Tools for Virtual Engineers

Tools for Virtual Engineers

As an admin / consultant / tech support engineer you might need certain tools handy while you manage virtual infrastructure or troubleshoot any issues with vSphere environment

I had several situations where I have to spend at least 2 minutes in looking for download package on goolging , to avoid doing it below is just quick collection of links / tools.

Putty

Most of time you need it when you want to get command line session to Vmware hosts

When you call in Vmware support and they ask do you have putty enabled ?

Or atleast when support engineer or somebody tells hey restart management agents and see if that helps you and to do that you need putty.

PuTTY Download Page : http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Winscp :

You need it when you want to copy files from your local machines to any data stores. Copy across data stores

Winscp :  http://winscp.net/download/winscp439setup.exe

vSphere Client :

Need:

When you need to manage / connect single Vmware host directly

When support engineer says could you please get me direct session to host ?

You need to download from web, just launch browser and point to any Vmware host or vCenter server IP you should be able to download it from there.

vmSearch : http://vmsearch.blogspot.com/

I have also revamped my self a google APIs based custom serach engine where I made it just index  Chosen Vmware related stuff on Vmware and virtualization.

Please feel free check out use and share.

It may help  if you are :

• Beginner
• Tech Support Engineer
• VMware Admin
• Blogger
• Researcher etc.,

Features :

A google like search interface, for those who love google  search engine based interface

Sort search results based on just pages from

• Vmware communities

• Vmware KB

• Just blogs on Vmware
• Third party blogs on Vmware

• Release notes

• Search just documentation

• Search just PDF books