This week we(Frank Denneman and I) played around with vscsiStats, it’s a weird command and hard to get used to when you normally dive into esxtop when there are performance issues. While asking around for more info on the metrics and values someone emailed us nfstop. I assumed it was NDA or at least not suitable for publication yet  but [...]

For some weird reason I never picked up on this tool. Months ago Richard Garsthagen released a beta version of vAudit and recently it was updated to version 1.5. Why would you use vAudit? vAudit has been developed to show you when your VDI Users are logging in and for how long they are using the virtual desktop. I think [...]

Rob de Veij has just uploaded a new version of RVTools, 2.7.1. So far over RVTools has been downloaded over 25000 times. Yes 25000 times, that is a lot isn’t it. There’s a good reason though that it is popular. It is easy to use and gives you all the details you are looking for. Version 2.7.1 contains the following [...]

Rob de Veij just uploaded a new version of RVTools. Check it out, there are a whole bunch of new cool features added. Honestly one of the best free tools around, great work Rob! (Everyone keep in mind that Rob does this during the evening so if you’re using this for commercial purposes would be nice to make a small [...]

Just released, a brand new version of RVTools: Latest Version: 2.5.5 | June 27, 2009 Download | Documentation Release notes: Version 2.5.5 (June 27, 2009) Changed health check properties are not set at start of the program. The program will use the default values until you start and transmit the properties screen. This problem is now fixed. Since version 2.5 the vDisk [...]

Long before people ever heard about the VI Toolkit the ESX Healthcheck ruled the earth. The ESX Healthcheck script used the esxcfg-* commands in the Service Console and dumped all the info into a html file. Today a new version of ESX Healthcheck has been released(0.30) after two years of silence. It has taken them a long time but it’s [...]

I still receive a lot of beta invitation requests while it has been really quiet around Bluebear Kodiak over the last couple of months. (I did a (p)review a while back) I just received an email that a brand new version of the Kodiak beta is about to be released. I already received the Air file but haven’t been able [...]