For a recent project I needed to provide access to a vmware virtual machine image and the tool of choice was VMWare workstation pro. If you haven’t used it – the product enables you to develop, test, demonstrate, and deploy software by running multiple x86-based Windows, Linux, and other operating systems simultaneously on the same […]
Sophos have made available a free for home use Unified Threat Management appliance here The details they give about the product are Overview Our Free Home Use Firewall is a fully equipped software version of the Sophos UTM firewall, available at no cost for home users – no strings attached. It features full […]
This app claims the most user density per dollar and supports up to 100 users sessions per OS – to give a cost effective VDI solution. The idea is that by reducing the number of hardware hosts and virtual machines required this reduces the overall costs. The product supports 32 and 64 bit O/S including […]
Another release of the Trilead Backup tool brings new features which are more than welcome. Although I deal primarily with VMWare and relatively little with Hyper-V due to its lack of penetration in the local market – its good to see improved support for it. Support for Hyper-V 2012 server File level restore for VHDX […]
A recent clear out of old vms had an impact on the performance of an sbs 2011 virtual machine. The plan had been to remove the old vms and free up some space on the esx. However it deletion process left behind several large files from rather old vms and when the server disk size […]
In the second outage in around two weeks Microsoft’s flagship web suite Office 365 has suffered loss of service. Thats really being out of Office ! Whats causing it is yet unreported but the issue reinforces the fact that businesses and organisations need to think long and hard about putting all of their eggs in […]
This tip relates to a very specific problem which is the creation of Ubuntu desktop virtual machine (32bit) on vmware vsphere client on a samsung 200B windows 7 laptop. The problem is that when trying to switch to the vm for the start of installation – movements of the scroll pad or external mouse are […]
Free download of the VMTurbo Operations Manager – Community Edition here The VMTurbo Operations Manager – enables you to: Gain visibility into your entire infrastructure See and identify problems in real time Generate performance and efficiency reports It is the only FREE real-time performance monitoring solution without limitations of how broadly it can be deployed […]
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