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New Fling: WebCommander by VMware Labs

New Fling: WebCommander by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called WebCommander. The download is available as ZIP and is about 1.2MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: Have you ever wanted to give your users access to certain virtual infrastructure tasks instead of the entire vCenter Client? WebCommander is a way to do this! WebCommander was designed as a framework to wrap your PowerShell and PowerCLI scripts into an easy-to-access web service. Now you can hand off the tasks your users need by…

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New Fling: Proactive DRS by VMware Labs

New Fling: Proactive DRS by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called Proactive DRS. The download is available as OVA and is about 1.5GB. Proactive DRS was the winning entry in last year’s 2012 Open Innovation Contest. Quote taken from the Fling page: What is ProactiveDRS? It is a way for DRS to react to changes in the virtual cluster, and to act on predicted changes in resource demands before hosts become stressed. For example, if you have a VM that historically uses 100% CPU…

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New Fling: VMware OS Optimization Tool by VMware Labs

New Fling: VMware OS Optimization Tool by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called VMware OS Optimization Tool. The download is available as msi package and is about 4MB. Make sure you also check out the user guide. Quote taken from the Fling page: The VMware OS Optimization Tool helps optimize Windows 7 desktops for use with VMware Horizon View. The optimization tool includes customizable templates to enable or disable Windows system services and features, per VMware recommendations and best practices, across multiple systems. Since most Windows…

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New Fling: VisualEsxtop by VMware Labs

New Fling: VisualEsxtop by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called VisualEsxtop. The download is available as ZIP package and is about 5MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: VisualEsxtop is an enhanced version of resxtop and esxtop. VisualEsxtop can connect to VMware vCenter Server or ESX hosts, and display ESX server stats with a better user interface and more advanced features. Features Live connection to ESX host or vCenter Server Flexible way of batch output Load batch output and replay them Multiple windows…

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New Fling: ESXi Google Authenticator by VMware Labs

New Fling: ESXi Google Authenticator by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called ESXi Google Authenticator. The download is available as VIB package. If you want to make adjustments it is also possible to download the source code. Quote taken from the Fling page: Google Authenticator is a project that provides two-factor authentication by using both a PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) module and a mobile application for generating one-time passcodes. In ESXi Google Authenticator, we modified the source code of Google-Authenticator to enable two-step authentication on…

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