VMware LABS – Updated Fling
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.
vSphere HTML5 Web Client
This is one of my favorites, you can use it for managing your vSphere 6 environment via web browser and HTML5.
Changelog
Fling 2.12 – Build 4587215
New Features
- Convert virtual machine(s) to template
- Clone template to template
- Creation of Read-only NFS3 / NFS4.1 datastores
- MEdit Multipathing Policies for Host Storage Devices
Improvements
- Drag and drop virtual machine to a host that has the same datastore and network
- Launch New Virtual Machine wizard from vApp
- Show active filters in the header of grid columns
- Navigating back in a wizard and changing existing selection invalidates next wizard pages
- Device type is now available under VMFS Datastore > Configure > Device Backing
Known Issues
- Question mark icons are displayed in ESXi hardware health monitoring in places where no icons should be displayed.
- Advanced performance charts may fail to size correctly in some instances. Resizing the browser resolves this issue.
Bug Fixes
- Columns are resizable on Select storage page in Create/Clone/Migrate VM workflows.
VMware OS Optimization Tool
You want to have optimized Windows machine for virtual environment and reduce workload on your shared resources and your hosts and deliver better experiences to your customers, so you need to download and optimize your machine by this tool.
Changelog
November 2, 2016, Build b1084
- Template update – Windows 7/8/8.1: Update item “Machine Account Password Changes – Disable” data from 0 to 1 (reg key DisablePasswordChange)
- Template update – Windows 10: “Remove Apps” items default unselected, because removing those apps increases login time for local admin.
- Program issue fix: Template comments from Fling site can not be shown.
- Program issue fix: Rare case crash when switching tab during downloading template.
- Program Enhancement [My Templates & Public Templates] – A new “website” field is available for shared templates, so you can lead users of your template to your own site.
- Program Enhancement [My Templates] – Show template id.
- Program Enhancement [My Templates] – Add “View in Public Templates” button.
- Program Enhancement [Public Templates] – Add textbox to show template description.
- Program Enhancement [Public Templates] – Refresh button can refresh the comments now.
