Tools

Thursday, February 26. 2015

Cool Tool - Snapwatcher

Invalid or broken snapshots are caused by all kind of actions the system admin has no control of i. e. backup solutions that trigger the snapshot creation and deletion. If VMware struggles to delete the snapshot files an invalid snapshot is made. This kind of snapshots are known to be hard to detect and tend to grow hidden to waste precious disk space.

Monitor VMware snapshots across VMware vCenter systems and report your efforts saving space.
Track snapshots, find invalid snapshots - leverage the powerful grid to handle hundreds of snapshots smooth and simple.
Free precious disk space wasted by fixing broken, old and invalid snapshots with a click.

Free Download Snapwatcher

Wednesday, February 18. 2015

Cool Tool - BaiBoard - Visualize, Create, Collaborate

BaiBoard is the most innovative collaborative drawing application on Mac and iOS platform today. Connected with back-end services on the cloud, BaiBoard enables both consumers and enterprises to collaborate, share, publish, store, retrieve any diagrams.

Note that BaiBoard on iPad has more features than the Mac version, including:

PDF annotation currently only available on iPad.
Saving as stencil feature currently only available on iPad.
Push-to-talk and chat feature currently on available on iPad.

FEATURES:

Real-time, Collaborative, with easy-to-use drawing interface.
Internet based services for collaborating, sharing, storing, viewing with drawing capabilities.
A variety of drawing tools.
Instant snapshots, storing and retrieval any stage of your drawing, all on-demand.
All data (diagrams, chat history, snapshots) of meeting session are persistently stored. Your meetings can be stopped and restarted at any time.
SSL connectivities, Password protected, Encrypted storage.
No registration, No sign-up required.
Collaborate with the BaiBoard iPad version.

Free Download

Wednesday, February 11. 2015

Latest Fling from VMware Labs - VM Resource and Availability Service

This Fling enables you to perform a what-if analysis for host failures on your infrastructure. You can simulate failure of one or more hosts from a cluster (in vSphere) and identify how many:

VMs would be safely restarted on different hosts
VMs would fail to be restarted on different hosts
VMs would experience performance degradation after restarted on a different host

With this information, you can better plan the placement and configuration of your infrastructure to reduce downtime of your VMs/Services in case of host failures.

Also take a look at: New fling released: VM Resource and Availability Service

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