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I’ve now seen posts from both Scott Lowe and Rick Scherer about Veeam’s free holiday gift for VMware Admins that will be available Dec 22. To make sure you get your copy you need to register at http://www.veeam.com/xmas/default.html. Scott and Rick both got an email announcing the free tool. Read their posts to see the whole email, but what caught my attention was

We’ll be unveiling what the new free tool is on Dec. 22 – everyone who registers will automatically receive a download link that day via e-mail. This holiday gift is marked “do not open until Dec. 22.”

The email also mentions the 50,000 plus downloads of Veeam’s FastSCP which is their currently available and popular free tool for ESX file management.

If you follow Veeam’s Doug Hazelman on Twitter you might have seen his tweet from earlier today that possibly has let the “cat out of Santa’s bag”.

Doug, I imagine that was quite a beta test.

VMware Fusion currently has a $30 mail in rebate for customers that switch from competitive virtualization products to VMware Fusion before December 31, 2008.

Order your copy of Fusion today from VM /ETC’s Tellepal link to get a 10% price discount as well.

Information about the program from VMware:

$30 Competitive Upgrade Rebate

Through December 31, 2008, customers who purchase VMware Fusion with proof of ownership of a competing product are eligible for a $30 mail in rebate.

With the launch of VMware Fusion 2, which now supports the importation of both Parallels and Virtual PC 7.0-based virtual machines, there’s no better time to upgrade to the most mature, stable virtualization platform on the Mac.

Information on obtaining the mail in rebate from VMware:

Where did you buy VMware Fusion?

If you bought your copy of Fusion from:

• VMware.com
• MacZone, PC Zone
• MacMall, PC Mall
• MacConnection, PC Connection
• CDW

Submit for your rebate online here for the Competitive Rebate.

Or:

If you purchased from:

• Amazon.com
• Apple Store, Apple.com
• Buy.com
• Microcenter
• Office Max
• Office Depot
• Or other retailer

Please refer to the VMware Fusion product page at the retailer’s site from whom you purchased.

I just received word from Duncan over at Yellow-bricks.com that the same Cyber Monday deal code, “CyberMondayDeal”, can be used for a 25% discount on VMware Workstation 6.5 as well as 50% discount on VMware Fusion 2.0! (Sorry, I forgot to include a link in my first post!)

I’m not sure how long the VMware Workstation deal will last, so hurry and get your copy today. Use my Telepal referal link (in the right column or at the end of this post) and be sure to enter the promo code above. It is a case sensitive code.

Go here to get the discounts!

Twitter may seem like a waste of time to some (my wife included!), but there are definitely times when following virtualization bloggers and experts on Twiter pay off. For example, if you are following VMware teamfusion you would already know about the special VMware Fusion sale happening this Monday, 12.01.08 only. Since it is so close to the infamous Thanksgiving Black Friday retail sales, I guess you could call it a VMware Black Monday? For those of you that don’t use Twitter check out Twitter / vmwarefusion: Pssst! For 24 hours on Mon …

Oh, sign up for your own Twitter account and start following me at while you are at it!

The folks over at Hyper9 are still looking for qualified companies to participate in their private beta program of their soon to be released search based virtual infrastructure management tool. Check out my previous post about the tool’s great features and to see some screen shots of it in action.

If you are interested in obtaining your own invitation to the beta program fill out the form at the end of this post. Your will receive a confirmation email with further instructions. Your contact information will be forwarded to Hyper9 so that they know you were referred by VM /ETC, but otherwise your information will be kept private. If enough VM /ETC readers sign up I get free pizza!

The current beta invitations are available until midnight December 5, so sign up now!

VM /ETC has signed up for the VMware Referral Program. If you could use an additional 10% discount on VMware Fusion or Workstation click the badge below. You’ll also have the option to purchase VMware Virtual Infrastructure editions in packages that offer 33% discounts on the individually priced components of VI3.

Hey Citrix, Microsoft, or any other virtualization vendors: VM /ETC offers equal opportunity referrals

Save 10% on select VMware products!

I will also keep a copy of this badge in the right sidebar of the site until the promotion is over.

Thanks for supporting vmetc.com!

I’m not sure this still works. I haven’t tried it and the post is 4 weeks old at the time of this writing.

Imagine my joy to discover an error on the VMware online store that allows me to get VMware fusion digital download for half price. If interested, do the following:

For the instructions with screenshots read the whole post at  Half price VMware Fusion « Alt-Click.

Let me know how it turns out. LOL.