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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 4

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 4

16 - vCenter Support Assistant :
About vCenter Support Assistant  :
To create and fill support requests.




Features :
- To generate and collect logs with direct upload capability.
- vCenter support assistant 5.1 is available is virtual appliance, which gets deployed from OVF file.

Two types of support requests are available through the product:
- Support requests
- Feature requests (for products you have entitlements)

Dowload - Click Here




 For Desktops or VDI:

17 - Free Backup Tool for Desktop OS :
About Free Backup Tool for Desktop OS  :
If you look for a tool which provide some kind of central management console, this is not the tool. It’s rather simple tool for few individual desktops.

Features :
- To do a full, incremental or differential images of the underlying OS.

Dowload - Click Here

18 - VDI calculator :
About VDI calculator :
VDI calculator is used for VDI projects for sizing and calculating VDI environments. This tool which was previously Flash based online tool, can be now executed offline, without internet connection.



Provided as a free tool online, by Andre Leibovici –  Click Here 

Features :
- It helps to do a calculations concerning the sizing of your VMware View Infrastructure.
- The VDI calculator is targeted for VMware View designs, however you can use the tool  for any VDI running on top of vSphere infrastructure.
- It includes the metrics for VMware Storage Accelerator – Content Read Based Cache (CRBC).

Dowload - Click Here

19 - Xangati For vSphere (Not Free ) :
About Xangati For vSphere - Click Here



Full_Screen

Features :
- Unique capability of real time monitoring.
- Virtual appliance for one ESX(i) host,
- You can deploy one xangati per host if you wish.
- Possibility to fully configure of What you See on the dashboard, even if the appliance comes up with 3 different modes already pre-configured.
- DVR recording feature . In the paid version this recording starts automatically when a performance hit will trigger a real-time alert.
- This feature can also be coupled with VMware vCenter alarms.

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20 - Starwind Virtual SAN :
About Starwind Virtual SAN :
Free version (limited to 2 hosts).



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Features :
- Data Deduplication
- Unlimited storage capacity
- Unlimited number of supported concurrent iSCSI connections.
- Full Production use is allowed.
- Caching –  a multi-level cache mechanism can use gigabytes of RAM and converts it into extremely fast level 1 write-back or write-through cache.
- Continuous Data Protection and Snapshots that are completely compatible with VSS (Volume Snapshot Services).
- iSCSI boot is fully supported with iSCSI boot capable NIC.

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*How-to setup Starwind Virtual SAN in Free Hyper-V 2012 R2:
Part 1
Part 2

For More information Click Here

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

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