Top 10 Free Tools for VMware administrators
vmware-land.com has released his list of the top 10 free tools a VMware administrator needs in his toolkit. Take a look at it and see it you are missing a few ones. Top 10 free tools
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PuTTy Connection Manager
Ever looked for a tabbed version of famous PuTTY? PuTTY Connection Manager is a free PuTTY Client Add-on for Windows platforms which goal is to provide a solution for managing multiple PuTTY instances. This is one of the most important missing feature of PuTTY. Get it now…. Here
Quick guide to tweak a VM for better performance
Today i came accoss this handy little guide to boost performance of a VM. Disable the pre-logon screensaver: Open Regedit HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop Change the value of “ScreenSaveActive†to 0. Disable updates of the last access time attribute for your NTFS filesystem, especially for i/o intensive vm’s this is a real boost: Open CMD fsutil behavior… Read More »
Need to check your ESX 3.5 enviroment security?
TripWire is here…. Came accross this cool free tool to check your ESX 3.5 enviroment security against VMware hardening guide. ——————————– Tripwire® ConfigCheckTM is a free utility that rapidly assesses the security of VMware ESX 3.5 hypervisor configurations compared to the VMware Infrastructure 3 Security Hardening guidelines. Developed by Tripwire in cooperation with VMware, Tripwire… Read More »
Listing DRS VMotion info from VC database
Ever wanted to see how many DRS VMotion your ESX enviroment is generating? Using the following query you can extract the requried information from the VC database. SELECT vpx_event.event_type, vpx_event.vm_name, vpx_event.create_time from vpx_event where event_type like ‘%migrate%’ (Thanks to: Dave.Mishchenko http://communities.vmware.com/message/969563) Also see http://www.gabesvirtualworld.com/?p=69 for an idear to what you can do with the information… Read More »
Troubleshooting VMware snapshots
Eric Siebert has writen a very good and explaining guide on how to troubleshoot snapshots on ESX 3.x. Virtualization administrators can use snapshots on VMware ESX to travel back in time and figure out what went wrong with their virtual machines (VMs). But what do you do when your snapshots start acting funny? In this… Read More »
Trim your XP installation to a minimum with nLite
Ever wanted a XP installation disc that only had the bare minimum of features and the smalest foot print? The take a look at nLite and if you a a gamer also take a look at Game XP. You can find a guide to both Freeware programs here. Last week I created a new WinXP… Read More »
The ultimate plugin to VC 2.5 – SVmotion
The people over at Lostcrations have created the first known third party plugin to VC 2.5. It enables you to SVmotion your VM’s VMDK’s between different storage locations Take a look at it http://www.lostcreations.com/code/wiki/vmware/viplugins/svmotion
Nice Windows GUI for SVmotion
Just stumbled upon this nice tool to do SVmotion from a Windows server http://communities.vmware.com/thread/122847?tstart=0 A. Mikkelsen
Script – Checking ESX Disk Space Usage from a Central Linux Box
How nice is this ….. Scalethemind.com has released a updated version of a script to generate a overview of how your ESX hosts disk space are used. Check it out. http://scalethemind.com/2008/02/script-checking-esx-disk-space-usage-from-a-central-linux-box/