VM’s.