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VMware Guest Console (VGC) has the following features :

  1. Task Manager
    • List processes running in the Guest
    • Start new programs in the Guest
    • End running processes in the Guest
  2. Mass Deployment
    • Copy programs or scripts to multiple guests and execute them
    • Useful for things such as antivirus installation, agent deployment, test deployment etc.
    All of the above operations can be performed on:
    • a single VM, or
    • all the VMs on a host, or
    • all the VMs on all connected hosts
  3. File Explorer
    1. Provides an interface to access and manage the Guest file system
    2. Copies files from host to guest and vice-versa
    3. Copies files between guests running on any machine
    4. Also supports other basic file system operations like delete, rename, etc.
  4. Snapshot Manager
    1. Displays a comprehensive TREE and LIST view of snapshots on all VMs on all connected hosts
    2. Supports snapshot operations like Create, Delete and Revert with a single user action
    • on a single VM
    • or all the VMs on a host
    • or on all the VMs on all connected hosts
    Mass operations like "delete" can be performed on dynamically selected group of snapshots based on criteria like snapshot names, creation time, power state etc.
  5. VM Manager
    • Displays vital statistics of GuestOS like OS type/version, IP address, tools build number, guest uptime, logged-in user, etc.
    • Displays vital statistics of VM like power state, CPU count, memory, hardware version, storage path, etc.
    • Dynamic teaming allows mass power operations, deployment and snapshot operations on VMs from different hosts/products
  6. Inventory
    • All the information displayed in the VM Manager, Snapshot Manager and Task Manager can be saved for inventory purposes.

VGC can be installed on 32-bit Windows machines with operating systems Windows XP, Windows 2003, and Windows Vista with .NET framework 2.0 or later

VGC can connect to the following:

  • Licensed ESX/ESXi versions 3.5 U2 or later
  • vCenter versions 4.0 or later
  • Server 2.0
  • Workstation 6.5.2 or later

VMware tools must be running in the VMs/GuestOS for Task Manager, Mass Deployment and File Explorer.

Download the zip file. Unzip, run the installer, and follow the on-screen instructions.

Updates in VGC version 1.1.0

  1. Performance and Scalability
    • VM retrieval is enhanced to discover VMs in much less time.
    • VGC can manage up to 315 Powered On VMs on all connected servers. Number of VMs retrieved from a server will be limited once this limit is reached.
  2. Support for 64-bit Windows has been added.
  3. The Remote Console feature has been extended to work with VMs hosted on vCenter.
  4. Workspace files created with this version of VGC will be encrypted. However, workspace files created using earlier versions are not compatible with this release.
  5. VM templates are differentiated from regular VMs.
  6. Workspace files can now be loaded in VGC by double clicking the .vgc files.

Updates in VGC-R1.0.1:

  1. Fixes problem where VGC was not able to retrieve VMs from vCenter folders.
  2. vmrc to open the console of any VM.
  3. Putty to get access to the command window of an ESX server or a Linux VM.
  4. RDP to get access to the console of VC server.

Comments

  1. Any news about this Project ?

    Vincsilver     says:

    Hello,

    Can we expect a new version of this product ?

    We didn't have news since VGS 1.1.0.

    Is this project dead ?

    Regards,
    Vincent

    March 21, 2012 at 1:01 am  |  Reply
    • Jorge says:

      Guys - First I want to thank you for developing this really usefull Tool. But I must echo everyone elses request - When can we expect a new version of this product, to support vSphere 5?

      Sorry if I missed any previous repsonse to my question.

      Thanks again! Jorge

      May 1, 2012 at 2:57 pm  |  Reply

  2. vSphere 5.0.0 and vRD2012

    Alex Groening     says:

    Hello,

    vRD2012 does not work correct with with vSphere 5.
    If I try to connect to the console follwing Error appears.

    Un unhandled exeption has occurred.Please Check you settings.
    Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB-E-CLASSNOTREG)
    See the error log of application or the application event log of the client for additional information.

    Can me help me someone?

    March 21, 2012 at 12:41 am  |  Reply

  3. Update??

    Johan Lundqvist     says:

    When can we expect an update on this "kick-ass" fling?

    November 30, 2011 at 3:33 am  |  Reply

  4. Download Link not working

    Sorabh Kalra     says:

    Download link is not working, anyone else facing the same issue?

    November 21, 2011 at 12:19 am  |  Reply
    • Vincsilver says:

      download link is ok today !

      November 28, 2011 at 8:07 am  |  Reply

  5. Thanks

    Danilo Recchia     says:

    Great job!

    November 9, 2011 at 7:55 pm  |  Reply

  6. VM names show datastore Name

    Anthony Larson     says:
    I am wanting VGC to only show the VM name.
    For my administrator account it shows just the VM name in VGC
    But in my users account it shows the Datastore Name plus the actual file name of the VM in VG... Show more
    October 25, 2011 at 10:54 am  |  Reply

  7. Start Parameter

    HOffmann     says:

    Hello!

    I want Connect direct to a specific ESX Host. Are there any start parameters?

    Thanks for any help

    October 7, 2011 at 1:34 am  |  Reply

  8. ESXi support please

    Rob     says:

    Hurry with ESXi (free) support please!!! This looks like an awesome tool but I can't use it!

    September 16, 2011 at 11:16 am  |  Reply

  9. VM limit of 315

    Ravi     says:

    Hi GUys

    Great job on the tool, one of the best tool i ahve seen so far in my 6+ years of VM administration.
    Now i like it so much that I am hitting a limitation of 315 vms. when will it manage more than that . is there a esx 5 version which can manage like 1000 vms?

    thanks

    --Ravi

    August 23, 2011 at 3:47 pm  |  Reply

  10. Unable to login to Guest on VGC

    singh     says:

    hi
    while trying to login to guest from VGC, i am getting VIX-authentication failure or insufficient permissions in guest operating system. VGC is installed on Windows 2008. Host:VM Server 2.0, GuestOS: Ubunut 10. Thanks

    August 15, 2011 at 8:20 pm  |  Reply

  11. What about OpenStack?

    John the patio furniture guy     says:

    It's good that vmware is constantly getting updated and new versions are being released. But is vmware doing enough to ward off competitors like OpenStack? Cloud computing does seem to be getting more and more popular by the day.

    August 5, 2011 at 10:37 am  |  Reply

  12. Permissions

    Roey Azroel     says:

    Hi,
    First, Cool App! and very useful!

