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Last year, Veeam launched the not-for-resale (NFR) promotion for VMware VCPs, VCIs and vExperts (VCAPs and VCDXs as well). This provides VMware community members 2 sockets of two popular Veeam products. This is a very successful program, but in case you haven’t heard, the VMware community can still have NFR licensing for Veeam Backup & Replication v5 and Veeam ONE.

There is only one guideline for this program:  An NFR license can only be used in non-production environment and for evaluation, demonstration and training purposes only.

These are the perfect tools for a VMware lab environment. Veeam Backup & Replication v5 is great for backup and restore capability. Plus, this offering of Veeam ONE includes three products: Veeam Monitor, Veeam Reporter and Veeam Business View which provide great visibility into the VMware environment.

Click here to apply for your licenses!

Source: http://www.veeam.com/blog/2-free-products-every-vmware-lab-must-have.html

With SugarSync, you can backup, sync, access and share all your files on-the-go, instantly and securely from any device including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry, and more. SugarSync matches the way you organize your files and folders. You can sync any file or folder from any of your computers and access those files and folders via your Personal Cloud.

DESKTOP
Windows 7
Windows Vista
Windows XP
Mac OSX
WEB
Internet Explorer 7.x
Internet Explorer 8.0.x
Chrome 8.0.x
Firefox 3.6.x
Safari 5.0.x
MOBILE
iPad
iPhone
BlackBerry
Windows Mobile
Android
Symbian
SugarSync Mobile Web

https://www.sugarsync.com/free/

The cornerstone of the Xangati VDI Dashboard is its performance health engine that analyzes the health of VDI in an unprecedented four microseconds. Relying on Xangati’s memory-driven architecture, the performance health of the VDI is being continuously monitored across a broad spectrum of performance metrics to the unrivaled scale of 250,000 objects (which can include desktops and clients). In contrast, other performance management architectures are database-driven and unable to keep apace of dynamic interactions to scale that are fundamental to VDI.

The output of Xangati’s performance health engine is a real-time health index that is linked to the health of every client, desktop, network link, host, VDI protocol and IT server that can impact VDI end–user experience. In real-time – as an object’s health shifts – the health index changes to reflect the urgency of the performance issue. Moreover, the performance shift will trigger a real-time alert, which is uniquely paired with a DVR-recording.

The DVR-recording will show exactly where the performance problem stems from and present contextual insights about what is driving the sub-optimal performance. For instance, a specific user community is seeing obvious delays in screen presentation due to a high latency network link. These DVR recordings capture issues that are often outside of a VDI vendor’s software framework and can be passed to the appropriate IT function, e.g. to the storage team when storage latency is at the heart of the performance issue.

http://xangati.com/vdi_dashboard/

http://d4vu5i9co7ynd.cloudfront.net/VDI_Dashboard.mov

VMworld 2010 Copenhagen - At the labs with Xangati

Just as VMware’s virtual machine technology decouples the operating system from hardware, VMware ThinApp breaks the bond between software applications and operating systems to deliver the same benefits of flexibility, portability and isolation.  ThinApp’s agentless/serverless approach enables corporate IT and ISVs to plug into existing Application Management systems to deliver untethered applications across a variety of similar OS versions (NT, XP, Vista) to enable applications to move with users as needed while complying with corporate directives.

Mightycare has released a cool free to use tool which is able to see the anatomy of a ThinApp package. With MCS-ThinView you’re able to explore the contents of a ThinApp package. It also enables you to Register, Unregister, Install or Uninstall these packages.

Features

• Information about the Package
• Register / Unregister ThinApp Package
• Install / Uninstall ThinApp Package
• Shortcut List
• Restive Virtual Registry entries
• Retrieve the virtual File system
• Retrieve the contents of the package.ini
• Retrieve the  icon
  
  ntpro.nl's MCS-ThinView photoset
  http://www.mightycare.de/downloads/mcs_thinview

VMware Labs presents its latest fling Thinapped vSphere Client. This fling uses VMware ThinApp to package vSphere Client into a single portable EXE giving you instant access to your virtual infrastructure from any computer.

Run vSphere client 4.1 in a snap. No install, just download the EXE and double-click. Place the ThinApped vSphere client on any network share and it will automatically stream to any Windows PC with no installation, agents, drivers, or specialized servers required. Carry ThinApped vSphere client and your customization on USB stick and now your vSphere client is available on the GO!

Be one of the first one to try, rate and comment - http://labs.vmware.com/flings/thinapp-vpshere.

The world of monitoring tools is changing fast - after last week’s release of VMware Operations - it’s now VKernel’s new Performance Analyzer who makes its debut. The VKernel Performance Analyzer monitors, diagnoses and resolves performance issues in virtual environments.  Performance Analyzer compliments monitoring and alarming capability in vCenter, it can not only diagnose problems but also resolve them. I’ve created a short demo video of the Performance Analyzer which is bundled in the VKernel vOperations Suite or vOPS 3.0. 

 The audio is a bit crappy because my headset isn’t working anymore. :-(