It does seem that VMware is incorporating a lot of these things with releases. I do know there are a couple svmotion plugins for the GUI. It definitely makes it a lot nicer. We've used this one from Andrew Kutz for a good 6 or 7 months and have had no issues with it.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vip-svmotion/ -----Original Message----- From: Greg Mulholland [mailto:g...@krystaltek.com] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 4:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What is Vmware thinking? Yeah.. snaphunter or even better powershell works a treat!. Svmotion would have been cool in the gui but you can do that with powershell as well! -----Original Message----- From: Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 25 April 2009 6:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: What is Vmware thinking? There was a mandated separation of companies between VMware and EMC during the merger. Non-compete, etc. I believe this was in one of the announcements at the time. Well, vKernals looks interesting, I shall have to go look at it. I currently use a PowerShell script to find snapshots. If you are not experimenting with PowerShell and you are managing ESX/Virtual Center, you are seriously missing out. <code> Connect-VIServer -server <virtual_center_server> -protocol https; $snap = Get-VM | Get-Snapshot $snap | select VM, Created, Name, Description </code> Steven Peck On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Travis Robinson <travis.robin...@octanner.com> wrote: > I've been using vKernels SearchMyVM > (http://www.vkernel.com/products/SearchMyVM/) for finding things like this. > It has a host of queries and it's FREE. It'll report on VMs with snapshots, > free space on... etc. > > They're also very good with feedback. I suggested a query that will show > which VMs have moved due to user interactin or DRS and they put it in the > release that came out about 2 weeks later. > > > > > > From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:ezi...@lifespan.org] > Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 5:33 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: What is Vmware thinking? > > > > Yeah I just want a simple thing in the giu where I can search on machines > with snapshots, or have them marked with a flag if they di have a snap-shot > because finding the snaps isn't intuitive right now. > > > > Also S-Motion via GUI could be nice, and a way to backup the entire ESX host > via Legato would be nice too, since EMC owns them, I would have already > figured they gotten this hashed out... Naaa, that be too simple... > > > > Z > > > > Edward Ziots > > Network Engineer > > Lifespan Organization > > MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + > > ezi...@lifespan.org > > Phone:401-639-3505 > > ________________________________ > > From: RM [mailto:r...@richardmay.net] > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 4:21 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: What is Vmware thinking? > > > > I just want thin provisioned VMDK's via vCenter, S-VMotion via vCenter, and > the fault tolerance active/passive VM hot spare thingy. :-) > > > > I'll let Wall Street and Main Street hash out the product strategy. > > > > RM > > > > > > > > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:10 -0400, "Ziots, Edward" <ezi...@lifespan.org> > wrote: > > > > http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/ > > > > As an Avid Fan of Vmware and big user of the technology, it seems they are > going the market, and mass confusion route to though something that is no > further along than Vaporware. Eight different offers for ESX? Are they > taking a licensing tip from M$ trying to generate more revenue under the > guise of Cloud computing? > > > > Does anyone in the ESX server space see this in a different light than I am > seeing it as first read? > > > > Z > > > > > > Edward Ziots > > Network Engineer > > Lifespan Organization > > MCSE,MCSA,MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + > > ezi...@lifespan.org > > Phone:401-639-3505 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
