VMware Labs released a new Fling called Makyo. The download is available as zip package and the total size is about 2MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: Makyo lets you copy virtual machines and vApps from one vCenter Server to another using a wizard in the vSphere Web Client. The said copy operation from one vCenter Server to another is done by starting an OVF export operation on the source server and an import OVF operation on the target…
VMware Labs released a new Fling called SilverLining – A vCloud Director 5.1 SDK for JavaScript. The download is available as tar.gz package and the total size is about 6MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: SilverLining provides a vCloud Director 5.1 SDK for Javascript. This allows you to build a simplified interface for vCloud Director that works from any modern web-browser that supports HTML5, CSS and Javascript. To demonstrate, there is a reference implementation included which one could use…
VMware Labs released a new Fling called Lctree which is short for Linked Clone Tree Visualizer for vCloud Director. The download is available as tar package and the total size is about 17MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: Lctree is a tool designed for the visualization of linked clone VM trees created by VMware vCloud Director. Linked clone is a feature available in vSphere that creates a clone of a VM from a snapshot point. The new VM’s disks…
VMware Labs released a new Fling called VIB Author. The download is available as RPM package and the total size is about 1GB. The RPM package can be installed on SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP2. Quote taken from the Fling page: The VIB Author tool allows ESXi administrator to create custom VIBs at the Community Supported level. VIB stands for vSphere Installation Bundle and is a way of packaging programs that run on ESXi hosts. The custom VIBs can then…
VMware Labs released a new Fling called Vmss2core Vmss2core. The download is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and the total size is about 5MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: Vmss2core is a tool to convert VMware checkpoint state files into formats that third party debugger tools understand. It can handle both suspend (.vmss) and snapshot (.vmsn) checkpoint state files (hereafter referred to as a ‘vmss file’) as well as both monolithic and non-monolithic (separate .vmem file)…