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 The Non Traditional Way to clone from Linux/Ubuntu Desktop/Laptop to VM  VM = VMware Workstation. Reason :  I tried CloneZilla or Traditional DD commands. it was taking lot of time and was confusing. The method shown here is working for me. It may or may not for you. Steps :  1 - Create same version OS VirtualMachine on VMware workstation. this will create : fat32 - boot ext4 - OS image partition. 2 - Go to the system you want to clone ( having same version ) boot from live cd or USB boot into live cd. Reason : we need to unmount the HDD/ partition. use Gparted copy the ext4 partition from Laptop/desktop and paste it on the pendrive partition. i had created ext4 partition on the pendrive. so i did ext4 to ext4 . 3 - Boot VirtualMachine with live cd , copy the same disk ext4 files to the ext4  partition on the VM OS, by booting into live version on VM.not on regular boot. To boot into live version , you need to use few softwares 1 - Live CD as iso or live cd. 2 ...
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VMware - Tools for Monitoring VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V - Part 6

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8

Tools for Monitoring VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V - Part 6

26 - YUMI
About YUMI :

Yumi provides you with a list of pre-programmed Linux Distributions and Utilities that are available for multi-boot USB creation.

First Choose any of those tools from a drop down menu.
Second step is to point to the ISO file so YUMI can extract the necessary files and copy them to the particular folder on the USB stick.



Features :
YUMI has almost all distros of Linux but also antivirus, system tools and other utilities which can’t be put into particular category but shall be on every administrator’s USB stick toolbox.

Dowload - Click Here :



How to Create Multiboot USB Stick With Veeam Recovery ISOs for Different Systems : Click Here


27 - V-Front Online Depot for ESXi software :
About V-Front Online Depot for ESXi software :
Allows to use PowerCLI or VUM to install Add-ons and patches to your ESXi hosts.

Dowload - Click Here

28 - VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
About VMware vCenter Converter Standalone - Click Here : http://www.vladan.fr/vmware-vcenter-converter-standalone-5-0-final-available/


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Use converter to do P2V conversions,

Features - Click Here

- Adjust Virtual disk size during V2V conversions
- Change from Thick to thin
- See how to shrink VMDK size in my post here.  http://www.vladan.fr/reduce-vmdk-size/

- You can check my post on How-to disable the SSL to speed up the conversion process.
If you have many VMs to convert, want to speed up the conversions by disabling SSL via script.
Click Here

- From v. 5.0 of Converter, there is the possibility of alignment of converted VMs on a destination datastore.
- Converter 6.0 supports vSphere 6.0.

Dowload - Click Here : https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/evalcenter?p=converter

( You need to Login and Register to download )
Download - Cold clone ISO - Click Here


29 - VMware Player :
About VMware Player :
Doing some demos or testing.

It lacks lot of features from VMware Workstation like snapshots, connection to the vSphere infrastructure and more.


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Features :
- Very lightweight and handy
- Unity - You can have your VM in the background and the windows and programs executing inside this VM are “in front”. The unity mode is just signaled by an red icon on the window. You will not see the VM player windows floating on your desktop, but the applications.

Dowload - Click Here

30 - RVTools
About RVTools :
Quick inventory can be done .




Features :
- Small msi package .After installation can list information about cpu, memory, disks, nics, cd-rom, floppy drives, snapshots, VMware tools, ESX hosts and datastores.
- Useful Tool to quickly gather different informations about your infrastructure.

Dowload - Click Here


For More information Click Here

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 7 - Part 8

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