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Ultimate-P2V (fix-vmscsi) is a free plug-in that allows you to clone a physical machine to virtual machine - and perform the neccessary "system reconfiguration" required to make it bootable. Without this tool or a commerical P2V tool the virtual machine would just give a "blue screen of death"

"A physical server needs drivers to talk to it's hardware. A virtualized server, in essence, does the same thing. VMware presents new hardware to allow the virtual machine to talk to it's hypervisor. Think of the driver issue in a P2V migration like removing a video card and installing a new one. The drivers and hidden hardware are still there just in case you feel like popping the video card back in. A P2V will still have all of the old hardware in the virtual machine. Don't forget about services that physical servers used, namely HP server management services."

"Use tmutil to take control of Time Machine in Mountain Lion"

In-depth list of VMware snapshots, how they work, and how to fix errors with them in various ways.

Test build for Android-x86 2.2 (Froyo-x86) on virtual machine. We are glad to announce a test iso image of froyo-x86 for vm (virtual machine) target is uploaded to the download server.

"Look no further. I've created a collaboration of, yet again, FREE TOOLS for virtual machines within your VMware environment. All of the tools in this package were pooled together for performing advanced tasks to optimize performance, reclaim lost space, and clean up your virtual machine. The goal of this project was to mount the ISO to your VM and run the scripts or tools that are packaged. Of course not all of these tools will run from a VM, but most can."

Information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts

"User Profile Wizard is a workstation migration tool that will join your machine to a domain, and share your original user profile with your new domain logon so that you can carry on using all your existing data, and keep the same settings that you've always had. By using the User Profile Wizard command line interface and the User Profile Wizard Deployment Kit you can build a scalable, enterprise solution to migrate tens of thousands of workstations." HT to Angela Creason (@creason) for the link!

Customize Default Windows 8. Start Screen for all Machine Users. Allows user to change default screen and doesn't require use of group policy.

"Thinware vBackup™ is an enterprise grade backup solution for virtual infrastructure that can be easily implemented in any environment." VMware virtual machine backup, similar to Veeam in concept but Free option (although much fewer features). May be useful in lab scenarios or very low-budget environments.

"By using (included) Eventtriggers.exe (in Server 2003), you can automatically start a batch file or VBS script which performs a custom action or captures useful information. You can also use a script to perform correction actions on the machine,  preventing the problem from reoccurring.  Sometimes you just need to be notified when certain events are created in the Event Viewer, so we can use a script to send an e-mail alert. For example, you can create a trigger that monitors the event logs for low disk space events and if such events occur, you can run a script that removes any temporary or unnecessary files to resolve the low disk space condition, and/or send an e-mail alert telling you about it."

I re-logged into the machine and found that they are not in place still. I surprised and made relogin again, this time they mapped. Finally after applying multiple tests like this, I came to a conclusion that, I have below two problems…  1) Drive mapping is not happening at every attempt  2) Background processing of drive mapping is not working"

"Simple Network Tester's agents run on PCs located at key locations. You command them to send live test data through your network when you need it.  Run tests from your office using Simple Network Tester's user-friendly web pages.  Monitor the health of your network just by clicking a few links." Tests jitter to simulate VoIP calls and has a free command-line version to download. $29 per company after 15-day trial.