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The GestaltIT Tech Field Day (TFD) is the gift that keeps on giving! From now until the end of the year (2009), VM /ETC readers can use the promotional code BRAMBLEY when buying a Drobo from Data Robotics and receive a discount.

For those that don’t already know about Drobo storage and the BeyondRaid technology, I posted about the Data Robotics TFD presentation a few weeks ago.

When you are ready to purchase just go to the Data Robotics store. The VM /ETC reader code is good until the end of the year (2009) and offers the following discounts:

Drobo $50 off <> Drobo S $75 off <> DroboPro $150 off <> DroboElite $350 off

Just enter BRAMBLEY in the Promotional Code field when placing your order.

For the record, I have not received any compensation for this post nor will I receive compensation from the use of this code. Enjoy and Happy Holidays!

Back in December Scott Herold posted on the VMGuru.com web site that free chapters from the popular book “VMware Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design Guide” would be available for download every 2 weeks. Eventually the entire book would also be available as a down loadable .pdf. That’s great news, but as of this writing I could not find any of the chapters on the page of downloads available from the VMGuru.com site.

Scott, Mike, Ron, consider this post a reminder that it’s mid January now (I know you guys have nothing else going on ), and hopefully this gives you some added promotion and excitement about your book. I’m sure a lot of VMware Admins will want personal copies.

Read Scott’s original post  titled Free Chapters Available Starting in January.

“Ron, Mike, and I have decided that starting in 2009, we will be giving out 2 free chapters of the VMware Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design Guide every 2 weeks.  I am still in the process of collecting the source DOC and PDF files from the Publisher, but as of right now we are anticipating the first two chapters to be availabe during the first week of January. “

There are 0 comments on Scott’s post so maybe he thinks no one was listening? Help me show him we are all waiting!

If you can’t wait for the downloads then Read the rest of this entry »

updated 01.23.09 – The beta registration period has ended. Thanks to all the readers that signed up!

VM /ETC readers have one last opportunity to get an advanced look at the Hyper9 browser based virtual infrastructure management tool before it is released to the public. According to the Beta newsletter I received, the product launch is scheduled for sometime in February. The newsletter also mentioned additional product functionality, savings for beta testers, and changes to the Hyper9 Community web pages.

Once again I am providing an automated form for interested readers to sign up for a copy. Filling out the form with a valid email address will result in an auto reply containing additional instructions about the program and a link to register. The beta registration form will only be available until midnight January 22.

updated 01.17.08 – I have moved the sign up form to it’s own page. Please click here to fill in the form.

I also discovered that the auto reply was not working properly for all the form entries that have been collected. I manually forwarded all the applicants directly to Hyper9, so if you submitted your information but never received an email reply I have been informed that Hyper9 will now be following up with you.

For more information and screen shots of this awesome VI management tool check out my previous post First look at Hyper9 beta for VM /ETC readers. or check out these additonal Hyper9 links:

• Community
• Hyper9 How-To Videos
• Hyper9.com

free Veeam tool unwrapped

The VMware administrators holiday gift from Veeam has been revealed. As promised, I received an email this morning announcing that a new free version of Veeam Monitor 3.02 is available for download. A description of the tool can be found on the products web page:

“Veeam Monitor is an easy to deploy, framework-independent VMware monitoring solution that was created expressly to help you better manage the health and performance of your VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3) environment. Veeam Monitor provides support for troubleshooting and issue resolution, as well as trend reporting and capacity planning – equipping you to proactively manage ESX / ESXi infrastructure system health and performance today and over the long term.”

The product’s Release Notes reveal the limitations of the free version:

Veeam Monitor 3.0.2 features a new free functionality mode which is automatically enabled if you install the product without a license, or if your your license expires. Veeam Monitor Free Edition has the following limitations compared to the full version:

• Performance history lookup is limited to 24 hours
• Number of alarms is limited to ten
• Performance and trend reporting is disabled
• Alarm modeling is disabled
• Guest OS process management functionality is disabled.

Veeam Monitor requires a SQL 2005 database or installs SQL 2005 Express by default. It is my understanding Read the rest of this entry »

what could it be?

The more readers handle the free VMware administrator mystery present from Veeam the more the wrapping paper is getting torn. All that present shaking and examining trying to guess what it could be has been bad for the intended surprise by the folks at Veeam, or has it? Honestly, I have no inside information, and I am just as stumped as the rest. I do have a guess I’ll share, however.

First, to see a full size image of the present with the latest rips in the wrapping go to boche.net’s post Further unwrapping of the free tool from Veeam.

As for my guess on what it could be – well, based on the fact that the latest paper rip reveals some monitoring information and that Veeam recently purchased nworks which is known for it’s system monitoring tools, Read the rest of this entry »

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.