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ConfigCheck

nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:38:10 +0200

Title	ConfigCheck
Company	Tripwire
License	Freeware
Author	Tripwire
Website	http://www.tripwire.com/configcheck/

ConfigCheckTM is a free utility that rapidly assesses the security of VMware ESX 3.5 hypervisor configurations compared to the VMware Infrastructure 3 Security Hardening guidelines. Developed by Tripwire in cooperation with VMware, Tripwire ConfigCheck ensures ESX environments are properly configuredâ€”offering immediate insight into unintentional vulnerabilities in virtual environmentsâ€”and provides the necessary steps towards full remediation when they are not.

MCS Storageview

nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:47:07 +0200

Title	MCS Storageview
Company	MightyCare
License	Freeware
Author	Peter Rudolf
Website	http://www.mightycare.de

Peter Rudolf over at mightycare-solutions released another great (freeware) Tool from Mightycare Solutions to display the logical Partitions of all virtual Maschines on VMware ESX 3.x or Virtual Center 2.x . The Tool can display how many Gigabyte the Customer can save when he decrease the logical partition to a size the VM really need.

RVTools

nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:14:29 +0100

Title	RVTools
Company	RVTools
License	Freeware
Author	Rob de Veij
Website	http://rvtools.deveij.com

RVTools is a small .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDKÂ to displayÂ the version of the installed VMware tools. It also shows if the tools are upgradeable. The button "Upgrade VMware Tools" starts an UpgradeTools_Task for every selected VM. If you think this is useful information please download the application, try it and let me know by mail what you think about it.

VI 2.5 Client Plugin - 37migrations

nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:55:09 +0100

Title	VI 2.5 Client Plugin - 37migrations
Company	l o s t c r e a t i o n s
License	Freeware
Author	Schley Andrew Kutz
Website	http://www.lostcreations.com

The 37migrations plugin was developed in conjunction with 37migrations.com. It increments your VMotion count on the 37migrations server every time a migration event occurs.

VI 2.5 Client Plugin - Invoke

nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:53:57 +0100

Title	VI 2.5 Client Plugin - Invoke
Company	l o s t c r e a t i o n s
License	Freeware
Author	Schley Andrew Kutz
Website	http://www.lostcreations.com

Allows third-party applications to be launched from within the VI 2.5 client using an existing, authenticated session cookie.

VI 2.5 Client Plugin - KeySniffer

nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:53:19 +0100

Title	VI 2.5 Client Plugin - KeySniffer
Company	l o s t c r e a t i o n s
License	Freeware
Author	Schley Andrew Kutz
Website	http://www.lostcreations.com

KeySniffer is an example of how VI 2.5 client plugins can be abused. This plugin sniffs all key strokes that occur within the VI 2.5 client and outputs them to C:\viclientkeystrokes.txt.

VI 2.5 Client Plugin - Console

nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:52:29 +0100

Title	VI 2.5 Client Plugin - Console
Company	l o s t c r e a t i o n s
License	Freeware
Author	Schley Andrew Kutz
Website	http://www.lostcreations.com

Adds an SSH-enabled tab named 'Console' when a host system is selected.

VI 2.5 Client Plugin - RDP

nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:51:22 +0100

Title	VI 2.5 Client Plugin - RDP
Company	l o s t c r e a t i o n s
License	Freeware
Author	Schley Andrew Kutz
Website	http://www.lostcreations.com

Allows for RDP from VMWare Virtual Infrastructure client right click menu

Veeam Backup

nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:26:41 +0100

Title	Veeam Backup
Company	Veeam
License	Commercial
Author	Veeam
Website	http://www.veeam.com

