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PHD Virtual Technologies, provider of the pioneering esXpress data protection and recovery solution for virtual machines, today announced availability of Patch Downloader version 6.0, a new freeware solution to simplify patch downloading for various VMware ESX versions.

Patch Downloader version 6.0 is the fifth free virtualization utility to be offered by PHD Virtual as part of its longstanding commitment to the virtualization community.

Patch Downloader v6.0 eases the pain of downloading patches for various ESX versions from the VMware support site by automating the process for users that cannot use the VMware Update Manager. Now, rather than downloading each patch manually through a Java Download manager, VMware administrators can simply select the version of ESX from the Patch downloader drop down menu, and select the file repository (including folder, drive map, SMB share, etc.) to download the patches to. The new freeware solution will list all of the available patches and information about the patches including severity of the problem it corrects, what the impact on VM/Host uptime is, and a description of the problem fixed. Downloads of selected patches are performed with a simple click making it easy to keep the ESX patch repository up to date.

Read the full post here: PHD Virtual Releases New Freeware Solution: Patch Downloader v6.0

Last Tuesday virtualization knowledge buffs Xtravirt published their review of esXpress 3.5!

The review was written by technical author Peter Grant and is suitable for people at the level of “Technical – Novice”.

The main sections in the review include:

1. Introduction
2. Background
3. Features and Capabilities
4. Gotchas / Troubleshooting
5. Licensing
6. Summary
7. Useful References

PHD Virtual’s product esXpress now has a group on LinkedIn called the “Official esXpress Virtual Backup Group“.

The group is sporting some top names in the virtualization community also!

esXpress radically alters the notion of how to protect data in virtual infrastructures in one simple way: It uses the virtual infrastructure to back itself up!

This innovative approach enables esXpress to provide best of breed data protection functions without the use of VCB, Proxy Servers or VM Agents.