Allowing 3rd parties to write plug-ins for VMware vCenter was one of the best things I think we’ve ever done. One of the companies that’s taken advantage of this with some really cool and very useful tools is EMC. There are now 3 really great plug-ins for EMC users. I’ll link to the man himself (Chad Sakac) for full write-ups. Here’s a recap of the plug-ins below. All of these are free.
1) EMC Storage Viewer – This little gem allows some really great views all the way down into the array that’s underneath you hosts. Here’s a short video.
And here’s where you can grab it. Don’t forget the great whitepaper that goes along with it.
2) EMC Celera SRM Failback Tool – This one is awesome. If you’ve failed your environment over using VMware SRM then this tool will help you configure the storage to fail back to the original site. You can grab it here.
3) EMC Celera VDI Deployment – This will let you create a single VM on a share and then it will automatically clone that share out a bunch of times and automatically register the VMs in vCenter. Really nice way to scale out a bunch of VMs for VDI. It’s also available here.
Enjoy all of the new tools brought to you by our parent company, EMC.
April 9th, 2009 at 9:32 am
[...] The other good thing is now my environment is that much more closer to a production environment – what I write about is gonna be that much real than it was before. I’ll also be able to look at the plug-ins that have been coming out from EMC that fit into eit…. [...]
April 12th, 2009 at 8:59 am
[...] going on today if you look at the integration between the Cisco Nexus line and vSphere or even the EMC plug-ins and vSphere. More work needs to be done in this area and a TON of standards need to be built out [...]
April 19th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Any changes in the works regarding the plug-in architecture for vSphere?
April 19th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
The plug-in architecture for vSphere stays the same. There are some things in progress to make it even easier to write plug-ins. You'll see stuff popping up throughout the 2nd half of 2009.
April 20th, 2009 at 1:25 am
Any changes in the works regarding the plug-in architecture for vSphere?
April 20th, 2009 at 3:16 am
The plug-in architecture for vSphere stays the same. There are some things in progress to make it even easier to write plug-ins. You'll see stuff popping up throughout the 2nd half of 2009.