The ESX System Analyzer is a tool designed to help administrators plan a migration from ESX to ESXi. It analyzes the ESX hosts in your environment and, for each host, collects information on factors that pertain to the migration process:
β’ Hardware compatibility with ESXi
β’ VMs registered on the ESX host, as well as VMs located on the hostβs local disk
β’ Modifications to the Service Console RPMs which have been added or removed or files which have been added or users and cronjobs which have been added
This tool also provides summary information for the whole existing environment
β’ Version of VMware Tools and Virtual Hardware for all VMs
β’ Version of Filesystem for all datastores
By having this information, administrators can determine what tasks need to be done prior to the migration. Examples include:
β’ Relocate VMs from local datastores to shared datastores
β’ Replace cronjobs with equivalent remote scripts written with PowerCLI or vCLI
β’ Make note of what agent software has been added to the host and obtain the equivalent agentless version
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Update: Remon Lam over at VirtualVlouds.info has figuered out the username and password, he also has a link to the userguide.
Wednesday, November 30. 2011
VMware Labs presents its latest fling - ESX System Analyzer
Sunday, November 27. 2011
Icomasoft has released opvizor 1.5 also available as freeware
As of today, the software-as-a-service solution opvizor for analyzing and rectifying configuration, performance and security errors in virtualized environments is available on the market in Version 1.5. The new versionβs architecture has been optimized in particular for medium-sized and large virtualized infrastructures. This is coupled with improvements in performance, disguising, in reporting and with an enlarged set of rules. As was the case for its predecessor, opvizor 1.5 is available on www.opvizor.com as a commercial and a free version.
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Tuesday, November 1. 2011
VMware Labs presents its latest fling VDSPowerCli
PowerShell is a scripting language Microsoft developed to help administrators manage the Windows environment. Third parties can write their own snap-ins (dynamic linked libraries) to implement new commands, which are called cmdlets. With VDSPowerCli, users can use the cmdlets provided by PowerCLI to manage vSphere Distributed Switch(VDS). VDSPowerCli gives you the ability to manage:
β’ VMware vSphere Distributed Switch
β’ Distributed Port Group
β’ Distributed Port
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β’ VMware vSphere Distributed Switch
β’ Distributed Port Group
β’ Distributed Port
Download and try out VDSPowerCli
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