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
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.
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