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I/O Analyzer is a virtual appliance solution for storage performance measurement for large scale ESX clusters deployment.

Statsfeeder is a tool that enables performance metrics to be retrieved from vCenter and sent to multiple destinations, including 3rd party systems.

View Pool Manager is a Fling that allows VMware View administrators to easily manage users across desktop pools and security groups.

Auto Deploy GUI is a front end interface to the Auto Deploy/Stateless infrastructure.

This is a PowerShell script written to help customers validate their environment and assess if it is ready for a 5.1.x upgrade.

VMware vCenter has provided sophisticated resource management controls (to set resource reservations, limits, shares, etc.) for virtual machines since vCenter 2.0.

Makyo lets you copy virtual machines and vApps from one vCenter Server to another using a wizard in the vSphere Web Client.

SilverLining provides a vCloud Director 5.1 SDK for Javascript. This allows you to build a simplified interface for vCloud Director that works from any modern web-browser that supports HTML5, CSS and Javascript.

We imagine that many of you have been waiting eagerly for this moment when we announce the grand prize winner of our first Open Innovation Contest.

This script performs a Controlled Recompose of a VMware View Linked Clone Pool of Virtual Desktops. It first identifies a free desktop and recomposes it to create the first Replica Desktop.

vcd-nclient aims to be a quick start for using the new Notifications feature in vCloud Director v1.5.

Lctree is a tool designed for the visualization of linked clone VM trees created by VMware vCloud Director. Linked clone is a feature available in vSphere that creates a clone of a VM from a snapshot point.

The ThinApp Factory is a virtual appliance that brings centralized administration and automation to the process of creating virtualized Windows applications with VMware ThinApp technology.

VMware believes that external collaboration is essential to true innovation. VMware Labs is happy to call attention to a tool of interest for Flings followers called PAPI. Our academic partner the University of Tennessee created and publishes PAPI.

The VIB Author tool allows ESXi administrator to create custom VIBs at the Community Supported level. VIB stands for vSphere Installation Bundle and is a way of packaging programs that run on ESXi hosts. The custom VIBs can then be used in house, or made available to a wider audience.

Vmss2core is a tool to convert VMware checkpoint state files into formats that third party debugger tools understand. It can handle both suspend (.vmss) and snapshot (.vmsn) checkpoint state files (hereafter referred to as a ‘vmss file’) as well as both monolithic and non-monolithic (separate .vmem file) encapsulation of checkpoint state data.

vFabric Data Director Service Gateway for Cloud Foundry enables service providers to deliver a vFabric Postgres database-as-a-service solution based on CloudFoundry.org and vFabric Data Director.

VMware Boomerang is a radically simple client application that allows you to use multiple vSphere servers simultaneously.

GuestReclaim reclaims dead space from NTFS volumes hosted on a thin provisioned SCSI disk. The tool can also reclaim space from full disks and partitions, thereby wiping off the file systems on it. As the tool deals with active data, please take all precautionary measures understanding the SCSI UNMAP framework and backing up important data.

gemcached is a memcached server written in Java that understands memcached’s ASCII protocol and translates it into GemFire operations.