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HPE Server Options Compatibility Tool - Main 2

Free Tools / Server Hardware

HPE Server Options Compatibility Tool

What’s HPE Server Options Compatibility Tool? HPE Server Options Compatibility Tool is an online application designed to assist datacenter administrators and designers with qualified options details with reserve compatibility for particular platforms including Rack, Tower, Blade Systems, Synergy, HyperScale and storage devices. Using HPE Server Options Compatibility Tool At the welcome page (Home Page), there are two choices: My Server: Find all compatible components with a server or storage device. My Options: Find all devices that compatible with selected component. My Server This is an option to find compatible components with server and storage devices. The various parts of this page are: Family: Includes most server and storage family such a 3PAR storages and ProLiant servers. Generation: After choosing device family, the generation of the family will show on this table. Server: All generation members will be available on the table and components information will display according to the this selection. Search: This is a search box to finding device faster by entering the device name. After choosing the device, the compatible components information will display. The components includes: Processor Memory Hard Disk Drives Solid State Drives Power Supplies Networking (Compatible Network Interface Cards) Storage Controller Computational and Graphic Accelerators Power Distribution...

VMware Tools Client - Main Window 4

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VMware Tools Client – Interact with a VM without Network Connectivity

VMware Tools Client VMware Tools Client is a beta tools to interact with VMs without network connectivity. May know, there is some vSphere API that developers can write some codes and developing their tools for vSphere environments. VMware Tools Client written by Pierre Lainé is a useful tool to managing virtual machines via vSphere Guest API and VMware Tools. The tool developed by Java, so JRE or JDK should installed on manage machine. As Java is cross-platform run-time, so VMware Tools Client will run on any machine, Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac. VMware Tools Client allows administrators to: Upload and download files between management client machine and virtual machine. Run scripts to reconfigure operating system, troubleshooting and other tasks. Troubleshooting network by ping some addresses from within the virtual machine. VMware Tools Client be able to connect to vCenter and load vCenter inventory, so administrators can select and manage any virtual machine. PowerCLI also provides commands such as Invoke-VMScript to run script or batch via VMware Tools on virtual machines but VMware Tools Client is more featured. It’s beta version yet but available on this link for public download: Download Link Screenshots:

NMONVisualizer – Free ESXTOP Tool 0

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NMONVisualizer – Free ESXTOP Tool

NMONVisualizer NMONVisualizer is a Java GUI tool for analyzing nmon system files from both AIX and Linux. It also parses IOStat files, IBM verbose GC logs, Windows Perfmon & ESXTop CSV data and JSON data. Download the latest version (2016-02-29).   Documentation Click here for an overview presentation.

VMware LABS – Updated Fling 0

Free Tools / Server Virtualization

VMware LABS – Updated Fling

Three flings are updated by VMware engineers and published during this week and past week. HCIBench This fling is a “Hyper-converged Infrastructure Benchmark” tools and if you have vSAN in your environment, this fling is very useful for you. Changelog   Increased Timeout value of client VM disk from 30 seconds to 180 seconds. Disabled client VM password expiration. Disabled client VM OS disk fsck. Set Observer interval to 60 seconds to shrink the size of observer data. Fixed PCPU calculation. Created link directory of /opt/automation/logs, user will be able to review the testing logs in http://HCIBENCH/hcibench_logs/ Increased the RAM of HCIBench from 4GB to 8GB to avoid running out-of-resource issue.