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The Non Traditional Way to clone from Linux/Ubuntu Desktop/Laptop to VM VMware Workstation.

 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 - Boot order setup optio

VMware - Tools for Monitoring VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V - Part 2

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Tools for Monitoring VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V - Part 2

6 - Snapwatcher for VMware :
About Snapwatcher for VMware : Snapshot detection for VMware infrastructure.

- Monitor snapshots across VMware infrastructure – can connect to multiple vCenters at a time to give you an overview on snapshots usage, size, history
- Gain precious space on your storage systems – Provides Top 5 by size, to find the most space taking snapshots from within your infrastructure.
- Fixing Broken Snapshots – deletes broken, old and invalid snapshots with single click to gain space.
- Delete VM Snapshots within the main console – several vCenter servers or individual ESXi hosts can be manage with single pane of glass.



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7 - All-Flash VSAN Configuration Utility
About All-Flash VSAN Configuration Utility  : Tag/untag flash devices as capacity tier which is normally a manual operation via CLI or RVC.



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Features :
- Tag/untag a devices by grouping and selecting similar devices together across your cluster. - Real time saver even for smaller clusters. If you have 2 groups of 7 SSDs which you want to tag as capacity tier, in 4 hosts,  then you must manually tag 56 devices. Phew!!!

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8 - ESXi Free Web Client Interface
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- Manage ESXi host via web client without the need of vCenter server.
- ESXi Free Web client interface (HTML 5 based) allows to manage a host without the need of the legacy C++ Windows client.
- The utility is bundled as a vib and can be installed on ESXi host via SSH (via Putty for example) without the need to reboot the host.

Features :
- VM operations (Power on, off, reset, suspend, etc).
- Creating a new VM, from scratch or from OVF/OVA (limited OVA support)
- Configuring NTP on a host
- Displaying summaries, events, tasks and notifications/alerts,
- Providing a console to VMs,
- Configuring host networking,
- Configuring host advanced settings,
- Configuring host services

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9 - PoshPAIG ( PowerShell Audit Installation GUI ) :
About   :
To Audit installed patches, Install patches remotely. The possibility to export the results to CSV files is also included.

Features :
- Do PowerShell Audit and Patch Installation on windows server systems, where you need to gather a list of patches deployed etc.
- You can also remote – reboot the managed servers.
- Services Reporting for non-running services set to Automatic
- MultiThreading of operations (Supports running 20 jobs at one time) without UI freezing up.
- Add multiple computers with Add Server button using comma to separate each server
- Select multiple computers in server list and perform operations on only those servers
- Able to reboot systems with a monitored reboot
- Ping sweep of all systems in server list
- View windowsupdate.log on an individual server
- View installed updates on servers
- Remotely run wuauclt /detectnow on servers
- Generate host list of serversPowerShell Audit and Patch Installation
- Sort columns
- Notes column to track running operations
- Error report

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10 - Veeam Endpoint Backup :
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The product is free and will stay free.

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- Destined for physical PCs/ laptops.
- Can do a volume or file level backups.
- The restore of Full PC/ laptop or individual files is possible.
- Supports Windows 10, the version 1.1 also adds resizing of partition when restoring option and Universal restore (to dissimilar hardware) options enhancements.
- It is destined to protect physical computers/laptops by creating image level backups (note: can also do file level backup, but is slower) where the 1st backup is Full and the next backups are incremental.



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