VMware Tools
This section of TechHead is dedicated to providing a list of useful VMware ESX related tools and utilities. This list will grow over time and please feel free to let me know of any tools/utils that you feel should be on the list.
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My name is Simon Seagrave and I am a London (UK) based Senior Technology Consultant and vSpecialist working for EMC. I love my work and spend most of my time working with and exploring Virtualisation Technologies in particular VMware products. In my home IT lab I use VMware vSphere, HP Proliants and various storage products along with many of Microsoft's back office products.
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Another one for your list is RVTools (http://www.robware.net/) which I’ve found to be very useful in the past.
Cheers
Craig
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Kiwi Si Reply:
May 25th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Hi Craig,
Thanks for letting us know about the util – looks good. Will add it to the list.
Cheers,
Simon
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Care to ad the UDA and EDA to that list too, as a deployment tool
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Kiwi Si Reply:
August 13th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Hi Mike.
UDA and EDA added to the list – great tools!
Thanks,
Simon
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vSphere PowerCli in scripting?
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Kiwi Si Reply:
August 14th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Thanks – added to the list.
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Virtualization EcoShell http://www.thevesi.org
Virtualization EcoShell is a freeware desktop application that enables IT administrators to unlock the full potential of their virtual infrastructure and reduce the daily operating costs of managing multi-platform environments
I love this. Powershell minded.!
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Kiwi Si Reply:
August 18th, 2009 at 6:35 am
Hi Bonsj,
Good recommendation – added to the list.
Thanks,
Simon
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There is another free Audit script called HealthScript.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/esxhealthscript/
A. Mikkelsen
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Kiwi Si Reply:
August 21st, 2009 at 6:52 am
Thanks for the link Anders. Looks good – it produces a really nice clean report.
Cheers,
Simon
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Xtravirt have now given away a valarm app which produces a balloon message on a client pc so you can look out for triggered alarms without having to have the client open.
http://xtravirt.com/xd10130
regards
Dale
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Great resource for future use. Appreciate the work!
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Kiwi Si Reply:
January 4th, 2010 at 8:05 am
Hi Kevin,
Thanks for your comment.
Keep up the good work with your great site – http://www.bladesmadesimple.com
Cheers,
Simon
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Great page, so many useful links, so little time. Thanks for this timesaver.
The EDA link returns a 404 error and the Herco link brings up a page that says, “This IP is being shared among many domains. To view the domain you are looking for, simply enter the domain name in the location bar of your web browser.”
Joe
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Kiwi Si Reply:
January 4th, 2010 at 7:58 am
Hi Joe,
Thanks for letting me know about the dead-link.
I’ve disabled it for now though will keep an eye on it in case it comes back.
Cheers,
Simon
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Citrix tools maker Gourami (www.gourami.eu), recently finished version 1.1 of Farm Commander Which also include support for VMWare.
Very usefull for system administrators, and it’s free (registration required)!
more info: http://gourami.eu/products/farm-commander
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A cool backup tool for VMware which is missing above is http://www.backupchain.com
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Hi Kiwi Si,
The Vmwire links are not working anymore.
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PowerWF was released in Feb. Thought you might like to know.
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