SimDK – VMware vSphere4 simulator

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Andrew Kutz already has released amazing pieces of code during the past years, back in May 2007 he revealed the source code of his tool that can add port groups to all your ESX servers. In February 2008 he released the source code of his tool ...

The vmClient 4.0 is released

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

The vmClient is a lightweight tool which enables you to control the power of your virtual machines, it’s also capable of presenting the MKS console of your virtual machines. Before you can use the vmClient, you have to install the vSphere client on the same system. ...

VMware Labs is online and it Rocks

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

VMware Labs is the place where VMware engineers share their cool tools.  There is a wide range of tools here for you, including one for automating tasks, getting ESX performance graphs, a rich Internet application framework and much more. You really should check-out the fling section, this ...

Join me at the VMware vSphere 4 Troubleshooting Training

Friday, March 5th, 2010

VMware vSphere: TroubleshootingThis lab-intensive course focuses on providing system administrators with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware vSphere™ virtual infrastructure. In this course, you will spend most of the time diagnosing and rectifying configuration problems created on VMware® ESX™/ESXi ...

Technology Preview – VMware Guest Console (VGC)

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Cravik1 has posted two technology preview videos of the upcoming VMware Guest Console Virtual Appliance on YouTube.   VMware Guest Console (VGC) is an application to manage the Guest Operating Systems installed on VMs. VGC includes a Unified Task Manager, Guest file system explorer, Snapshot Manager, VM Manager ...

New dedicated VMTN community forum for Update Manager PowerCLI

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

vCenter Update Manager PowerCLI provides an easy-to-use Windows Powershell interface to VMware vCenter Update Manager and has numerous cmdlets and sample scripts. vCenter Update Manager PowerCLI now also has its own VMTN forum. To find additional resources and exchange ideas with other users, visit http://www.vmware.com/go/powercliupdate. Automate ...

Eric Sloof’s Cool Tool – vmClient – Sneak Preview

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

I’ve been busy with coding the past few days. I’ve successfully completed my Microsoft Partnership admission and received a  subscription to their developer network. Now I’ve access to all the developer tools an operating systems you can dream of. My coding project has to do with ...

VMware vSphere Manage for Performance

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Next week I’ll attend the VMware vSphere Manage for Performance Train The Trainer course. The Manage for Performance course equips administrators with the knowledge and skills to monitor and troubleshoot a vSphere installation. It’ll also cover fundamental design decisions to enhance performance.  Scott Drummonds who has ...

PowerWF – Visualizing Virtualization

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

I’ve enjoyed a full week of vacation last week but while I was offline there was happening a lot in the virtualization world. One thing I’ve missed was the launch of PowerWF Studio version 2.0. Although the Devfarm team was kind enough to give me a ...

VMware Capacity Alerts on your Desktop

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

I thought you might be interested in the new fee tool that VKernel released today. Capacity View provides quick visibility and alerting to the storage and server capacity issues in your VMware virtualized infrastructure. This powerful tool is a desktop app that downloads in 2 minutes ...