vmProcessStrobe 2012 Release 1 – Personal Edition

Our first release of vmProcessStrobe is now available! If you you are interested in easily seeing what is running in any of your VMware virtual machines then you will find this tool very useful. The Personal Edition is free, so enjoy!

vmCLIpboard 2011 Release 1.2 – Personal Edition

Our first minor update to vmCLIpboard in 2012 improves resource utilization on both ends of the spectrum. For laptops and desktops with slow processors and little memory, vmCLIpboard uses as few processing cycles and as little memory as possible. For workstations and servers with lots of processing power and plenty of memory, vmCLIpboard will take advantage of those resources to maximize performance.

The latter improvement is in preparation for the Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition of vmCLIpboard, both of which will handle parallel processing of CLI (Command Line Interface) commands using a separate thread for each VMware host. Hosts can be remote, such as VMware ESXi and VMware Server, or local, such as VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion. By managing parallel processes using separate threads, CLI commands can be executed simultaneously across hundreds of servers. The only significant limitation is the processing power of the workstation, or server, where vmCLIpboard is run. For those VMware administrators that want to minimize the elapsed time required to execute CLI commands across many, or all, of their servers, the Professional and Enterprise Editions of vmCLIpboard will prove to be valuable tools.

vmCLIpboard 2011 Release 1.1 – Personal Edition

This minor update adds further refinement to vmCLIpboard, especially in terms of accessibility.

vmCLIpboard 2011 Release 1 – Personal Edition

The Personal Edition of vmCLIpboard 2011 Release 1 has emerged from beta after extensive development and testing with current and recent versions of Windows, Mac OS X, and a few Linux distributions. We will post details, screenshots, and a few tutorial videos over the coming weeks. So check back each week for those updates and enjoy the first, and free, Personal Edition of vmCLIpboard!

vmCLIpboard – Beta 2

Our second beta of vmCLIpboard is ready for downloading and testing. It’s the free Personal Edition!

vmCLIpboard now supports the VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit. VMware’s VDDK (Virtual Disk Development Kit) enables the creation, defragmenting, shrinking, converting, expanding, repairing, etc. of VMware virtual disks.

VMware’s VIX API has been supported by vmCLIpboard since our first beta release. It enables control of VMs (Virtual Machines) and the applications / processes inside of VMs. Starting and stopping applications and services / daemons inside of VMs, copying those files to and from VMs, taking snapshots of VMs, starting, rebooting, and stopping VMs, etc. are all possible thanks to VMware’s VIX API.

vmCLIpboard is a friendly control panel for VMware’s VIX API and VDDK so you don’t have to deal with the complicated syntax of each CLI (Command Line Interface). That’s especially true for remote VMs on any of the VMware server platforms like ESXi. Running the commands you build and keeping track of them is easy with vmCLIpboard. Regardless of your operating system preference, vmCLIpboard is there to help on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Give it a try!

vmCLIpboard – Beta

Our first beta of vmCLIpboard has been posted. It’s the Personal Edition, which is free. Enjoy!

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