For some time now I have VMware View running and with the Windows 7 BETA being available I tried to add Windows 7 to VMware View. Since I already created a VM with Windows 7 on my laptop in Vmware Workstation, I imported that VM in Virtual Center and saved some work.

After the conversion/import [...]

Just received an email with the following announcement:

Veeam just launched FastSCP 3.0 – a new version of the most popular free tool in the VMware community, used by more than 60,000 VMware administrators worldwide.

Version 3.0 fully supports ESXi and the ESXi free edition.
Other key features and benefits in FastSCP 3.0:

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After the two products SearchMyVM and CompareMyVM Vkernel released another free tool called SnapshotMyVM. SnapshotMyVM is a tool to document your VM’s.

Here’s a sampling of the information you can get with SnapshotMyVM:

VM name Guest operating system Host hardware type, manufacturer, and version VM resource (CPU, memory, storage, network) configuration VM resource [...]

Microsoft released the BETA of SCVMM2008 R2. Another step closer to the competition.

The following significant new features are included in VMM 2008 R2 Beta:

Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta Hyper-V host management
Enhanced migration including Live and SAN migration in and out of clusters
Multiple VMs per LUN using Clustered share volumes
Hot add of VM storage

To enroll the BETA go to Connect

Technorati Tags: Microsoft,Virtualization,SCVMM,BETA,Release

Vkernel announced that their product Vkernel Modeler has reached the Release Candidate state. Vkernel Modeler is a tool to simulate different scenarios regarding changes or additions to your VMware ESX data center.

So with Vkernel Modeler you can predict the impact changes in your virtual environment will have on performance.

You [...]