I just received an email from my colleague Massimiliano Daneri. He wrote a script that automates the installation of the new performance reporting plugin.
Richard Garsthagen already wrote an article including screenshots about the plugin by the way, take a look here: http://www.run-virtual.com/?p=276
Check the following KB articles for more info on the installation of the plugin and after reading you will probably agree that using the script is a lot easier:
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1008330
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1008296
Download the script here! All credits go to Massimiliano Daneri!
Massimiliano is also the creator of the plugin “PXE Manager For vCenter Server”. The plugin enables PXE boot for ESX(i) and has been previewed at VMworld Europe. Unfortunately it’s not available yet for public download.
Now that is a very handy thing indeed.
The script may need modification to allow for later/newer versions of Java.
I had no trouble following the KB and had no issues with a SQL Express setup…