    I have one question - I want my developer to use this application for the same reason as you... less application are open in the same time.

    but if i give two different developers to use Boomerang, and they both have different permissions, Boomerang will know how to show them the VMs that they have permission to control in the vCenter?

    Thanks!

    July 8, 2011 at 1:14 pm  |  Reply
    • Roey Azroel says:

      I meant "VGC" of course, not Boomerang.

      Sorry.

      July 8, 2011 at 1:15 pm  |  Reply

  13. Review: Using the VGC

    Andy     says:

    http://www.vladan.fr/using-the-vmware-guest-console-fling-in-the-lab/

    June 23, 2011 at 7:41 am  |  Reply
  14. Daniel says:

    I really like VGC and I like to see an improved version. Any news about that?

    May 24, 2011 at 5:33 am  |  Reply
    • Chris says:

      Guess it's not going to be updated like they said?

      July 6, 2011 at 6:25 am  |  Reply
  15. Sabarudin says:

    I tried installing VMWare Guest Console vers. 1.1.0 but when I click on “add host” I always get the error “VIX – Failed to connect to host or proxy”, I tried both using “localhost”, my PC computer’s name and its IP address without success.

    OS: Windows server 2003, and VMware Server 2.0.2

    May 19, 2011 at 2:52 am  |  Reply
    • Maxus says:

      I have identical issue, Host CentOS 5.6 x64 Server 2

      June 11, 2011 at 4:44 pm  |  Reply
    • Alan says:

      Same here, no way to connect,

      Seems it is in Alpha testing mode ?

      cheers

      June 12, 2011 at 7:00 pm  |  Reply
    • Viktor says:

      I have tried this way and succeded: "https://127.0.0.1:8333" as hostname.

      Hope that helps. Viktor

      February 20, 2012 at 12:16 pm  |  Reply
  16. Robert Kloosterhuis says:

    It doesnt seem to deal well with permissions. For example, I have a user group that only has read-only permissions on several VM's. While VGC allows the user to login to vcenter, it cannot read any of the vm data like its state, so it reports the vm's offline.

    April 23, 2011 at 7:54 am  |  Reply
  17. Johan Lundqvist says:

    Very useful. Any plans of a new realease anytime soon?

    March 21, 2011 at 3:07 am  |  Reply
    • Uttam from says:

      We are planning to new release on second week of April 2011.

      March 21, 2011 at 1:42 pm  |  Reply
      • Johan Lundqvist says:

        Great news! Thank you!

        April 13, 2011 at 1:17 am  |  Reply
      • Thomas says:

        hmm..second week april 2011 has passed....;)

        is it planned to control esxi with free a license?

        April 18, 2011 at 3:01 am  |  Reply
        • Chris says:

          It's now July!!

          July 6, 2011 at 6:26 am  |  Reply
  18. gi-minni says:

    Cool stuff guys,
    is there any news & dates about the next release?

    March 4, 2011 at 12:27 am  |  Reply
  19. Kendrick Coleman says:

    Best tool on the site. The VM listing isn't showing any VMs that belong to a vApp. Can we get the fully populated VM list?

    Thanks!

    February 25, 2011 at 12:21 pm  |  Reply
  20. AgentDuke says:
    If you guys added a hook into the explorer shell, to allow copying to and from the workstation from the guests, I think you would have a hot ticket item.

    The fact you can download and upload to gu... Show more

    February 10, 2011 at 12:53 pm  |  Reply
  21. Jim says:

    Do you plan to support ESXi? I tried installing VGC because it said it supports ESX and VMWare Server (free), therefore I assumed it would also support ESXi. I was very disappointed when I received the Licensing error :(

    Thank you for your response.
    Jim Mohr

    January 27, 2011 at 10:10 am  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      John, We are working on it and we are hopeful that we will have the support in next release.

      Ravi

      January 28, 2011 at 5:08 pm  |  Reply

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  23. Phil Dalton says:

    OK, just had a try of this.
    Any plans to be able to list the VM's in alphabetical order ? I know you can type the full names to select them, but it makes it a bit of a hassle to use.
    What about Datacentre grouping etc. ?

    Thanks

    January 25, 2011 at 1:47 am  |  Reply
    • Rahul says:

      Phil, We are currently working on the datacenter grouping, filters, ... which should be out in a month. The VMs can be sorted in the alphabetical order in the VM manager tab. You can click on the column headers to sort it accordingly. Did u want an alphabetic listing in the left (tree view) panel?

      January 25, 2011 at 1:54 pm  |  Reply
  24. Patrick Silva says:

    Could you guide me in the related issue Esxi4 version because I'm trying to add the host and gives the error message "This operation is not supported with current license. " I'm with VSphere Client - Version 4.1.0. How should I proceed in this case?

    Cordially

    Patrick

    January 19, 2011 at 11:41 am  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      As the error message indicates, current version of VGC is not supported with free version of ESXi.

      January 19, 2011 at 3:32 pm  |  Reply
  25. Ben says:

    I can connect both a vCenter server and a vSphere 4.1 server. I can see the VM inventory however this app seems to think that all the VMs are powered off, they are on.

    Also, some VMs have a friendly name like 'myServer' and others have a name like [DATASTORE] /path/to/vm.vmx

    January 12, 2011 at 10:54 am  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      You are probably using Free version of ESXi which is not supported with current version of VGC.

      January 12, 2011 at 11:02 am  |  Reply
      • George says:

        I have the same effect when connecting to VC 2.5 latest version.
        The bad thing is I am not able to see the Snapshots for those VM listed with their vmx-path.

        Any Ideas

        George

        March 1, 2011 at 7:18 am  |  Reply
  26. Hillary Whitfield says:

    It would be nice if they can look into vApp as well. For now any VM that is part of a vApp wont get listed

    December 25, 2010 at 1:20 pm  |  Reply
  27. Marisol Perry says:

    To authenticate in the Guest OS (VM), you need to have vmware tools running in the Guest. In case, the tools are not running you would get this warning - Waiting for Guest Tools to Initialize. Unfortunately, at this time Solaris Guest OS is not supported. However, we do plan to support it near future.

