Eric Sloof

This white paper demonstrates how to successfully implement a hybrid cloud strategy and aims to provide a better understanding of its use case and its potential. The scenario described in this white paper is based on a successful real-world customer implementation by VMware employees who are part of CTO Ambassador group.

This Fling is a graphical user interface (GUI) application to replace digital certificates on the vCenter Server Appliance.  Easily deploy by selecting the components that need digital certificates replaced. This Fling works with vCenter Server Appliance 5.5.

The GUI wizard-based tool helps you by:

• Replacing certificates for vCenter Server, Inventory Service, Log Browzer, and Auto Deploy
• Providing Single-Sign On (SSO) that uses the same certificate as the vCenter Server certificate
• Collecting backups of previously deployed certificates and associated files
• Providing tool level logging

Download Certificate Manager for vCenter Server Appliance 5.5

If you are a virtualization professional who wants to unleash the power of automation and combat the complexity of sprawling virtual environments, this book is ideal for you. This book will enhance your skills of administering VMware vSphere and vCloud Director with PowerCLI.

• Configure and administer VMware ESXi hosts, clusters, and vCenter
• Manage virtual machine configurations and operations
• Administer datastores, datastore clusters, and virtual machine snapshots
• Create and configure virtual networking in a vSphere environment
• Manage cluster features and affinity groups
• Make custom reports and notifications from vSphere
• Direct operations in vCloud Director

PowerCLI allows faster administration by executing tasks on groups of objects in the virtual environment and is flexible enough to allow complex, scripted routines to solve complex problems.

PowerCLI Cookbook illustrates the ease of performing repetitive tasks using native PowerCLI commands to speed up administration. This book teaches you how to create custom functions and modules to solve specific problems and deploy these solutions to operators. It covers all vSphere administration areas including host, cluster, and virtual machine management utilizing PowerCLI.

Finally, this book will enable administrators to execute scripts that will open new possibilities for automation and also enable them to manage VM workloads effectively.

PowerCLI Cookbook - Sample Chapter

RVTools is a windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts. Interacting with VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX Server 3.5, ESX Server 3i, VirtualCenter 4.x, ESX Server 4.x, VirtualCenter 5.0, VirtualCenter Appliance, ESX Server 5.0, VirtualCenter 5.1, ESX Server 5.1, VirtualCenter 5.5, ESX Server 5.5.

RVTools is able to list information about VMs, CPU, Memory, Disks, Partitions, Network, Floppy drives, CD drives, Snapshots, VMware tools, Resource pools, Clusters, ESX hosts, HBAs, Nics, Switches, Ports, Distributed Switches, Distributed Ports, Service consoles, VM Kernels, Datastores, Multipath info and health checks. With RVTools you can disconnect the cd-rom or floppy drives from the virtual machines and RVTools is able to update the VMware Tools installed inside each virtual machine to the latest version.

What's new in Version 3.7 (March, 2015)

• VI SDK reference changed from 5.0 to 5.5
• Extended the timeout value from 10 to 20 minutes for really big environments
• New field VM Folder on vCPU, vMemory, vDisk, vPartition, vNetwork, vFloppy, vCD, vSnapshot and vTools tabpages
• On vDisk tabpage new Storage IO Allocation Information
• On vHost tabpage new fields: service tag (serial #) and OEM specific string
• On vNic tabpage new field: Name of (distributed) virtual switch
• On vMultipath tabpage added multipath info for path 5, 6, 7 and 8
• On vHealth tabpage new health check: Multipath operational state
• On vHealth tabpage new health check: Virtual machine consolidation needed check
• On vInfo tabpage new fields: boot options, firmware and Scheduled Hardware Upgrade Info
• On statusbar last refresh date time stamp
• On vhealth tabpage: Search datastore errors are now visible as health messages
• You can now export the csv files separately from the command line interface (just like the xls export)
• You can now set a auto refresh data interval in the preferences dialog box
• All datetime columns are now formatted as yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss
• The export dir / filenames now have a formated datetime stamp yyyy-mm-dd_hh:mm:ss
• Bug fix: on dvPort tabpage not all networks are displayed
• Overall improved debug information

The Ruby vSphere Console comes bundled with both the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) and the Windows version of vCenter Server. RVC is quickly becoming one of the primary tools for managing and troubleshooting Virtual SAN environments. 

This white paper is intended for vSphere architects, administrators, developers and any others who are interested in deploying, managing or maintaining a Virtual SAN infrastructure. To glean the most out of this document, it will help to be familiar with vSphere infrastructure, Virtual SAN hardware as well as VM provisioning workflows.