OCS Inventory - Download Virtual Machine

OCS Inventory - Download Virtual Machine

"The Virtual Machine ocsinventory-ng (or VMOcsinventory-ng) was created to provide an easy and ready-to-use system for those who want to test or run in a production environment the OCS Inventory Next Generation software.

These machines has been tested mainly in VMWare Server 2.x but they are compatible with other VMWare solutions like VMWare Player or VMWare ESXi.

Several distributions are available, allowing you to choose the one you prefer :

Debian 6.0 32 Bits

Debian 6.0 64 Bits

Ubuntu Server 11.04 32 Bits

Ubuntu Server 10.04 64 Bits

CentOS Server 5.7 32 Bits

Other virtual machines will be available soon, including Fedora and Centos."

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Uninstalling the SCVMM Agent from Windows Server 2008 Core

In order to remove System Center Virtual Machine Manager Agent from a Windows 2008 Server Core Version, you need to locate the uninstall string from regedit:

Open CMD and type regedit.exe, then Locate the follow registry key:HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

Then, just run that Uninstall string in command line:

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Converting Phisical to Virtual P2V

"Disk2vhd is tool from Microsoft's Sysinternals group that allows system administrators to create virtual hard disk images (VHD) of running operating systems loaded on physical hardware.
VHDs are the Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format used in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs)."

"There are other physical-to-virtual tools that are available to create images out of installed operating systems running on physical hardware; the main advantage of the Disk2vhd tool is that you can run it on a system that is up and loaded as it uses the Windows’ Volume Snapshot capability to create a point-in-time snapshot of the volumes you want to include in a conversion.
The Disk2vhd tool also allows for the ability to create the VHDs on other local volumes including the active one being converted."

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