    December 21, 2010 at 5:17 pm  |  Reply
  28. Kris says:

    I'm sure you guys have thought of this already, but I have no desire to enter in my credentials in for every guest I want to see tasks for (i.e. Task Manager). In fact, I would suggest an option similar to Microsoft's remote desktop (e.g. http://www.juniata.edu/wiki/sites/default/files/3remote.png)

    December 19, 2010 at 2:44 pm  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:
      You can login to multiple guests at a time in one of the following ways -

      1. selecting the parent node (ESX/VC/My Virtual Console) in the left side tree and then authenticating which will essentia... Show more

      December 21, 2010 at 6:44 pm  |  Reply
  29. Herbert Knavs says:
    Hi

    VGC is a really almost perfect tool and is really great and I appreciate the work you have done to make this tool available for us.

    But... there is always "but" :)...
    Is there any possibilit... Show more

    December 10, 2010 at 12:38 am  |  Reply
  30. Jith says:

    It would be nice if they can look into vApp as well. For now any VM that is part of a vApp wont get listed

    December 6, 2010 at 8:42 pm  |  Reply

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  32. shawn harry says:

    Any plans to port this to UNIX/Linux distributions? Tried running in WINE but the executable fails to launch. Slightly ironic that VMware leverages UNIX for their API's but has little to no support for management from Unix/Linux systems.

    November 7, 2010 at 4:38 am  |  Reply
  33. lior says:

    Hello,
    Can you please tell me how can I copy files from one of the machine to all the machines?, also I would like to know if there is a user manual to VGC and if so where I can download it?
    Thanks

    November 7, 2010 at 2:38 am  |  Reply
  34. Sajal says:
    Ravi/Rahul/Uttam,
    An excellent tool. I have just tried it and it surely is a great tool to minimize administration workload off the System Admins of Virtual environment. Great going. waiting for mor... Show more
    November 2, 2010 at 1:18 am  |  Reply
  35. CHAHWAN Youssef says:

    I downloaded the VMware Guest console, to connect to an ESXI server it works great and the interface is so easy, but when I click the Task Manager tab I get the following message “Waiting for Guest Tools to Initialize”, am I missing something is there any additional files to install in the VM. The VM I have is a Solaris 10 10/08 s10x_u6wos_07b X86

    October 27, 2010 at 12:12 pm  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      To authenticate in the Guest OS (VM), you need to have vmware tools running in the Guest. In case, the tools are not running you would get this warning - Waiting for Guest Tools to Initialize.
      Unfortunately, at this time Solaris Guest OS is not supported. However, we do plan to support it near future.

      October 27, 2010 at 12:14 pm  |  Reply

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  38. Florian says:

    Hello,

    It's indicated
    VGC can connect to -
    Licensed ESX/ESXi versions 3.5 U2 or later

    But i'm trying to connect with an ESXi 4.1 and have this message :
    VIX - This operation is not supported with this current licence.

    is it normal?

    October 5, 2010 at 3:55 am  |  Reply
    • Uttam from says:

      You are probably using Free version of ESXi which is not supported with the current version of VGC.

      October 5, 2010 at 1:44 pm  |  Reply
      • Florian says:

        It's really a bad new !!
        The free version of ESXi will be supported in the next release?

        October 6, 2010 at 6:34 am  |  Reply
        • Uttam from says:

          We are trying hard and hoping next major release of VGC will start working with free ESXi.

          October 7, 2010 at 2:12 pm  |  Reply
          • Florian says:

            Heyyyy!
            It's a very good news!!

            This release is scheduled or no?

            October 13, 2010 at 12:49 pm  |  Reply
            • Uttam from says:

              Next released is not scheduled yet.

              October 13, 2010 at 2:09 pm  |  Reply
  39. Chris says:

    Very handy app, but seeing CPU/Memory would make it *MUCH* more useful for me.

    September 28, 2010 at 10:53 am  |  Reply
    • Chris says:

      to clarify, CPU/Memory on the task manager part.

      September 28, 2010 at 10:54 am  |  Reply
  40. Urs Mueller says:

    Nice tool, but cannot be used with a "licensed" (but free) ESXi 4.0 :-(

    September 26, 2010 at 9:13 am  |  Reply
  41. Jay says:

    On the Host Connect operation I get a status of "Invalid Job Handle" I get this for my vSphere servers and vCenter server. Tried installing on both Vista and XP.

    September 24, 2010 at 7:57 am  |  Reply
    • Uttam from says:

      Hi Jay,
      Could you pl. give us more information about error message. Is it "VIX - Invalid Job Handle" or "VT - Invalid Job Handle" and which version of VC server/ESX Server you are using. You can try to reconnect host after restarting VGC.

      September 24, 2010 at 9:43 am  |  Reply
      • Jay says:

        I am receiving 'VT - Invalid Job handle' Running vCenter Server Version 4.0.0, 162856

        November 16, 2010 at 7:58 am  |  Reply
        • Uttam from says:

          Thanks for this info, can you pl. give me more information about the particular set of operations you were performing.

          November 19, 2010 at 2:07 pm  |  Reply
  42. Ravi says:
    If I understand the use case correctly, what you are trying to do is mass copy a text file or document and open it with the default editor set on the machine. The deploy is not built to open the defa... Show more
    September 23, 2010 at 4:53 pm  |  Reply
  43. Alan says:

    Great program! I was wondering, is it possible to do a mass copy of a non-executable, i.e text or pdf file and have it executed?

    September 22, 2010 at 11:20 pm  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:
      If I understand the use case correctly, what you are trying to do is mass copy a text file or document and open it with the default editor set on the machine. The deploy is not built to open the defau... Show more
      September 23, 2010 at 4:53 pm  |  Reply

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  45. jb says:

    Hi,
    I can connect to the vcenter server fine, but when I try to run a task just keep getting errormessage: "VIX - A file was not found".
    What am I doing wrong?

    September 15, 2010 at 5:37 am  |  Reply
    • jb says:

      figured it out. When choosing to "Deploy host program in Guest", I had to check "Save Program File" to make it work. Now it works like a charm!

      September 15, 2010 at 6:42 am  |  Reply
  46. j2 says:

    Hey great work and thanks for this useful tool, one little suggestion, if you guys can add password repository for vm log in on your next release, that will save us great amount of time when logging in thousands of vms with common administrator credential.

    September 14, 2010 at 7:18 pm  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      All the information about connected hosts, Host & VM authentication information, Active tool/tab etc can be saved in the VGC workspace files. Using the .vgc workspace files you can restore tool into same state as when you saved the workspace, including the VM authentication.

