Tuesday, March 17. 2009
Zoom In or Out of the Map View
New alarm definitions in the next version
The list with default alarm definitions in the next version of ESX server has grown tremendously. As you can see in the image the list contains a a lot of new trigger objects. You can monitor the current condition or state of virtual machines, hosts, and datastores. This includes power states, connection states, and performance metrics, such as CPU and disk usage. To set alarms on other objects in the inventory, including datacenters, clusters, resource pools, and networking objects, use event triggers. The Event Triggers monitors events that occur in response to operations occurring with any managed object in the inventory, the vCenter Server system, or the license server. For example, an event is recorded each time a virtual machine is cloned, created, deleted, deployed, and migrated.
In the Alarm Settings dialog box, use the Triggers tab to add, edit, or remove alarm triggers. The procedure for setting up triggers depends on whether you are setting the trigger for a condition or state or for an event. What’s new... you can set a condition length.
Desktop Central | Free Windows Tools
Desktop Central provides a set of free Windows tools that Windows Administrators might require on a day-to-day basis.
- Remote Task Manager Tool
- Wake On LAN Tool
- Software Inventory Tool
- Remote Command Prompt
- GPO Update Tool
- Shutdown / Restart Tool
- Join / Unjoin Computer Tool
- Currently Logged On User
- Hard Disk Space Monitor
- Local User/Group List
- Network Share Browser
VMware Products Coming in 2009
Sunday, March 15. 2009
The H9Labs Search Bar Plug-in for VI3
Schley Andrew Kutz has released a new VI3 plug-in via H9Labs called the Search Bar Plug-in for VI3. The plug-in adds search capabilities to VI3 clients through an integrated search bar in the upper-left hand corner of the client. This functionality is present by default in VMware’s recently announced vSphere4, but severely lacking in VI3. Andrew, along with his CTO, Dave McCrory (who gave him great advice on the plug-in and produced the H9Labs graphics for it), figured they would simply back port the search capabilities from vSphere into VI3.
Let’s wait and see what Andrew’s next invention looks like, I received a personal note. :-)
Eric, Good job on the Twitter plug-in. I was (am) working on something similar.
Extend your IT Reach with Mobile Admin 4.2
Rove, a developer of network administration software that provides IT administrators mobile management of their IT systems and infrastructure will unveil the newest version of their flagship product next Monday. Mobile Admin 4.2 will feature full support for VMware vCenter, so users can check and administer their VMware infrastructure from their BlackBerry.
Mobile Admin enables the administration of your IT environment via mobile devices. Once the Mobile Admin Server is deployed within your network, your users can perform a wide range of administrative tasks from a variety of mobile devices, including BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and the Web Interface.
Mobile Admin supports management of the VMware Virtual Center.
Users can check and administer their VMware infrastructure on a global basis from a BlackBerry smartphone, Windows Mobile phone or a web interface.
Users can perform other VMware administrative tasks such as retrieving a running copy of a failed server from a virtual machine, or viewing VMware ESX server status information remotely when a problem occurs.
Note: Microsoft Powershell and the VMware VI Toolkit (for Windows) must be installed on the same system as Mobile Admin in order to manage VI servers with Mobile Admin.