I can see I will need to check the price of the Sony MicroVault as Dugie is right, it certainly is small enough to fit in your wallet
I would simply add to this with TeraCopy (previous post) being a tool that can support the resume function in traditional SMB, LAN, WAN connections just as it is possible via FTP. I have found myself stuck with trying to download 100mb or more over a VPN just knowing that it will timeout at some stage but being absolutely helpless - well now it doesn't matter with this cause you just retry the copy or download and it simply asks if you'd like to resume from where it broke - great stuff!!
Top 10 Virtualization Tools on my USB Key
WSS, Virtualization June 29th, 2007
My USB Key goes everywhere with me, mostly because it stays in my wallet. There is a piccy over there (US readers can substitute a dime for the 5c piece), The usb key is the blue Sony MicroVault in the middle — and yes it is really a USB key
My USB key has wealth of life saving utilities and programs on it. With everything that has happened in the last few days, I thought I’d post my Top 10 VHD virtualization utilities:
- VHD Expand - simple no nonsense tool to make VHD files bigger
- VMDK2VHD - again, a simple no nonense way to convert a Vmware VMDK to a Microsoft VHD
- Whitney Defrag - a portable an beautiful solution to defrag, speed up and make smaller any 2003 or XP Virtualmachine or host
- PageDefrag - same as above, but for your Pagefile. Works great both in a Virtualmachine and on the host.
- Angry IPScan - brilliant for quickly scanning a subnet and looking for the the default OUI (”00-03-ff”) of Virtualmachines
- Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 - VHDMount = good ’nuff said!
- VMRCplus - Manage Virtual Server without IIS
- Robocopy - Copy big files over bad networks and not worry about it failing.
- vXCopy - Multithreaded copy tool , copy big files fast
- Process Explorer - Task manager on steroids, know exactly what your host (or virtual machines) are doing.
I didn’t want to list all the stuff on my USB key today, and there is a mix of scripts, utilities and programs (VirtualPC 2007 for instance). But this will do for starters.
How about you guys? Any tools you can’t live without?