Tuesday, 20 September 2011

VMware Labs present its latest fling - VMware Permissions Tool

There has been a request from VMware’s customers to provide an inventory of roles and permissions that are available in a given VMware virtual infrastructure setup. vSphere Client currently allows users to see which principal has which permissions on a particular managed entity and a list of the active roles. It does not enable users to list the permissions given to a principal. VMware Permissions Tool (VPT) is a command line tool that helps vCenter users to query the permissions given to a particular principal. VPT has the following features:

Lists group membership of a principal in a given security domain.
List of roles with privileges associated with each role.
Lists all the permissions assigned to a principal.

Features & Usage of Permissions Tool

http://labs.vmware.com/flings/vpt

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Sunday, 18 September 2011

Video – The Free Quest vWorkspace Desktop Optimizer

Quest has created a piece of software that contains our entire ‘optimizing knowledge’ called the Quest vWorkspace Desktop Optimizer and they have decided to make it available to the desktop virtualization community, completely free of charge! The impact of the Desktop Optimizer can be huge. Quest has performed tests where they compared a vanilla install of Windows 7 Enterprise (no users logged on) to an install that was optimized using the default set of optimizations in the Quest vWorkspace Desktop Optimizer. The results are staggering! This Video will show you how easy your desktop can be optimized. More information and a download link can be found here.