Comments on: Assorted VMware Tools http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/18/assorted-vmware-tools/ The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:29:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Justin Johnston http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/18/assorted-vmware-tools/#comment-36984 Justin Johnston Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:02:14 +0000 http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/18/assorted-vmware-tools/#comment-36984 I recently attended a 5 day extreme boot camp with LiveAmmo. It was fantastic, the instructor was very knowledgeable and thorough. I definitely recommend this to anyone interested in obtaining VMware capability. Here is the link http://virtualization.liveammo.com I recently attended a 5 day extreme boot camp with LiveAmmo. It was fantastic, the instructor was very knowledgeable and thorough. I definitely recommend this to anyone interested in obtaining VMware capability. Here is the link http://virtualization.liveammo.com

]]> By: Mike Methe http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/18/assorted-vmware-tools/#comment-33487 Mike Methe Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:26:25 +0000 http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/18/assorted-vmware-tools/#comment-33487 Great tools. I am going to install VCPlus and check it out tonight. I'll post my findings. I'd be very interested in hearing more about what others are doing with ESX guest backups. I have been using ESX Ranger from visioncore but just today installed esXpress. -mwm http://www.theblatbox.com Great tools. I am going to install VCPlus and check it out tonight. I’ll post my findings. I’d be very interested in hearing more about what others are doing with ESX guest backups. I have been using ESX Ranger from visioncore but just today installed esXpress.

-mwm http://www.theblatbox.com

]]> By: Eric Sloof http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/18/assorted-vmware-tools/#comment-33109 Eric Sloof Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:05:10 +0000 http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/18/assorted-vmware-tools/#comment-33109 VMware's virtualization technology has become the industry standard for virtualization in the enterprise. More and more people are writing software based on the SDK and created a lot of little handy tools. On the other side there are some larger company’s who also created all kinds of applications to support VMware ESX server and Virtual Center. The vm4all.com website provides a complete list of all these tools and applications. Regards, Eric Sloof http://www.vm4all.com Ps. Zaid, if I can help you please let me know. VMware’s virtualization technology has become the industry standard for virtualization in the enterprise. More and more people are writing software based on the SDK and created a lot of little handy tools. On the other side there are some larger company’s who also created all kinds of applications to support VMware ESX server and Virtual Center. The vm4all.com website provides a complete list of all these tools and applications.

Regards,

Eric Sloof

http://www.vm4all.com

Ps. Zaid, if I can help you please let me know.

]]> By: Zaid http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/18/assorted-vmware-tools/#comment-32825 Zaid Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:27:18 +0000 http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/18/assorted-vmware-tools/#comment-32825 I downloaded MKS client and trying to use it but it is in black blank screen. I am looking for a VI client that would be helpful. I downloaded MKS client and trying to use it but it is in black blank screen. I am looking for a VI client that would be helpful.

]]> By: slowe http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/18/assorted-vmware-tools/#comment-32790 slowe Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:35:16 +0000 http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/18/assorted-vmware-tools/#comment-32790 Alex, Sounds interesting--keep me posted on the progress. Thanks! BTW, you can reach me via e-mail using scott dot lowe at scottlowe dot org. Alex,

Sounds interesting–keep me posted on the progress. Thanks!

BTW, you can reach me via e-mail using scott dot lowe at scottlowe dot org.

]]> By: Alex Davidson http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/18/assorted-vmware-tools/#comment-32789 Alex Davidson Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:14:28 +0000 http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/18/assorted-vmware-tools/#comment-32789 For the past year or so we've been using VMware Server for server sandboxing and simplified management. We've got a battery of PowerShell scripts that handle the business of generating VMs (MAC assignment, image deployment, etc). Just recently we added VirtualCenter 1.4 to the system, which will probably render half our scripts redundant. A few months ago we decided to set up a small VM computing cloud for doing automated UI tests, and VirtualCloud (http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualcloud) is the result. It's not yet finished, and probably won't move into Beta for another week or two (we're a small company so I'm currently the only one working on it) but it will hopefully become a smaller-scale, low-cost alternative to VMware Virtual Labs. The .NET-to-VIM-service component is almost complete and I should have most of the remaining bugs worked out by the end of the week. Alex, Bluewire Technologies For the past year or so we’ve been using VMware Server for server sandboxing and simplified management. We’ve got a battery of PowerShell scripts that handle the business of generating VMs (MAC assignment, image deployment, etc). Just recently we added VirtualCenter 1.4 to the system, which will probably render half our scripts redundant.

A few months ago we decided to set up a small VM computing cloud for doing automated UI tests, and VirtualCloud (http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualcloud) is the result. It’s not yet finished, and probably won’t move into Beta for another week or two (we’re a small company so I’m currently the only one working on it) but it will hopefully become a smaller-scale, low-cost alternative to VMware Virtual Labs.
The .NET-to-VIM-service component is almost complete and I should have most of the remaining bugs worked out by the end of the week.

Alex,
Bluewire Technologies

]]> By: David http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/18/assorted-vmware-tools/#comment-32751 David Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:34:34 +0000 http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/07/18/assorted-vmware-tools/#comment-32751 I spend more time doings implementations and migrations then I do operations on VMware and I can't live without ITQ VLan and Portgroup Manager (http://www.run-virtual.com/?page_id=160). Certainly beats setting up (literally hundreds) of portgroups by hand! Also has the ability to send SSH commands to all hosts too which I use a lot for validation of configurations (i.e. check all hosts have the same settings). Dave I spend more time doings implementations and migrations then I do operations on VMware and I can’t live without ITQ VLan and Portgroup Manager (http://www.run-virtual.com/?page_id=160). Certainly beats setting up (literally hundreds) of portgroups by hand!

Also has the ability to send SSH commands to all hosts too which I use a lot for validation of configurations (i.e. check all hosts have the same settings).

Dave

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