When you use scripts to automate installs you might in one point in time need to enter a net use command in order to connect to a network share.
If you don’t want to have passwords lingering in text files then come take a look what I found..!
Tools
Test-driving Login VSI Express Part 3
In this last part, we take a look at configuring VSI, running the loadtester and using the analyzer to show the results.
Test-driving Login VSI Express Part 2
In Part 2 of Test-driving Login VSI Express we are going to focus on the installation of the VTARGET Machine
Test-driving Login VSI Express Part 1
If you’ve been keeping up with the latest whitepapers in the virtualization world then you must have read about "Login VSI" more than once.
So what does this Login VSI program do exactly?
In short, Login VSI is a benchmarking tool to measure the performance and scalability in SBC and VDI environments.
Best of all, the express (basic) edition of this tool is free..!
Testdriving Paragon’s Partition Alignment Tool v 2.0
Partition Alignment in Virtual Machines is an issue that popped up a couple of years back and created a lot of blogfood at the time.
The process to enjoy this newly found wisdom used to be painful and involve a lot of moving data to newly properly aligned partitions. And as for the systemdrive…that was even worse!
Now fast forward to 2010 and apparently I’ve been stuck under a rock for quite some time because Paragon released a tool a while back that is supposed to make this task easier.
I took the Paragon Partition Alignment tool (v 2.0) for a quick test-drive and wanted to share the video with you..enjoy! (for best results: view it in HD and fullscreen!)
The installation of the program is not in the video because it was literally next,next finish!
Testdriving Paragon Partition Alignment Tool (PAT 2.0) from Virtualistic.nl on Vimeo.
Aftermath
After I did the testdrive, I also tried to push the application trough VMWare ThinApp which actually works!
The only caveat being that I wasn’t able to use the ThinApp Paragon application to realign systemdrives. (the system would just boot without starting the realignment process). However, if the only thing you want to re-align are non-systemdrives, the ThinApp version work just fine which saves a lot of installation hassles.
Resources on Partition alignment:
Recommendations for Aligning VMFS Partitions
Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 4.0
Paragon Alignment document
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Finally I found a decent ping tool
Recently I had some issues with my ISP. I was looking for a way to ping a modem and have the date/time stamp redirected to a logfile. After scouring the light and dark places on the internet I finally found a free tool that could do just about anything that relates to ping…
Tool for analyzing your performance counter logs
I ran into this great utility that I think everyone might need at some point or another to troubleshoot a Windows environment
Tool for creating image from USB stick
I came across this tool during my search for some software that can create images from a USB Stick. Some of the things I put on USB Sticks take a long to make. (installing windows xp from a stick for example)
Run programs at certain date tool: RunAsDate
I came across this excellent tool by Nirsoft. Ever had a program that would only run before a certain date?
Then check out this great tool…
Citrix GotoAssist Express Testdrive
I was wondering how easy it would be to setup Citrix’s Beta product called GotoAssist Express
well let’s give it a try…