      September 15, 2010 at 11:17 am  |  Reply

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  48. Richard Powers says:

    Thanks to David Davis for pointing me to this site. Didn't know it existed before VMworld 2010. RDP authentication with pass thur creds.... Very Cool might make me think of giving up my visionapo tool :)

    September 8, 2010 at 12:05 pm  |  Reply
  49. -jeff says:

    Very nice tool. I Like other posts, id like to be able to sort, by name or cluster and possibly by OS type. Also, if I can restart services from here too would be great! Keep up the good work!

    September 8, 2010 at 10:13 am  |  Reply
    • Rahul says:
      Hi Jeff,
      Thanks for your feedback. We have received numerous requests for search/sort, categorizing the VMs. We have added it to our P0 list & will work on it as time permits.
      For restart servi... Show more
      September 9, 2010 at 2:34 pm  |  Reply
  50. peter says:

    Hi,

    I've tried the VGC, but for File Explorer, and Task Manager I received "VIX-This operation is not supported with current license"

    What's the problem?

    Thanks.

    September 2, 2010 at 11:52 pm  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      You are probably using Free version of ESXi which is not supported with the current version of VGC.

      September 3, 2010 at 10:35 am  |  Reply
  51. RameshGeddam says:

    Very effective. Is there a way we can fetch processes run in a Linux VM, and kill them accordingly?

    August 30, 2010 at 7:46 am  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      VGC works similarly for both Windows and Linux VMs. So if you login into a Linux VM you should be able to manage the processes just like you did for Windows.

      August 30, 2010 at 10:26 am  |  Reply
  52. hedak says:
    It’s a really great tool! But i have one problem:

    Up- and downloading takes extremely long using VGC. 1 mb needs more then 10 seconds. Uploading files to ESXi host’s datastore using vSphereClie... Show more

    August 29, 2010 at 10:24 pm  |  Reply
  53. KOM says:
    Nice app. I had it running for awhile in the background and it crashed out. Not much detail but here is what I have:

    Faulting application vgc.exe, version 1.0.0.0, stamp 4bfddfc3, faulting modu... Show more

    August 27, 2010 at 11:51 am  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      Can you provide some more information about your setup and the state of VGC where it was left running i.e. the active tab (task manager, file explorer etc), # of powered on and logged in vms etc ?

      August 27, 2010 at 12:55 pm  |  Reply
  54. hedak says:
    It's a really great tool! But i have one problem:

    Up- and downloading takes extremely long using VGC. 1 mb needs more then 10 seconds. Uploading files to ESXi host's datastore using vSphereClient i... Show more

    August 27, 2010 at 4:58 am  |  Reply
  55. Gavin Warner says:

    Hi, came across this utility while searching for a solution to deploy a batch file to my VM's. I think that the program is superb, looking forward to the sort / filter functionality so we can identify VM's easier.

    August 26, 2010 at 7:10 am  |  Reply
  56. witjojo says:

    Hello,

    i have a vmware server 2.0.2 on opensuse 11.2 installed. An i get no connection to the server. Port 902 ist available (testet with telnet). Port 902 ist also open on port 902. When i try to connect i get the message: VIX: A problem occurred during the ssl/tls handshake!
    Can anyone help me please!

    thanks
    witjojo

    August 18, 2010 at 1:15 pm  |  Reply
    • Tony felice says:

      Had the same problem. Noticed that the client was trying to connect to TCP port 443, which is in use by Apache in my case, and in any even I don't thing VMware Server ever uses it. Try 'lsof -i tcp -nn" to see if vmware-hostd is listening on port 8333. If so, add :8333 to the end of the hostname or IP address you're entering in VGC. That worked for me.

      August 20, 2010 at 10:58 am  |  Reply
  57. Cliff Hobbs says:

    Any plans to port this to Fusion for us Mac users?

    August 3, 2010 at 1:14 am  |  Reply
    • scott boss says:

      Please support Fussion!

      August 19, 2010 at 4:30 pm  |  Reply
  58. Sebastian Kayser says:
    The file explorer feature is sooo handy, thanks alot!

    Is there any filter feature for the VM list so that it is easier to select a particular VM in the left hand pane? We have about 150 VMs in our ... Show more

    August 2, 2010 at 6:01 am  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      Currently there is no feature to filter vms in the left pane but we plan to add it for the next release. Thanks for your feedback.

      August 2, 2010 at 3:27 pm  |  Reply
    • Lutz Girard says:

      You can enter the first character of name of the vm. The selection jumps to the first or next finding.

      August 12, 2010 at 12:59 am  |  Reply
      • witjojo says:

        I have a VMware Server Version 2.0.2 Build 203138 on opensuse 11.2.
        When i try to connect i get the message:
        VIX - A problem occurred during the ssl/tls handshake
        What is the problem with ssl/tls?
        Maybe this problem in this context: http://planetvm.net/blog/?p=1087

        "Proxysvc SSL Handshake on client connection failed: SSL Exception"

        Can anyone help please!

        Thanks
        witjojo

        August 12, 2010 at 4:49 pm  |  Reply
  59. Clive says:
    The main reason I downloaded this software was the promised ability to
    Copy files from host to guest and vice-versa.

    I have VMware 7 with Enterprise Linux installed on Windows Vista O/S host. I i... Show more

    July 6, 2010 at 2:26 pm  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      The terminal is actually a putty to the guestOS and does not provide any special functionality to copy files between host and guest. Pl use the "File Explorer" tab which will allow you to perform the file system management.

      July 6, 2010 at 2:32 pm  |  Reply
  60. Kulbinder says:

    Unfortunately, this utility will not connect to a free ESXi 4.0 server.

    Allowing a "READ-ONLY" mode would be a great enhancement, just like vCMA.

    July 4, 2010 at 8:46 am  |  Reply
  61. Robert Goto says:

    Very nice utility! Are there any plans to enable one to clone a VM to template or convert a VM to template and convert a template back to a VM? How about deploying a VM from template or clone? They would be useful additions.

    June 28, 2010 at 8:06 pm  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      Clone and template operations are not planned in the near future. Thanks for your feedback.

