Archive for February 2012

VMware Labs (Flings)

February 29, 2012 VMware, VMware Labs No comments

VMware Labs is VMware’s home for collaboration. They see collaboration as the information exchange that takes place internally and externally. On this site you can play around with the latest innovations coming out of VMware and share feedback and ideas directly with their engineers. VMware Labs is also the place where VMware engineers can share their cool and useful tools with you. With this in mind, Labs is made up of the following components:

Flings

VMware’s engineers work on tons of pet projects in their spare time, and are always looking to get feedback on their projects (or “flings”). Why flings? A fling is a short-term thing, not a serious relationship but a fun one. Likewise, the tools that are offered here are intended to be played with and explored. None of them are guaranteed to become part of any future product offering and there is no support for them. They are, however, totally free for you to download and play around with them!

Website

http://labs.vmware.com/flings

RV Tools

February 29, 2012 Monitoring, VMware No comments

This looks like a really useful tool for the VMware Admins out there

http://www.robware.net/

RVTools is a windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts. Interacting with VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX 3.5, ESX3i, ESX4i and vSphere 4 RVTools is able to list information about cpu, memory, disks, nics, cd-rom, floppy drives, snapshots, VMware tools, ESX hosts, nics, datastores, service console, VM Kernel, switches, ports and health checks. With RVTools you can disconnect the cd-rom or floppy drives from the virtual machines and RVTools is able to list the current version of the VMware Tools installed inside each virtual machine. and update them to the latest version.