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Installing ESXi / vSphere version 4 and more

Tom Finnis, Technical Operations Manager for Help4IT, has recently written some excellent articles on VMware vSphere and ESX over at the Petri IT Knowledgebase. 

Here are some of the VMware-related articles that he wrote:

• How to Set Up Your Own VMware ESXi4 Server
• An Intro to Virtualization with VMware vSphere 4
• Using the vSphere 4.0 Client to Manage ESXi 4.0
• ESXi 4.0 – Installing In “Embedded” Mode

Also, check out the VMware vSphere Training from Train Signal! This new course covers VMware ESX Server and the replacement for the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Suite – vSphere.

Also, did you know that VMware ESXi is FREE? You can register at VMware.com to obtain a FREE ESXi 4.0 download and license key for as many hosts as you would like.

Free E-Books from Greg Shields

If you’ve been around Microsoft technologies long enough, likely you have heard the name Greg Shields. I was talking with Greg this week because he will be speaking at VMworld 2009 and he pointed out that he has, on the Internet a long list of free e-books. These e-books cover things like:

• Network Security
• Active Directory
• Virtualization
• Application Performance
• Windows 2008 Infrastructure

Who doesn’t love to get something free, right?

Click here to checkout Greg’s free E-Book collection

10 Free Networking Tools from NetQoS

I admit it, I am a sucker for free tools. Many times, I end up seeing that the free tools are junk but I was pleasantly surprised when i checked the 10 free networking tools from NetQos.

Besides the Network Rockstar Challenge, NetQos has quietly released 10 free networking tools in their Network Estimation Toolkit. They are:

• Latency
• Subnet
• Ethernet
• Etherchannel
• Link Speed
• Multicast
• Hex to Decimal
• OUI Lookup
• Cable
• Canonical

You can try out the Network Estimation Toolkit for yourslef.

Free Network Security Scanner from GFI LanGuard

Like free tools? Who doesn’t! GFI, the makers of the very popular network security scanner, are now offering a free version LANguard!

LANguard performs:

• Vulnerability scanning
• Patch Management
• Network Auditing
• And More…

Download the FREE GFI LANguard (5 IP Edition) Here!