VMware’s engineers published another free tool on VMware Labs. The new fling (VMware Workspace ONE Provisioning Tool) helps you to test and validate applications. Let’s review VMware Workspace ONE Provisioning Tool.
OpenSCAP is an auditing tool that utilizes the Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF). XCCDF is a standard way of expressing checklist content and defines security checklists. It also combines with other specifications such as CPE, CCE, and OVAL, to create a SCAP-expressed checklist that can be processed by SCAP-validated products.
The version of FreeNAS has been updated, and pfSense replaces FreeSCO as the router, these changes make AutoLab more stable and reliable at the cost of much larger downloads. Each AutoLab package is around 2GB in size, so you should only download the version you will use.
The Security Compliance Toolkit (SCT) is a set of tools that allows enterprise security administrators to download, analyze, test, edit, and store Microsoft-recommended security configuration baselines for Windows and other Microsoft products.
VMware Logon Monitor monitors Windows user logons and reports a wide variety of performance metrics intended to help administrators, support staff, and developers troubleshoot slow logon performance. Metrics include, but are not limited to, logon time, CPU/memory usage, and network connection speed. VMware Logon Monitor also receives metrics from other VMware products which provide even more clues about what is happening during the logon flow.
VMware vSAN Hybrid TCO and Sizing Calculator Virtual SAN or vSAN is a software-defined storage (Hyper Converged) for VMware vSphere environments. Main goal of sing vSAN in VMware vSphere environments, is reducing implementing cost. So calculating TCO and device sizing will help to achieve better results. As vSAN technology owner, VMware has provided an online tool for calculating TCO and sizing for vSAN. The online tool is very useful for IT administrator to find cost of vSAN implementation with different scenarios. The online tool has four different sections: Sizing Inputs: You should fill the sizing inputs form with some information about your environment. Sizing Results: The online tool will calculate results according to the sizing inputs and show the result on this section. TCO Input: You should enter required information for Total Cost of Ownership. TCO Results: According to the information, the tool will calculate and shows the result for TCO calculation. Sizing Inputs This section is using for enter virtualization environment specifications. You must specify the some important information for the online tool to calculating vSAN TCO and sizing. The online tool can calculate requirements according to virtualization platform, there is two platforms for calculations: Server Virtualization Desktop Virtualization The online...
Intel Data Center Modernization Estimator is an online tool for project server sizing. Based on Intel IT’s methodology for determining the appropriate server sizing for our scale-up enterprise resource planning (ERP) environment, this tool allows you to enter data about your existing data center environment and evaluate the optimal servers for your project life cycle.
STOR2RRD is a free and useful tools for SAN and storage performance and health monitoring. The tool is developed by XORUX. STOR2RRD supports wide range of SAN switches and SAN storage from most vendors.
The tool offers you end-to-end views of your storage environment including NAS and SAN and can save you significant money in operation monitoring and by predicting utilization bottlenecks in your virtualized environment.
You can also generate policy-based alerts, view overall health status of your systems, provide capacity reports and forecasting data.
LPAR2RRD is a free tool for performance monitoring on server environments. It’s support IBM Power Systems and VMware vSphere. LPAR2RRD can retrieve the platforms performance data without install any agent like VMware vCenter or HMC (Hardware Management Console).
Also there is an agent for extending data collecting and also the tool supports NMON files for collecting data from operating systems.
Ubuntu OVA As you may know, VMware Horizon View supporting some Linux desktop distribution as virtual desktop from VMware Horizon View 7.x, it means that you can deliver Linux desktops to users. There is many performance recommendations about delivering virtual desktops to users and should be considered by administrators on any operating systems. Most administrators are familiar with Windows OS but few of them are expert in Linux. There is many guides and tools for Windows optimization such as VMware OS Optimization Tool but there isn’t enough official guides and tools for Linux. Ubuntu is most popular Linux desktop and server distributions and VMware’s engineers made a virtual appliance for using as virtual desktop by installing Ubuntu desktop on virtual machine. The image contains two scripts, first script will optimize Ubuntu machine for using as virtual desktop and second script will assist you about VMware Horizon View Agent installation. Requirements User permissions to deploy OVA/OVF Optimization script requires VM to have network access VM must be able to resolve https://raw.githubusercontent.com Domain Admin privileges (if joining to the domain) vSphere 6.0 U2, or later vSphere 6.5 or later ESXi 6.0 U2 or later Horizon Connection Server 7.1 or later Horizon Client 4.4 or later Comprehensive...
What’s HPE Server Options Compatibility Tool? HPE Server Options Compatibility Tool is an online application designed to assist datacenter administrators and designers with qualified options details with reserve compatibility for particular platforms including Rack, Tower, Blade Systems, Synergy, HyperScale and storage devices. Using HPE Server Options Compatibility Tool At the welcome page (Home Page), there are two choices: My Server: Find all compatible components with a server or storage device. My Options: Find all devices that compatible with selected component. My Server This is an option to find compatible components with server and storage devices. The various parts of this page are: Family: Includes most server and storage family such a 3PAR storages and ProLiant servers. Generation: After choosing device family, the generation of the family will show on this table. Server: All generation members will be available on the table and components information will display according to the this selection. Search: This is a search box to finding device faster by entering the device name. After choosing the device, the compatible components information will display. The components includes: Processor Memory Hard Disk Drives Solid State Drives Power Supplies Networking (Compatible Network Interface Cards) Storage Controller Computational and Graphic Accelerators Power Distribution...
VMware Tools Client VMware Tools Client is a beta tools to interact with VMs without network connectivity. May know, there is some vSphere API that developers can write some codes and developing their tools for vSphere environments. VMware Tools Client written by Pierre Lainé is a useful tool to managing virtual machines via vSphere Guest API and VMware Tools. The tool developed by Java, so JRE or JDK should installed on manage machine. As Java is cross-platform run-time, so VMware Tools Client will run on any machine, Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac. VMware Tools Client allows administrators to: Upload and download files between management client machine and virtual machine. Run scripts to reconfigure operating system, troubleshooting and other tasks. Troubleshooting network by ping some addresses from within the virtual machine. VMware Tools Client be able to connect to vCenter and load vCenter inventory, so administrators can select and manage any virtual machine. PowerCLI also provides commands such as Invoke-VMScript to run script or batch via VMware Tools on virtual machines but VMware Tools Client is more featured. It’s beta version yet but available on this link for public download: Download Link Screenshots:
As you may know, CPU Ready is one of important metrics that you should consider them for deeper monitoring or troubleshooting performance issues on your machines.
NMONVisualizer NMONVisualizer is a Java GUI tool for analyzing nmon system files from both AIX and Linux. It also parses IOStat files, IBM verbose GC logs, Windows Perfmon & ESXTop CSV data and JSON data. Download the latest version (2016-02-29). Documentation Click here for an overview presentation.
Three flings are updated by VMware engineers and published during this week and past week. HCIBench This fling is a “Hyper-converged Infrastructure Benchmark” tools and if you have vSAN in your environment, this fling is very useful for you. Changelog Increased Timeout value of client VM disk from 30 seconds to 180 seconds. Disabled client VM password expiration. Disabled client VM OS disk fsck. Set Observer interval to 60 seconds to shrink the size of observer data. Fixed PCPU calculation. Created link directory of /opt/automation/logs, user will be able to review the testing logs in http://HCIBENCH/hcibench_logs/ Increased the RAM of HCIBench from 4GB to 8GB to avoid running out-of-resource issue.
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