Veeam FastSCP 2.0 for VMware - VMware ESX Virtual Server Management

FastSCP provides a fast, secure and easy way to manage files and bulk copy VMs across your VMware ESX environment.

Veeam FastSCP is the de facto standard for ESX file management. FastSCP allows users to copy files from ESX to Windows, Windows to ESX or ESX to ESX. FastSCP is the simplest and fastest way to deliver ISO files to ESX Servers or copy VMs and templates between ESX servers. FastSCP ensures security by using a one-time password feature and works more than six times faster than SCP.

Download PDF Datasheet on FastSCP 2.0 for VMware

System Requirements
ESX requirements:
VMware ESX Server 3.x or higher
Administrator machine requirements:
Windows Server 2003; Windows XP Service Pack 2
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
For Veeam Backup system requirements please refer to
http://www.veeam.com/…/About_Veeam_Backup.asp
To download Veeam FastSCP,
please visit: www.veeam.com/download_all.asp

It’s fast
Veeam FastSCP can copy files over 6 times faster than SCP as it uses full network capacity. It saves you a huge amount of time when dealing with large files.

It’s secure
Veeam FastSCP doesn’t require installing any additional services (daemons) on ESX. It uses SSH as a control channel to generate a one-time username and password for each file transfer session.

It’s easy to use
Veeam FastSCP doesn’t require any ESX reconfiguration. It has Windows Explorer-like user interface familiar to any Windows user. Just run it on your Windows machine and start copying!

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As you may know, I have a pair of Dell PowerEdge SC440 servers which I use for my virtualization testing and evaluation. With the recent release of ESXi for free and also interest in testing out Parallels Server, both of which require an Intel CPU with VT Technology. Neither of my current servers are equipped with that option so I’m looking to upgrade to a new CPU. I have decided, basically due to restrictions of the motherboard and chipset the best CPU for me will be in an Intel 3060 Xeon.

The technical specifications of the CPU are as follows:

Intel Xeon 3060 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX805573060 - Retail

* Series: Xeon
* FSB: 1066MHz
* L2 Cache: 4MB
* Manufacturing Tech: 65 nm
* 64 bit Support: Yes
* Virtualization Technology Support: Yes
* Multimedia Instruction: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, EM64T
* Cooling Device: Heatsink and Fan included
* Model #: BX805573060

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Update:

It seems that some VMware executives, specifically New CEO Paul Maritz, agreed with my idea of celebrating the FREEdoms of July. With the announcement of the release of ESXi at no charge to everyone after July 28, 2008, the bar to virtualize your server environment has been lowered once again.

Today, VMware is taking another step towards making virtualization ubiquitous by announcing that VMware ESXi will be available for download at no cost as of the week of July 28, 2008.

VMware has always believed that virtualization needs to be ubiquitous. Since 2001, VMware has provided the industry’s most popular and reliable hypervisor used by more than 100,000 customers. During this evolution, partners like you have been critical in educating and delivering virtualization to customers of all sizes. In December 2007, VMware announced significant improvements with ESXi - its third-generation, stand-alone hypervisor. With its smaller footprint and OS-independence, ESXi ensures even higher levels of security and reliability while making virtualization easier than ever to deploy.

This really adds an interesting twist to the SMB market, now a small company which couldn’t afford the high cost of VMware may now be able to tap into the rich features and ease of management which it offers.

Bogomil Balkansky, senior marketing manager, said dropping the $495 license price for ESXi to zero will “accelerate adoption of VMware virtualization products and help companies get to 100% virtualization in their data centers.” While VMware is the current market leader, with $1.3 billion in revenues last year, much of the potential market for virtualization products remains untapped, especially among small and medium-sized businesses that that are just getting started.

Sources:
From the VMware Field: Mike D’s Virtualization Blog: ESX 3.5i for Free and the Impact on Hyper-V and the SMB
VMware to Ship ESXi Hypervisor for Free
VMware Counters Microsoft, Will Make ESXi Hypervisor Free - Yahoo! News

Virtualization is really starting to take off. If you have noticed the recent push over the past few months in the desktop virtualization space, helping to allow consumers to choose a new laptop on the hardware criteria alone and not just the operating system. Also it is allowing consumers to make the transition to Apple hardware even easier. Or for those wishing to go open source, they can still use their favorite windows applications inside of a virtual machine.

Recent proof of the popularity of virtualization is this screen capture of digg. On a Saturday afternoon 2 of the top stories are directly related to virtualization.

x86V has decided to focus on a monthly topic, to better concentrate the efforts of this sites research efforts, and not just randomly post topics which may be of interest to our readers. We invite all other virtualization blogs and software blogs to follow our topics or submit articles to be published on this blog as guest bloggers, with appropriate attribution.

July

In honor of the 4th of July celebration of Freedom (in the US), we are going to focus on “FREE”, no strings attached software and virtualization methods. There are many great Free products out there, including VMware Server, VMware Player, Virtual Server 2005, Virtual PC, and VirtualBox.

August

Being the hottest month of the year, in the northern hemisphere besides July which already has a topic, the topic of August will be “GREEN”. With virtualization leading to green computing, the month of August will cover the cost benefits, equipment benefits and operating savings of running virtualization in the corporate environment.

September

If all goes well, the acquisition of new Apple hardware will lead this month to be “APPLE” month. The topic will focus on VMware Fusion, Parallels Desktop, and the barely discussed OSX Server Virtualization.

October

The month of October ends with Halloween. So the topic will be the “SCARY” part of virtualization. This is all about what happens when virtualization goes wrong, hardware dies, and how to safely backup restore and move Virtual Machines.

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