Tools - 6 - Eric Sloof

Wednesday, April 16. 2014

Latest Fling from VMware Labs - Horizon View Event Notifier

The Horizon View Event Notifier connects to one or more existing Horizon View Event Database(s) and allows the user to customize which types of alerts to be notified on.

It can be run from any Windows based system and it collects and sends the alerts via email (SMTP) to users that are specified during the configuration process.

It allows aggregation of alerts across multiple Horizon View Pods and for near real-time alerting of Horizon View alerts that are otherwise very difficult to be notified on.

Download Horizon View Event Notifier

Thursday, March 27. 2014

Log Insight 2.0 - Beta Is Available

VMware vCenter Log Insight delivers the best real-time log management for VMware environments, with machine learning-based Intelligent Grouping and high performance search, enabling faster troubleshooting and better operational across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. It can analyze terabytes of logs, discover structure in unstructured data, and deliver enterprise-wide visibility via a modern web interface.

What's New in Log Insight 2.0 Beta

Scale-Out with High Availability
5x-10x throughput improvement in Cluster mode
Single UI to query all the data
Proactive Analytics
Machine learning enabled summarization of event types & schema recognition
Smart fields to aid in extraction
Super-Powered Dashboards
Easily add new data filters on the fly
Interact between dashboard widgets
RESTful API for log ingestion
Improved self-monitoring tools
Windows collection agent
Forwards Windows event logs
Monitors & forwards flat log files
Centralized reporting & management

Download Log Insight 2.0-beta

VMware vCenter Log Insight Getting Started Guide

Wednesday, March 19. 2014

Create your own diagrams in Microsoft Visio with the Veeam Stencils for VMware

Veeam Software provides a free collection of VMware Visio stencils that can be used by ESX administrators, system integrators and datacenter managers to create their own diagrams in Microsoft Visio 2003, 2007, 2010 or 2013 as part of their VMware deployment and planning.

Use the free Veeam Stencils for Microsoft Visio to create detailed diagrams in reports and gain valuable business insights, improve business process efficiency and customer experience as well as workflow and monitoring capabilities.

Veeam Stencils contains:

ESX and Hyper-V hosts
Datacenters
SCVMM
Local storage, shared storage
LUN
VMs with status sign
NICs

Create detailed diagrams and gain valuable business insights.

Monday, March 10. 2014

Download vCenter Support Assistant 5.5

VMware vCenter Support Assistant is a free vSphere Web Client plug-in. It provides you with proactive support, by collecting support bundles on а regular basis, analyzing your environment and sending you alerts and recommended fixes for potentially emerging problems.

vCenter Support Assistant provides you an easy-to-use, time-saving application for filing and managing support requests, and for generating and uploading vSphere and vCenter Server support bundles and other files.

VMware vCenter Support Assistant is available as a VA (virtual appliance). You need vCenter Server 5.1 or above, to install vCenter Support Assistant. vCenter Support Assistant can generate support bundles from ESX/ESXi 5.0, 5.1 and 5.5 hosts, and vCenter Server 5.1 and 5.5.

Download vCenter Support Assistant 5.5

Installing and Configuring vCenter Support Assistant

vCenter Support Assistant User's Guide

Sunday, February 23. 2014

Cool Tool - RVTools version 3.6 now available for download

RVTools is a windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts.

Interacting with all versions of VirtualCenter and ESX Server RVTools is able to list information about VMs, CPU, Memory, Disks, Partitions, Network, Floppy drives, CD drives, Snapshots, VMware tools, Resource pools, Clusters, ESX hosts, HBAs, Nics, Switches, Ports, Distributed Switches, Distributed Ports, Service consoles, VM Kernels, Datastores, Multipath info and health checks.

With RVTools you can disconnect the cd-rom or floppy drives from the virtual machines and RVTools is able to update the VMware Tools installed inside each virtual machine to the latest version.

Version 3.6 (February, 2014)

New tabpage with cluster information
New tabpage with multipath information
On vInfo tabpage new fields HA Isolation response and HA restart priority
On vInfo tabpage new fields Cluster affinity rule information
On vInfo tabpage new fields connection state and suspend time
On vInfo tabpage new field The vSphere HA protection state for a virtual machine (DAS Protection)
On vInfo tabpage new field quest state.
On vCPU tabpage new fields Hot Add and Hot Remove information
On vCPU tabpage cpu/socket/cores information adapted
On vHost tabpage new fields VMotion support and storage VMotion support
On vMemory tabpage new field Hot Add
On vNetwork tabpage new field VM folder.
On vSC_VMK tabpage new field MTU
RVToolsSendMail: you can now also set the mail subject
Fixed a datastore bug for ESX version 3.5
Fixed a vmFolder bug when started from the commandline
Improved documentation for the commandline options

Get your free copy of RVTools version 3.6

Friday, February 14. 2014

Download the free VMware vCloud Connector 2.6

VMware vCloud Connector links your internal private cloud with public clouds, so you can manage them as a single hybrid environment and transfer workloads back and forth. - vCloud Connector is now free! - The core and advanced editions have been converged as one free product in the 2.6 version of vCloud Connector.

Download: vCloud Connector 2.6

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