      July 1, 2010 at 9:45 pm  |  Reply
  62. David Nixon says:
    Nice utility. Due to our need to retain data for an extended period but unable to leave a server on the network due to lack of security patches, we migrated a physical box to a VM. I had hoped that ... Show more
    June 23, 2010 at 8:55 am  |  Reply
    • Rahul says:
      Hi David,
      Once you have logged-in to the VM, the file explorer should allow you to browse through the guest file system, upload, download file/folder from guest to client & also copy across guest... Show more
      June 23, 2010 at 12:18 pm  |  Reply
  63. Markus says:

    Would be cool if I could use a Domain User for all hosts so I don' t have to login to each vm.
    But anything else on this tool is great

    June 17, 2010 at 12:56 am  |  Reply
    • Uttam from says:
      There is one option called mass login. If all VMs have the same user name and password then you can do mass login on all VMs by clicking the hostname or "My Virtual Console". If user name is differen... Show more
      June 17, 2010 at 10:16 am  |  Reply
  64. Dennis says:
    Looks like this does everything except what I really need - the ability to show all of the desktops for all of the virtual PC's running on one physical box simultaneously. I have a PC with VMware wor... Show more
    June 14, 2010 at 8:50 am  |  Reply
    • Rahul says:
      Dennis,
      If you're looking for a tool to monitor a particular task across a group of VMs, start another task (eg: silent install) in case this process is currently not running, it can be easily accom... Show more
      June 14, 2010 at 5:04 pm  |  Reply
    • Uttam from says:

      Hi Dennis

      I think this tool may help.
      http://labs.vmware.com/flings/mkstaskbarplugin.

      June 25, 2010 at 9:52 am  |  Reply
  65. Derek says:
    I love this tool! I would however like to be able to employ as a productivity tool for individual projects in our organisation e.g. they could use to administer only VMs to which they have access on t... Show more
    June 13, 2010 at 2:33 am  |  Reply
    • Rahul says:
      Derek,
      VGC complies to the roles & access privileges imposed through VC. As an Administrator you can grant permissions for a particular user/s (say XYZ) to only view & perform power operatio... Show more
      June 13, 2010 at 4:58 pm  |  Reply
  66. Rob says:

    Will the Task Manager section be able to display the Memory or CPU usage in the future?

    June 4, 2010 at 7:58 am  |  Reply
    • Rahul says:

      That's the plan :). Do you have specific use case for which you need this information?

      June 4, 2010 at 1:10 pm  |  Reply
  67. Gerard says:

    Still have a problem retrieving VM's from Virtual Center. Its stuck at the "Retrieving VMs" message.

    June 3, 2010 at 10:07 am  |  Reply
    • Uttam from says:

      Did you update VGC1.0.1 to VGC1.1.0? If you have more than 300 poweredON VMs then it might take 2-3 minutes to retrieve VMs

      June 3, 2010 at 10:48 am  |  Reply
      • Gerard says:

        It has been running for over 30 minutes and still the same message. Any suggestions?

        June 3, 2010 at 7:32 pm  |  Reply
        • Rahul says:
          Gerard,
          The issue could be specify to your setup. If you can send us the logs we can debug through this issue further.

          --Procedure to collect logs--

          a.) Set the environment variable VT_DEBUG_LE... Show more

          June 3, 2010 at 10:44 pm  |  Reply
          • Gerard says:

            I have created the logs and email them to your account.

            June 4, 2010 at 7:17 am  |  Reply
          • Gerard says:

            I cant find your email on the website what is your email so I can send you the logs.

            June 4, 2010 at 7:29 am  |  Reply
            • Gerard says:

              It finally opened after about 20 minutes or so.

              June 4, 2010 at 10:05 am  |  Reply
            • Uttam from says:

              It might be possible that any one of VM is in different state, it means that it needs some attention from user. If you connect server from VI client then pl. make sure that any of the VM should not associated with red icon (error condition). If you still have problem then pl. provide a logs to us.
              pl. mail to ugupta@vmware.com

              June 4, 2010 at 10:11 am  |  Reply
  68. Ole Thomsen says:

    Thanks for the update and x64 support.

    Enumerating VMs is MUCH faster now.

    A great tool!

    June 2, 2010 at 7:23 pm  |  Reply

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  70. Sarwar says:

    Hi,

    Are you planning to relase MAC OSX 64 bit?

    Thanks

    June 2, 2010 at 9:32 am  |  Reply
    • Rahul says:

      Hi Sarwar,
      VGC is supported only in windows platform currently. Support for other platforms is not planned for in the immediate future. It shall be added based on demand.

      June 2, 2010 at 9:49 am  |  Reply
  71. isnogood says:

    Are you planning 64 bit version? This version won't start on Windows 7 64bit

    May 28, 2010 at 1:56 am  |  Reply
    • Rahul says:

      A newer version supporting Win x64 arch has been uploaded this morning.

      May 28, 2010 at 11:15 am  |  Reply
  72. Gerard says:

    I am trying to connect to my Vcenter server using my AD credentials when I put in the machine name it does not connect gives an error of "VIX - Unable to connect to host". When I use the FQDN I am able to connect but it does not get pass the "retrieving vms" message. Any ideas?

    Thanks..

    May 20, 2010 at 9:28 am  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      Can you tell us more about your infrastructure - ESX and VC versions, number of hosts, vms etc ?

      May 20, 2010 at 9:32 am  |  Reply
      • Gerard says:

        We have 4 Cluster 2-4 host in each cluster running a mix of ESX 3.5 and 4.0. Were running Vcenter 4 and have about 300 VM's in our environment.

        May 20, 2010 at 11:20 am  |  Reply
        • Ravi says:

          In the current version of VGC, we have found some problems while retrieving VMs in large infrastructures. The issue will be resolved in next version of VGC which we will be rolling out very soon. In the mean time, I would recommend you to try connecting to the ESX server directly.

          May 20, 2010 at 11:49 am  |  Reply
          • Gerard says:

            Thanks Ravi..

            May 21, 2010 at 8:21 am  |  Reply
  73. mq says:

    Does it support VMplayer?
    When I add host type as workstation, user name and password greyed out. How do you connect then?

    May 20, 2010 at 8:27 am  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      VGC has not been tested against Player but you should be able to connect to it using the host type - Workstation. However, note that snapshot operations are not supported on Player. Username and password are not required when connecting to Workstation of a local machine, hence they are grayed out.

      May 20, 2010 at 9:37 am  |  Reply
      • mq says:

        Thank you.
        Are you planning to support connecting to multiple remote workstations so that VGC has a single view for all workstations?

        May 20, 2010 at 11:35 am  |  Reply
        • Ravi says:

          Not really in the near future.

