The Virtualization EcoShell provides administrators with a free toolkit which allows them to build their own powerful virtualization systems management consoles. In addition, they can also benefit from the hundreds of members associated with the online community-driven website, The Virtualization EcoShell Initiative (VESI™) – www.thevesi.org. Scott Herold, author, virtualization expert and chief architect of the Virtualization EcoShell and VESI commented “While we are promoting the implementation of automated systems management and providing for free what many vendors still charge for, we know every single administrator managing a virtual infrastructure can take this freeware desktop application and wrap many value-added services around it for the benefit of their organizations.”
The beta release of the Virtualization EcoShell can be downloaded from here. The Virtualization EcoShell provides several key features and out-of-the-box use cases for administrators. These capabilities will allow them to get a strong sense of how to optimize, streamline, manage and automate their multi-platform virtual environments.
Features include:
• Flexible and Robust User Interface – Simultaneously manage multi-platform virtual environments, Microsoft applications and other Windows PowerShell supported technologies with a highly flexible, robust virtualization-tailored graphical interface
• Task Automation – Reduce errors from manual processes across multiple areas of responsibility through the automation of repetitive and complex tasks inherent in virtualization infrastructures
• Administrative Reports and Maps – Provide pre-defined and customizable reports as well as automated maps without hassle in HTML, XML and CSV formats, including support for Microsoft Visio
• Powerful Script Assistance – Cushion and ramp up script creation with a powerful
Integrated Development Environment by exposing, analyzing and troubleshooting script output for common Windows PowerShell commands
• VESI™ – Inspire administrators who manage multi-platform virtual environments to share and enhance the capabilities of the Virtualization EcoShell through the online community-drive initiative and forum – www.thevesi.org
• The Virtualization EcoShell and VESI are provided completely 100% free of charge.
