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New Fling: Application View for vCenter Site Recovery Manager by VMware Labs

New Fling: Application View for vCenter Site Recovery Manager by VMware Labs

VMware Labs released a new Fling called Application View for vCenter Site Recovery Manager. The download is available as 7z (can be openened with 7-zip) and is about 760MB. Quote taken from the Fling page: Application View for vCenter Site Recovery Manager shows the application dependencies between virtual machines in a disaster recovery site. This tool is packaged as a standalone virtual appliance, which can be easily set up in an environment which runs vCenter, vCenter Site Recovery Manager, and…

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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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