          May 20, 2010 at 11:42 am  |  Reply
  74. Robin says:

    It would be cool if you included an interface into Computer Management (compmgmt.msc).
    Then I could add users to admin group, create/change local shares, etc on multiple vms without logging it.

    Really like the idea of this client though!

    May 20, 2010 at 5:17 am  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      Thanks for your feedback. We will definitely consider this for future releases.

      May 20, 2010 at 9:40 am  |  Reply
  75. fred says:

    I have installed this on Win7 x64 and on WinXP, but when I doubleclick the icon, nothing happens at all... .Net is installed. What could be wrong?

    May 8, 2010 at 9:29 pm  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:
      VGC is not natively supported on 64 bit OS. However there is a workaround to make this work –

      1 - Install Corflags so download .NET JDK from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?famil... Show more

      May 8, 2010 at 10:29 pm  |  Reply
    • Uttam from says:
      Current version of VGC doesn't support 64 bit OS, but there is some workaround to run on 64 bit os:
      To do this you must run the CorFlags utility from the Windows SDK (http://stackoverflow.com/questi... Show more
      May 9, 2010 at 11:01 am  |  Reply
  76. Fred says:

    Will this tool allow me to copy a file from a guest os to the esx console filesystem (datastore eg to folder /vmimages)?

    May 8, 2010 at 1:31 am  |  Reply
    • Uttam from says:

      This tool does not allow to access vmfs file system of ESX server.

      May 8, 2010 at 5:37 pm  |  Reply
  77. Massimo Montecchi says:

    Great Job!
    Anyway I'm not able to use it in my ESXi 3.5 U5 environment.
    I'm able to connect to my ESXi host, but all the VMs are stopped (even if someone are started) and if I tray to start I have an error.
    Thanks!

    May 5, 2010 at 5:36 am  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      Can you pl post details of the error that you are getting ?

      May 8, 2010 at 10:31 pm  |  Reply
  78. aenagy says:

    Nice!

    I would like to recommend that you use vCenter for your next demo video. Giving virtual machine administrators the root password to our ESXi hosts is a non-starter.

    May 3, 2010 at 8:10 am  |  Reply
  79. Gonzalo Parra says:

    Great Tool! Congratulations!

    The Save feature is very useful to save your connections and logins for all VMs but it is very unsecure, the username and passwords are saved in clear text inside the .VGC file, it would be great if this information is encrypted and also if you can configure a password on a .VGC file so you cannot open the file without it...

    Please continue the good work!

    G

    April 24, 2010 at 8:21 pm  |  Reply
  80. ideFix1505 says:
    You want to log in different VMs, but you don't have the time to klick on each VM to log on?
    Then klick on the ESX host, virtual machines tab and mark all VMs with the same user and password. After t... Show more
    April 23, 2010 at 5:22 am  |  Reply
  81. huiming says:

    I have VC installed on my desktop, and VCG add local host using host type "VC server".
    I found VMs listed in inventory. But I can not open console for them.
    While I can add host directly, and I can open console of VMs.
    Is it right? My VC server is branch KL.next.

    April 21, 2010 at 11:11 pm  |  Reply
    • ideFix1505 says:

      Which version of vgc you are using? With 1.0.1 I get a warning message if I try opening a console of VMs.
      it says: 'Feature not supported for this Host Type'.

      So I think everything is ok.

      When I connect ESX hosts directly, it's working.

      vCenter: 4.0U1 build 208111

      April 22, 2010 at 1:53 am  |  Reply
      • Ravi says:

        VGC 1.0.1 does not support opening the console of VC - VMs. We are currently working on it and plan to make it available in the next release.

        Ravi

        April 22, 2010 at 11:00 am  |  Reply
        • huiming says:

          Hi ideFix1505 I use 1.0.1. Hi Ravi, I hope the coming release with new feature.

          April 23, 2010 at 12:17 am  |  Reply
  82. Abhinav says:

    Great job!

    One feature request: If Ctrl+c and ctrl+v would work for files and folders between VGC and windows explorer instead of me having to click upload and download that would be great!

    Thanks!

    April 1, 2010 at 2:57 pm  |  Reply
  83. Edwin Weijdema says:

    You guys did a great job, keep it going.

    April 1, 2010 at 10:11 am  |  Reply
  84. ideFix1505 says:
    First of all: You did a great job.

    I've VGC in test, too.
    I found the same "mistakes" as EMonjoin did and I appreciate if you would fix them. Additional to them, I like the ideas of EMonjoin - e.g... Show more

    March 29, 2010 at 5:13 am  |  Reply
  85. EMonjoin says:
    As discused in private with Ravi, find there my wish list to improve VGC, feel free to add comment or request :) :

    - If possible improve time to discover VM
    - Store default credential that VGC can... Show more

    March 26, 2010 at 12:04 am  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      Eric, Thanks for the feedback. We will definitely look at you feature requests and prioritize them for future releases.

      March 26, 2010 at 9:54 am  |  Reply
  86. huiming says:

    Hi Rahul,

    I have paste the script here:
    By using ultraedit, I change file which I edit at my desktop to UNIX file type.
    #!/bin/sh
    while [[ 1 ]]; do netperf -H 10.10.20.31 -t TCP_STREAM -l 20 -- -m 1024 -s 1024 -S 1024; done

    Thanks!
    Huiming

    March 22, 2010 at 5:26 pm  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      Pl specify the absolute path of netperf and try running.

      March 22, 2010 at 10:11 pm  |  Reply
      • huiming says:

        It Works

        March 23, 2010 at 12:41 am  |  Reply
  87. Ronny says:

    Wouldn't it be cool if I could also read VM Guest logfiles within the VGC? That's something I miss within vCenter.

    March 22, 2010 at 12:18 am  |  Reply
    • Rahul says:
      Ronny,
      If your talking about VMware tools logs collected inside the guest OS, you should be able to browse & open the logs using the File Explorer.

      In case you're referring to the vmx logs (v... Show more

      March 22, 2010 at 1:11 pm  |  Reply
  88. huiming says:

    I start to using VGC by a test.
    I start netserver in one VM, and depoly an shell script to run netperf in another VM.
    I can see the PID for the sh script, but I can not found the traffic in host console "command esxtop".
    But I can see the script file and run by manually at its location in VM, then I found the traffic.

    what's wrong about this ? Is the script depoly successfully ?

    March 21, 2010 at 8:07 pm  |  Reply
    • Rahul says:
      huiming,
      My understanding is that "Deploy" was able to copy the script file but failed to invoke the netperf process. If the script doesn't have any other dependency it should work just fine. However... Show more
      March 22, 2010 at 1:25 pm  |  Reply
  89. Brian says:

    I think this app is pretty good and can't wait to see what it evolves into.

    March 21, 2010 at 10:01 am  |  Reply

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  91. Tom Foley says:

    Hi, I'm running into an issue when adding ESX servers to the the VGC. After adding more than 7 to 8 Esx Servers the VGC app "hangs" connecting to the next ESX server.
    The cpu on the VGC server goes to 100% utilization.. Is there a recommeded amount memory/cpu for the VGC server? Also are their limits on the number of ESX servers concurrently connected to the VGC?

    March 17, 2010 at 10:13 am  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      VGC has been tested with upto 15 hosts and 200 vms concurrently. We have seen this kind of issue occasionally but has been hard to reproduce. We are working on it & hope to fix in the next release. The high CPU usage that you are seeing is because of this issue only.

      March 17, 2010 at 5:41 pm  |  Reply
  92. Tom Foley says:

    I just installed the VGC and when it try to connect to either an ESX or VC host it gets the following error " XIV Insufficient permissions in host operating system"
    The VGC is installed on a Windows 2003 R2 sp2 w/Net 3.5 Sp1

    March 16, 2010 at 9:32 am  |  Reply
    • Uttam from says:

      This VIX error generally comes when user name or password is incorrect. Please make sure that you are typing valid user name and password of particular ESX host.

      March 16, 2010 at 8:55 pm  |  Reply
  93. Atul Mani Tripathi says:

    Hi,
    I tried deployment on multiple hosts and it worked great but can anyone tell me that how to deploy on selected VMs from different hosts.

    Thanks,
    Atul

    March 15, 2010 at 9:54 am  |  Reply
    • Rahul says:

      The option to perform operations on a selected set of VM across different hosts is exposed through the VM Manager. Goto Virtual Machines Tab, select preferred VM/s, Right Click & choose "Applications->Deploy Host Program".

      March 15, 2010 at 3:05 pm  |  Reply
  94. Eric Monjoin says:
    For those who need to run this tools on Windows 7 64bits :

    1 - Install Corflags so download .NET JDK from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=E6E1C3DF-A74F-4207-8586-711EBE331C... Show more

    March 14, 2010 at 2:53 am  |  Reply
    • Eric Monjoin says:

      oups just forget : Tks Ravi to point me to the right direction :)

      March 14, 2010 at 3:02 am  |  Reply
  95. Ravi says:

    New release (Version 1.0.1) uploaded on 03/12/10 fixes the problem where VGC was not able to retrieve VMs from vCenter folders. If you plan to try VGC with vCenter, please download and use this new build.

    March 12, 2010 at 6:12 pm  |  Reply
    • mansur says:

      I'm still having trouble connecting to vCenter with the current build. It still seems to stick on "retrieving vms". Anyone else still having trouble?

      March 15, 2010 at 12:23 pm  |  Reply
      • Ravi says:

        I can look into it if you can send me the log files -
        a.) Create & set the environment variable VT_DEBUG_LEVEL to 9
        b.) Launch VGC and perform the operations that you did earlier.
        c.) Collect the log files (vtools_*.log) from VGC installation folder and send them over.

        March 15, 2010 at 1:18 pm  |  Reply
      • Scott says:

        I'm seeing the same thing.

        March 18, 2010 at 6:22 am  |  Reply
  96. Brian OAmek says:

    Hi I'm trying to use VGC, but I'm having some issues:
    I select "Add Host" and then input the information for my vCenter server (2.5 U6).
    It authenticates just fine, however, it's been sitting at "retrieving vms" for over an hour now... any suggestions?

    Thanks
    Brian

    March 12, 2010 at 7:59 am  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      We have identified a problem with underlying VIX API whereby VMs placed in folders are not visible. The fix is in progress and we hope to make it available very soon. Stay tuned..

      March 12, 2010 at 8:36 am  |  Reply
      • Brian Oamek says:

        I'm sure that's it as all of my VM's are in folders!

        Thanks!

        March 12, 2010 at 9:33 am  |  Reply
      • Ravi says:

        New release (V 1.0.1) uploaded on 03/12/10 fixes problem where VGC was not able to retrieve VMs from vCenter folders. Pl download and use this new build.

        I also noticed that you are using VC 2.5, the minimum requirement for VGC is vCenter 4.0 or ESX/ESXi 3.5 U2 or later.

        March 12, 2010 at 6:04 pm  |  Reply
  97. Akella says:

    Gret Tool. Good Job guys.

    March 9, 2010 at 11:16 pm  |  Reply

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    • Kirk holliday says:

      Where is part two of the video of the VGC video

      March 12, 2010 at 9:23 am  |  Reply
      • Alex says:

        On YouTube- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lURuCCMHvp8

        March 12, 2010 at 10:25 am  |  Reply
      • Ravi says:

        You can find it on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lURuCCMHvp8

        March 12, 2010 at 10:25 am  |  Reply

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  100. Scott says:

    I installed on Win 7 x64 and when running the app, nothing happens.

    I then tried on an XP client and the tool starts up OK, but when I try to add either a ESX host or my vCenter server, I get an error that reads, "VIX - Could not connect to host." Any ideas?

    March 9, 2010 at 9:12 am  |  Reply
    • Rahul says:

      Scott,
      Can you try using the ip address or the fully qualified domain name, if not already

      March 9, 2010 at 10:18 am  |  Reply
      • Scott says:

        Thank you, using the FQDN worked!

        March 9, 2010 at 10:47 am  |  Reply
      • Scott says:

        Oh, one other problem, when I add my vCenter server, I don't have any VMs listed. They only show up when I add the individual ESX hosts. Is that normal?

        March 9, 2010 at 11:12 am  |  Reply
        • Rahul says:

          That's not normal. Which version of VC & ESX are you using ?
          It could be easier to debug this issue if you can send us the log files.

          Procedure to collect log files:
          a.) Set the environment variable VT_DEBUG_LEVEL to 9
          b.) Launch VGC and perform the operations that you did earlier.
          c.) Collect the log files (vtools_*.log) from VGC installation folder & mail it to us.

          March 9, 2010 at 11:21 am  |  Reply
        • Rahul says:

          I'm able to connect to vCenter product without any issue. I verified against vCenter server 4 build# 162902 & the recently released vCenter server 4.1 beta build# 207423.
          Which builds are you using ?

          March 9, 2010 at 3:54 pm  |  Reply
          • Scott says:

            I'm using vCenter 4 U1 build 208111, and ESX 4 U1 build 208167. I'm not sure if it makes a difference, but I'm also using linked mode with 2 other vCenter servers.

            With regards to setting the environment variable, where is that? I looked in the Windows Environment variables and I don't see an entry for VT_DEBUG_LEVEL, do I need to create that or is it somewhere else?

            March 10, 2010 at 5:54 am  |  Reply
          • Rahul says:

            Thanks for the info Scott. VT_DEBUG_LEVEL env variable doesn't exist in windows by default, it needs to be created.

            March 10, 2010 at 11:00 am  |  Reply
        • MarkH says:

          I have noticed this, too. When connecting via vcenter, the only VMs enumerated are those at the top level of a datacenter. Sub-folders of the datacenter appear to be ignored.

          March 11, 2010 at 1:18 am  |  Reply
        • Ravi says:

          New release (Version 1.0.1) uploaded on 03/12/10 fixes the problem where VGC was not able to retrieve VMs from vCenter folders. Pl download and use this new build.

          March 12, 2010 at 6:06 pm  |  Reply
  101. Arseny says:

    Can't run it on Win7x64, any ideas?

    Thanks,
    Arseny

    March 9, 2010 at 7:35 am  |  Reply
    • Carlos Beppler says:

      It appears that the application works only on 32 bit mode. To do this you must run the CorFlags utility from the Windows SDK (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/242304/where-should-i-download-corflags-exe-from/493863#493863).

      The run the CorFlags /32bit+ "path to VGC.exe". This way the .NET framework understands that this executable is 32 bit only and it start to work.

      March 9, 2010 at 9:14 am  |  Reply
    • Rahul says:

      Arseny,
      The current release is supported only for Windows 32-bit machines

      March 9, 2010 at 9:56 am  |  Reply
  102. Carlos Beppler says:

    Hi, using the CorFlags.exe from Windows SDK and changed the 32BIT flat to 1 (corflags /32bit+) it started.

    Perhaps you could change the platform on your projects to x86 during the compilation, this can resolve this problem.

    March 9, 2010 at 6:24 am  |  Reply
  103. Carlos Beppler says:

    Hi, I installed the VGC on a Windows 2008 x64 machine.

    The installation was ok, but when I run the VGC.exe, nothing happens. Is there any prerequisite to run the tool?

    March 9, 2010 at 6:20 am  |  Reply

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  105. yash says:
    This is a great tool in the hands of administrator as it provides lot of functionality from a single window.

    I have vspehre 4 U1 hosts and my vc is also on 4 .
    1) I have few esx hosts and and each... Show more

    March 9, 2010 at 12:24 am  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:
      Thanks for your feedback. It will be helpful if you can send us the VGC logfiles –
      a.) Set the environment variable VT_DEBUG_LEVEL to 9
      b.) Launch VGC and perform the operations that you did earl... Show more
      March 9, 2010 at 10:48 am  |  Reply
  106. vijay says:

    Looks great!!! Do you guys have plans for a command line version..

    March 8, 2010 at 7:14 pm  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      Not really in the short term.

      March 9, 2010 at 11:02 am  |  Reply

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  108. Marcelo Vieira says:
    The interface is fine and it brings an easy way to manage snapshots and other things too but I got an issue when comparing the VGC display and the VMWare Infrastructure Client.
    VGC was able to list a... Show more
    March 8, 2010 at 12:04 pm  |  Reply
    • rcheruku from says:

      I am wondering if you changed the power state of VMs from VI client after you connected the host through VGC ? In which case, we know of a power state incosistency issue and has been solved in ESX 4.1.

      March 8, 2010 at 12:58 pm  |  Reply
  109. NiTRo says:

    I forgot to mention that i really *LOVE* this promising product (i guess we all do) !

    March 8, 2010 at 11:29 am  |  Reply
  110. NiTRo says:

    Hi,

    i'd like to add some informations over the 4th point of William since i success to add a vcenter witch handle only 2 (licensed) ESXi and 9 VM. Too bad that the "host" column was only the vcenter name instead of the ESX server.

    Unfortunately, i tried to add a bigger vcenter without success.

    March 8, 2010 at 11:27 am  |  Reply
    • Ravi says:

      New release (Version 1.0.1) uploaded on 03/12/10 fixes the problem where VGC was not able to retrieve VMs from vCenter folders. Pl download and use this new build. It should fix the problem that were seeing with larger VC.

      March 12, 2010 at 6:09 pm  |  Reply
  111. Vikas Chhabra says:

    Good Job Guys !!

    March 8, 2010 at 10:32 am  |  Reply
  112. Anders Gregersen says:

    This is a great idea, I'm really looking forward to try it out later today. From the video I've seen, this is one tool that are going to help a lot people in their daily work

    March 7, 2010 at 9:32 pm  |  Reply
  113. William Lam says:
    Hi,

    I gave VGC a try on a Windows 7 desktop, installed fine, though ran into few inconsistencies and issues:

    1) Since VGC is leveraging VMware VIX, VGC will not work with a free licensed version... Show more

    March 7, 2010 at 6:33 pm  |  Reply
    • rcheruku from says:
      Thanks for your feedback. Here are answers to some of your comments/questions -

      1,2. Yes you are right, VGC is completely based on VIX API and does not currently support free ESXi.

      3. We restri... Show more

      March 8, 2010 at 12:49 pm  |  Reply
      • William Lam says:
        This was tested on vCenter 4.0 Build 162902 and ESX 4.0 164009 and ESXi 4.0u1 208156

        VIX error messages with the free version of ESXi are pretty poor, hopefully proper messages will be in a future ... Show more

        March 11, 2010 at 10:10 am  |  Reply
        • Ravi says:

          The issue related to proper error messaging against ESXi is being tracked internally and hope to have it in the next release.

          We have not seen any issue such as host/vc crash etc but would caution using this in a production environment. Also be aware that working with huge number of snapshots concurrently can slow down the server.

          March 11, 2010 at 10:41 am  |  Reply

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