You can reach David at – @davidmdavis on Twitter or his blog, VMwareVideos.com

You can reach Kendrick at – @KendrickColeman on Twitter or his blog, KendrickColeman.com – the source of his 50+ top free vSphere tools.

Special thanks to TrainSignal.com – the best source for vSphere training for IT Pros – for sponsoring this webinar!

In this video, not only do you get to see what the session might have looked like but you learn about the upcoming free tool from vKernel called vSCOPE (available October 26, 2011 from www.vKernel.com). Thanks to Alex at vKernel for this funny idea and for posting this video!

I am still amazed that Kenny is already HAS his VCP7 and has starting preparing for his LOL !

Actually, Kenny and I will be giving our free tools presentation again, LIVE, next week – register here to attend!

If you couldn’t make it to VMworld 2011 in Vegas (or were just too busy to attend this session) then this session is for you. This session WON’T be at VMworld Europe so this is your last chance to catch it this year!

If you happened to catch our session at VMworld, you would know that we don’t just show 10 tools, it’s probably closer to 30. We give credit where credit is due for all the members of the VMware Community that dedicate time and effort into producing all these free tools. This session appeals to every person who has an interest in vSphere. We will talk about some of the free tools that beginners and novices can use that are easy out-the-box solutions and we will discuss some of the tools that require a bit of CLI work that appeal to those experts out there. We scoured hidden corners of the web to bring you the greatest content available. So come one and all to see the “greatest webinar on earth”!

I can guarantee that you will come back armed with more knowledge than you expected because this isn’t a single product pitch, heck, it’s not a product pitch at all. This is a webinar focused on giving vSphere admins what they want, knowledge to overcome obstacles in every day situations.

Here are some of the responses we received from our session in Vegas at VMworld 2011:

• “Best little gems, can’t wait to try them out!”
• “Even better than last year, best session for the whole week”
• “One of the best presentations I attended. Had actual usable content instead of a sales pitch.”
• “One of the best sessions I attended”

This live webinar will take place on October 26, 2011 at two times in order to make the the entire world happy (well almost).

Register to attend this webinar at either:

• Europe: 7am Pacific / 10am Eastern / 3pm London
• U.S.: 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern

This special webinar is sponsored by Xangati so please help to support their free tool - Xangati for vSphere.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

• Our session at VMworld covering top free tools
• His blog, www.KendrickColeman.com, where he talks about VCE, VBlocks, vCloud Director, free tools, and more
• vSphere 5, View 5, Project Horizon, and more
• VCE Fast-path – how it autoprovisions View and the connection broker, how it could help the SME and VMware partners – and what it’s like to work at VCE

To stay up to date on Kendrick Coleman’s latest posts over at his blog – www.KendrickColeman.com

(this presentation is posted with SlideRocket – another FREE VMware Tool)

Note: the SlideRocket presetation above doesn’t have the videos in it that we showed in our presentation (as SlideRocket only supports FLV and MP4 videos and our videos aren’t in that format). For the full presentation and videos, download the PPTX version of our presentation at KendrickColeman.com.

First off, the new name is “Xangati for vSphere” (which I had a part in suggesting). What’s even better than that is all the new features (yes, even in the free version!). Here’s the list:
- Health index score
- Alerts and notifications of performance problems
- Ability to record and replay events that happen in the virtual infrastructure
- Drill down into metrics like datastore latency, read and write rates on datastores, how datastores are responding to hosts, what VMs are talking to other VMs, and much more!
- Installation process has been improved and made much easier

I’ll certainly be talking about the new Xangati for vSphere in my free tools session with Kendrick Coleman at VMworld 2011 next week. Like thousands of others, download Xangati for vSphere today!

With this tool, you can backup VMware ESX Server Guest VMs to your local PC or directly from ESX host to ESX host. VMX also provides a SSH login to each server, compressed file transfer, and drag and drop file browsing. I hope you will read Backing up and managing VMware ESX virtual machines with VM Explorer.