As VMware vSphere DRS has become more widely adopted now, more and more users are interested in knowing how it works. They need more insights into DRS activity and actions. They want to know the value that DRS provides to their clusters. DRS Lens is an attempt to provide a UI-based solution to help understand DRS …

The Host Profiles CLI Fling (hostprofilescli) is a command-line utility that allows vSphere administrators to perform several operations with Host Profiles that are either not currently possible through existing user interfaces, or possible only through graphical interfaces. Recall that Host Profiles is a feature of …

vCenter Cluster Performance Tool is a Powershell script that uses vSphere PowerCLI to obtain performance data for a cluster by aggregating information from individual hosts. You have the following options to specify in the script. An “interval” of 20s or 300s. The default is 20s, and corresponds to real time …

Get the new Fling: ESXi Learnswitch! Get the new Fling: ESXi Learnswitch! This Learnswitch Fling is developed as a full fledged MAC Learning feature on a DVS. VMware Social Media Advocacy

New Fling: Cross vCenter VM Mobility - CLI New Fling: Cross vCenter VM Mobility - CLI Cross vCenter VM Mobility - CLI is a command line interface (CLI) tool that can be used to migrate or clone a VM from one host to another host managed by a linked or isolated vCenter (VC) instance. VMware Social Media Advocacy

Yesterday VMware released a new version of the ESXi embedded host client. The ESXi Embedded Host Client is a native HTML and JavaScript application and is served directly from your ESXi host! It should perform much better than any of the existing solutions. Please note that the Host Client cannot be used to manage …

DRS Doctor is a command line tool that can be used to diagnose DRS behavior in VMware vCenter clusters. When run against a DRS enabled cluster, it records information regarding the state of the cluster, the work load distribution, DRS moves, etc., in an easy to read log format. The goal of DRS Doctor is to give VI …