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 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!