A. Mikkelsen

David Davis has put together a list of what he thinks is some of the best free virtualization tools avaiable.

• VMware vSphere ESXi Free Edition and VMware Go
• VMware vMA, vCLI (or command-line interface), PowerCLI, and scripts from the vGhetto script repository such as vSphereHealthCheck
• Veeam Monitor (free edition), FastSCP, and Business View
• Vizioncore Wastefinder, vConvert SC and Virtualization EcoShell
• SolarWinds’ VM Monitor
• Trilead VM Explorer
• TripWire ConfigCheck
• ConfigureSoft/EMC Compliance Checker
• ESX Manager 2.3 from ESXGuide (ESX 3i and 4i are not supported)
• vKernel SearchMyVM, SnapshotMyVM, and Modeler
• Hyper9 GuessMyOS Plugin, Search Bar Plugin, and Virtualization Mobile Manager
• XtraVirt vAlarm and vLogView

I still think that he is missing a few, like

• Project Onyx (Just released in Alpha)
• ESX HealthScript (ESXi not supported)
• Ultimate Deployment Appliance (UDA)
• Daily ESX Report (Script)
• Syslog Appliance
• PowerGUI VMware Power Pack
• PowerWF Studio

See the full article at
http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com

In this demo Ben (@xcud) takes a PowerCLI script that’s been transcribed into workflow activities and drop a ‘ToWMI’ activity at the end which causes the workflow to push the data retrieved from PowerCLI into WMI when the workflow is run. The workflow is set to run automatically every 5 seconds by being deployed as a Task in the Agent. The data is shown both on the PowerShell commandline and in a PowerGadget digital readout. Download the beta now: http://powerwf.com/

(Text copied from NTPRO.NL)