A groundbreaking disaster recovery solution for VMware Infrastructure 3 that combines backup and replication in one product. Veeam Backup is the first solution that combines backup and replication in a single product for fast recovery of your VMware ESX Servers. Backup is easy â€“ recovery can be hard. But with Veeam Backup, fast recovery is easier than you ever thought possible. Backup and Replication in one - Now, with Veeam Backup, organizations can benefit from a unified solution for both backup and replication to protect mission-critical virtual machines from both hardware and software failure.
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VI 2.5 Client Plugin - Add Port Groups

nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:25:55 +0100

Title	VI 2.5 Client Plugin - Add Port Groups
Company	l o s t c r e a t i o n s
License	Freeware
Author	Schley Andrew Kutz
Website	http://www.lostcreations.com

Add Port Groups is a VI 2.5 client plugin that enables the ability to create many port groups at once on many ESX hosts and many virtual switches.

VI 2.5 Client Plugin - SVMotion

nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:56:32 +0100

Title	VI 2.5 Client Plugin - SVMotion
Company	l o s t c r e a t i o n s
License	Freeware
Author	Schley Andrew Kutz
Website	http://www.lostcreations.com

SVMotion is a VI 2.5 client plugin (the FIRST released, third-party plugin in fact) that extends the client's functionality by providing an integrated, graphical tool that can be used to invoke storage VMotion (SVMotion) operations. This plugin is not supported by VMware. In fact, the plugin is not anywhere close to supported by VMware because it is the result of a two-week dive into the inner-workings of the VI client libraries with popular reflection tools (reverse-engineering). l o s t c r e a t i o n s is working on a white paper that describes how to build VI plugins.

VMware Serial Line Gateway

nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:53:28 +0100

Title	VMware Serial Line Gateway
Company	L4Ka
License	Freeware
Author	Volkmar Uhlig
Website	http://l4ka.org/tools/vmwaregateway.php

Volkmar Uhlig has written a nice application called VMware Serial Line Gateway. You can use this tool to debug software running in a virtual machine using the virtual COM port. The VMware Serial Line Gateway redirects the serial traffic to your host OS where you can catch the communication.

Change Reporter for VI 3

nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:46:18 +0100

Title	Change Reporter for VI 3
Company	NetWrix Corporation
License	Freeware / Commercial
Author	NetWrix Corporation
Website	http://www.netwrix.com

Change auditing is an important process for controlling the management of your virtual environment, to limit unauthorized changes and errors in VI3 inventory. Erroneous and unauthorized changes usually occur every day in organizations in which many IT professionals manage different aspects of virtual infrastructure. Such changes can cause failures and outages in your virtual infrastructure. NetWrix Change Reporter for VMware Infrastructure 3 audits all changes and enforces controlled change management processes across your virtual environment. This freeware tool sends a daily report pointing to every change made to your ESX servers, folders, clusters, resource pools, virtual machines, and their hardware (*), including previous and current ("before" and "after") configuration values.

MCS VMStatus

nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:47:09 +0100

Title	MCS VMStatus
Company	mightycare-solutions GmbH
License	Freeware
Author	Peter Rudolf
Website	http://www.mightycare.de

MCS VMStatus application reads a list of Virtual Machines from VMware ESX-Server 3.5 or VMware Virtual Center 2.5 and displays the Status of the VMware Tools version and time sync. With a single click you can change the Sync Guest option with the Host.

MonÃ©t

nospam@example.com (Eric Sloof) — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:37:09 +0100

Title	MonÃ©t
Company	Lostcreations
License	Freeware
Author	Schley Andrew Kutz
Website	http://www.lostcreations.com/code/wiki/vmware

MonÃ©t - MonÃ©t (as in "Count de...") stands for "Monitors Events and Tasks" and monitors an ESX or VirtualCenter? server, recording tasks to standard out, a syslog server, or a Windows event log server. This application teaches several important VI3 SDK concepts: creating property filters, waiting on updates, and creating multi-threaded VI3 SDK utilities. MonÃ©t comes in a variety of flavors; it is currently implemented using Microsoft .NET with C# 2.0, the VI Perl Toolkit, and Java.