Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL

Richard Garsthagen over at Run-Virtual.com released a new version of “VMotion Info” and re-branded it to  “VMware CPU Host Info”. This new version will help you identify what kind of processors you have in your ESX servers without having to reboot and use the VMware CPU identification boot CD. It will show you if you have VMotion compatible CPU’s.  I’m sure this new version will be demoed at the Dutch VMUG event at the 12th of December where Richard will present “VMware - 3rd Party Utilities for VMware” session. He’s also the keynote speaker at this event. I’ll be presenting the “Managing VI3 with PowerShell” session. There are still a few tickets left so if you’re in the neighbourhood, you can sign-up here.

Mike Laverick launched a completely new design of his well known RTFM education website. It looks great, although his "Other VMware Bloggers" section is a bit outdated; you better visit VMware-Land's LaunchPad instead.

esXpress, created a web based VMDK file descriptor file creator.

Ulli Hankeln over at sanbarrow.com also known as continuum created a nice little tool which recreates a VMDK descriptor file. When you end up with only a flat.vmdk this is a real nice tool. Ulli rulez :-).

Occasionally ESX VMs crash in such a way that the descriptor file of a vmdk gets lost.
If you ever need to recreate a descriptor from scratch but still have the *-flat.vmdk this little tool may come handy. Tool asks for a flat-file - like used by ESX 3 and Workstation. It ignores the CID and uses a bogus one. Output is named "newdescriptor.vmdk" - rename as needed.
Doesn't work for disks smaller than 1 Gb at the moment.

Oh dear I lost my descriptor

Via ICT-Freak