Eight great virtual appliances for VMware, free for the downloading

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The FOG server, by default, provides DHCP, NFS, PXE, FTP, HTTPD, and wake-on-LAN services to the clients on the network. Computers on the network that have PXE boot as their first boot device can directly boot the FOG image or choose to boot from the local drive. When booting using the FOG image, the user is able to push an image to the server and store it using NFS, where it could later be pushed down to other computers. A management system controls all the tasks of the FOG server using a browser based GUI.

FOG is available as a virtual machine that can be run on VMware ESX and ESXi, making it quick to deploy on a network, which can be handy during an OS migration or PC refresh. FOG is surprisingly simple to use and offers all the critical features needed in an imaging product.

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