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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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VMware vCenter Log Insight Beta available

VMware vCenter Log Insight Beta available

VMware vCenter Log Insight delivers automated log management through log analytics, aggregation and search, extending VMware’s leadership in analytics to log data. With an integrated cloud operations management approach, it provides the operational intelligence and enterprise-wide visibility needed to pro-actively enable service levels and operational efficiency in dynamic hybrid cloud environments. With this tool VMware tries to change the traditional log management tools as there are not suitable for a dynamic hybrid cloud environment. Traditional search-based tools just don’t cut…

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Not chosen for VMworld? Run a #vBrownBag session

Not chosen for VMworld? Run a #vBrownBag session

Yesterday the VMworld team send out e-mails to everyone whose session got chosen. As always there are people who submit a session and hear the news that sadly their session didn’t make it. Did you submit a session, got rejected but still want to share it? Run a #vBrownBag session! The ProfessionalVMware #vBrownBag is a series of online webinars held using GotoMeeting and covering various Virtualization & VMware Certification topics. Want to get in? Just contact them for a presentation…

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Munin plugin: ESXi CPU/memory usage

Munin plugin: ESXi CPU/memory usage

What is Munin? Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and “what just happened to kill our performance?” problems. It is designed to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work. Munin can be installed on any Linux system (and there is a basic Windows version) and works with the plain old server-agent idea. The reason behind this is that you can create custom scripts…

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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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