Flings tagged: virtual machines

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.

The ESX System Analyzer is a tool designed to help administrators plan a migration from ESX to ESXi.

vCloud Director (vCD for short) relies heavily on the vCenter Servers and host machines it uses. And there may be times when you want to “uninstall” all traces of vCD from your servers and machines. CloudCleaner is a free product that helps restore these systems to a clean state. It selectively (or completely) removes all vCD-created virtual machines, resource pools, network pools, and networks. It can also unprepare hosts that have been prepared by vCD.

With vCMA, you can monitor and manage VMware Infrastructure from your phone with an interface that is optimized for such devices.

XVP Manager provides non-vSphere platforms centralized control.

Ops Panel for ESX runs on the client browser and extends the default ESX server web page with a short list of all available virtual machines.

The VIX Java Toolkit allows Java developers to take advantage of the VMware VIX API. This is a powerful API that allows for performing in-guest operations on VMs running with vSphere, Workstation, Server, and Player.

This module loads into both Explorer and vmware-vmx, and renders a resizable thumbnail of your choice of VM console to the Windows taskbar.

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.

The vapprun command-line tool brings the full vApp model to Workstation and Fusion. It builds vApps that contain multiple VMs or nested vApps and can configure start/stop ordering of child elements of a vApp.