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I can’t keep up with all the 3rd party tools that are coming out on a daily basis for VMware, Hyper-V and XenServer. Have you used a tool lately that you would like to share a review on with VMinstall and its readers. We’d love to hear from you. Originally posted 2009-08-20 06:03:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Free VM Tool – ToutVirtual VirtualIQ Pro – Citrix, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle and/or VMware >>> Download <<< Last week I wrote about Trilead VM Explorer for managing VMware ESX and 3i hosts without vCenter, today I am writing about VirtualIQ Pro which looks like a similar product except VirtualIQ Pro is hypervisor-agnostic supporting both Type I and Type II hypervisors. Here’s what ToutVirtual says about their VirtualIQ Pro: Enterprise Benefits
Of course the free version has its limitations but there’s plenty going on in VirtualIQ Pro that makes it worth an evaluation, especially if you use more than one virtual platform:
Wow! Originally posted 2009-04-05 17:57:18. Republished by Blog Post Promoter Veeam Monior is certainly the best monitoring software for VMware that I have ever evaluated. And, aside from it not being distributed as a virtual appliance, it’s worth the time for a simple install that requires a Windows server to host it. What’s Veeam Monitor’s Value? Want reports that are easy to customize and look professional, alerts that are meaningful, stats on disk latency and IOPS and graphs that say it all – Veeam Monitor can deliver them all. You won’t get unnecessary flash animation or colored arrows but you will get real-time data that will help manage and report your VMware Infrastructure metrics. The full version of Veeam Monitor features additional enterprise-oriented features including access to:
But I like try before I buy and Veeam monitor has a free version that allows just that. I was amazed with how much I could do with the free version.
Veeam Monitor is a tool worth installing. Here’s the link to Veeam’s website: http://www.veeam.com/esxi-monitoring-free.html Note: Tested with VirtualCenter 2.5 U4 and ESX 3.5 U4 and vSphere 4.0 (VC 4.0 and ESX 4.0) Originally posted 2009-11-01 08:38:59. Republished by Blog Post Promoter So you just installed your first pair of VMware ESX or ESXi hosts and you’re wondering how you can move VM guest servers from host to host without vCenter. Well, here’s the answer – FastSCP. FastSCP lets you manage VM folders through a nice GUI interface. It’s not vCenter but it will do the job until you can get up-to-speed with vCenter. Here is what Veeam says about FastSCP:
You can’t beat that for free. Get your free copy of Veeam FastSCP <Download> Originally posted 2009-03-23 20:27:01. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
I came up with a concept and decided these VMs would be officially called “Zombies”. Then the name coined for my script “vZombie” was added. I was also lucky enough yesterday to register the domain vZombie.com and will be posting my script there soon. Just think of these VMs like Zombies sucking valuable resources out of your Virtual Infrastructure. They may sit there idle but disk space (expensive SAN storage), memory and CPU are still allocated to them. I’m guessing that I’ll find maybe 5 or 10 percent of the VMs are vZombies. To be continued… The name vZombie is copyright of VMinstall.com, all rights are reserved. Originally posted 2009-03-07 07:29:59. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
GParted also has a nice GUI as seen in the upper right and best of all, it’s free. More about GParted: Gnome Partition EditorGParted is the Gnome Partition Editor application. Before attempting to use it, here is some basic background information. A hard disk is usually subdivided into one or more partitions. These partitions are normally not re-sizable (making one smaller and the adjacent one larger). The purpose of GParted is to allow the individual to take a hard disk and change the partition organization therein, while preserving the partition contents. GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). See Features, before using it. GParted uses GNU libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition tables. Several (optional) file system tools provide support for file systems not included in libparted. GParted is written in C++ and uses gtkmm for its Graphical User Interface (GUI). The general approach is to keep the Graphical User Interface as simple as possible. Every attempt was made to conform to the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines. GParted comes under the terms of the General Public License Download link http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ Originally posted 2009-03-01 08:39:55. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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