VMTN Blog

It seems to be the summer holiday season cause the amount of blog posts decreased over the last week or so. Now don't get me wrong, the quality of the posts did not change. Especially the first two by Alan and Bouke, although I'm not talking about the quality of the info but about the quality of the tools they wrote, are amazing. Enjoy,

• Bouke Groenescheij - CPUBusier
  Remember the good 'old CPUBusy script used during the VMware Install & Configure training? Well I wanted to have something which allows you to control the load. So I created this little piece of software called CPUBusier.
• Alan Renouf - PowerCLI Daily Report
  I have been using this script for the past month and it has highlighted a number of issues which would have been harder to find without it.Daily Report does what it says on the tin, it runs as a scheduled task before you get into the office to present you with key information about your infrastructure in a nice easily readable format.This script picks on the key areas of the virtual infrastructure and reports it all in one place so all you do in the morning is check your email.
• Alan Murphy - Choosing between Azure and VMM Private Clouds
  I do like the idea of them embracing private clouds with VMM, a logical step when competing against VMware and vCloud, but then I pause. Will Azure ever compete against vCloud? vCloud is designed to allow enterprise customers to build a services-based application bundle in-house (ie running in a private cloud) and then push that entire application service bundle up to a service provider also running VMware and supporting vCloud (ie the public cloud). Build at home, push to the cloud. Makes sense. When people think private cloud, they think vCloud.
• Hany Michael - VMware vCenter AppSpeed 1.0 first look!
  The AppSpeed is not meant to replace any of your existing monitoring tools that you are happy with. It’s another great visibility tool for doing that, not to mention the SLA part and the integration with the vCloud technologies. I just wanted to tell you that you still need this even if you are a VMware expert who knows how to use the traditional tools for performance analysis.
• Greg Lato - VMware Network Port List
  One of the recurring requests I hear from my clients is for a list or diagram showing the network ports that are used by the various VMware products and components.  Thanks to some of my VMware Professional Service Colleagues for creating and allowing me to share with you the VMware Network Port List.  I’ll keep this under the VMW Launchpad section of the blog and try to update it as time permits.