Do you know the problem that the number of VMWare Server installations grows very rappidly? And that it is pretty annoying you can’t really easily switch from one host to the other?
Well I had that problem and decided to make a tool to manage all servers from within one tool. It is sort of a cheap-ass version of Virtual Center (you didn’t pay for VMWare Server why pay for the management tool).
The tool does require you have installed the Management Interface add-on (on Linux this is a separate installation, on windows server you need to have IIS installed).
Feature list:
- easily configure list of vmware servers (use same login/password for all if you want)
- print the server overview
- list diskusage (not in the standard Management Interface)
- open console from overview
- start/suspend/stop images from overview
- for the developer: great sample to see how webbrowsercontrol can be used.
Note that this version is NOT compatible with the upcoming 2.0 release.
Download setup: VMWareControl 0.2.1 setup
Download source: VMWareControl 0.2.1 src
Fixed some minor issues and added two new features:
- -start flag, if set image will be started after copy (has no effect if image was stopped by vmcopy tool).
- NOOP thread. Will send the NOOP command to the FTP server every 5 minutes. This prevents server disconnects on long (e.g. writing directory XML) inactivity.
New version can be downloaded here: VMWareCopy 0.3
VMWareCopy is a tool to backup VMWare images running on a MicrosoftWindows VMWare host. It’s designed to be used with VMWare Server andrequires a FTP server to backup the images to.The reason for FTP is simple: it’s way faster then a windows share.A quick sum of the features:
- Stop the image before copy and resume it afterwards (uses VMWare VIX).
- