Richard Garsthagen managed to find some spare time and update his ESX Host CPU info tool:
Interested in knowing if all your physical ESX servers are the same? VMware CPU Host Info will help you find out. The application gathers the important system information from your hosts and puts this in one single overview.
The program will tell you if your servers are VT capable and more important if this feature is turned on. I have found that on most my servers, this feature is disabled in the BIOS.
At some point in time VMware will provide a new cool feature called FT, this ‘Fault Tolerant’ feature will only work with the latest processors. This program will also let you know if your processors are new enough 🙂 (you have to have harpertown or above).
At the Login screen just provide your username, password and the IP/DNS of your Virtual Center. After the login, the program will collect from all hosts the Vendor, Model, CPU Types and the CPU feature bits.
You can connect the tool to multiple VC’s at the same time and it will report useful info like CPU Type and Features which might be handy if you’ve got a dozen of hosts and you want to create clusters based on VMotion compatibility. And as you can see in the screenshot below it also detects if you’re hosts are Fault Tolerance compatible. Visit his blog and pick it up.
Let’s hope Richard can keep finding time to do cool stuff like this or to blog on a more regular base again!
andrewstaflin says
Does it really worth it that much to purchase Virtual Center? Would it be worth it to purchase Virtual center
If I don’t upgrade my VI3 from standard to Enterprise. The post above cheered me up a lot into buying it, but it did not
mention what it will give & not give in standard edition.
http://www.virtualizationteam.com/virtualization-vmware/vmware-virtual-server-virtualization-vmware/virtualcenter-for-vm-ware-server-real-value.html