Month: June 2012

ThinApp Factory

From VMware LABs, we will be able to download ThinApp Factory to automate the process of creating ThinApp packages in our environment. ThinApp Factory is nothing more than a Debian virtual appliance that can be deployed on vSphere 4.1 (or higher) which has a Tomcat-based web interface. We will be able to upload installers and then automatically transform them from different MV templates and directly generate the necessary ThinApp packages, which we will then distribute to our users.

Veeam Backup Free Edition for VMware and Hyper-V

Clone, Copy or export a virtual machine (VM) can be time-consuming and resource-intensive, and if you have to turn off the VM, it can also cause an interruption in service. But with VeeamZIP you can easily back up a VM to restore it to any host. If you are using VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, or a combination of both, Veeam Backup Free Edition fits your environment perfectly. Even if you back up regularly, Veeam Backup Free Edition is a must-have tool for managing your VMs.

I/O Analyzer

In this document we will review a utility from VMware Labs that will help us test our storage system, under a virtual appliance called VMware IO Analyzer. This simple appliance will show us performance graphs at the VM and host level, will use Iometer for this purpose & This is top,

ESX System Analyzer

ESX System Analyzer is a virtual appliance that will allow us to obtain detailed reports of our current ESX infrastructure, to see if we could migrate to a vSphere environment 4.1 or 5.0 (with ESXi hosts, Of course). These reports, presented in spreadsheets, show us a full host-level analysis, VMs and datastores,