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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.
While high bandwidth, low latency communication has long been important for High Performance Computing, it is now becoming increasingly important in modern, scale-out Enterprise and Cloud environments. This research report from the VMware Office of the CTO reports performance results using Mellanox QDR InfiniBand in Red Hat guests…
The ESX System Analyzer is a tool designed to help administrators plan a migration from ESX to ESXi.
A major obstacle to virtualizing HPC workloads is a concern about the performance loss due to virtualization. We will demonstrate that new features significantly enhance the performance and scalability of virtualized HPC workloads on VMware’s virtualization platform.
PXE Manager for vCenter enables ESXi host state (firmware) management and provisioning.
VMware Guest Console (VGC) is an application to manage the Guest Operating Systems installed on a VM. VGC includes a Unified Task Manager, Guest file system explorer, Snapshot Manager and a VM Manager. VGC is supported with vmware server and desktop products like vSphere, Server 2.0 and Workstation and can connect to multiple hosts simultaneously.
