Книга: Mastering VMware® Infrastructure3

Lost Creations viplugins

Lost Creations viplugins

On the smaller scale, but high up on the functionality scale are the products created by a company named Lost Creations. From their web site at www.lostcreations.com (or www.viplugins.com) you will find some very useful plugins for VirtualCenter. Among their available plugins you will find:

? SVMotion 0.4.4 — This VI plugin, perhaps the most useful of all, allows VMware administrators to invoke storage VMotion (SVMotion) events from within VirtualCenter. The first release of Storage VMotion, available at the time of writing, required a command line execution using the svmotion.pl utility.

? Add Port Groups 0.1.0 — This plugin facilitates managing virtual networks across multiple ESX Server hosts. It allows for the creation of multiple port groups (the vSwitch must exist) of any type on a number of ESX servers and virtual switches at once, thus eliminating the need to recreate on a host-by-host basis.

? RDP 1.0.1 — This tool builds Remote Desktop access directly into the Virtual Infrastructure client connection. The right-click context menu of a virtual machine includes an option to initiate an RDP session.

? Console 0.1.5 — This plugin adds a console tab to the details pane of an ESX Server host. Similar to the console tab natively available for virtual machine this plugin adds direct console access to an ESX Server from within the Virtual Infrastructure client.

? Invoke 0.1.7 — This plugin provides a high level of customization by allowing an administrator to invoke third-party applications from within the Virtual Infrastructure client connection. It can even pass the existing session cookie to the third-party application. This opens up the VI Client to a new world of integration with perl, Java, or .NET applications.

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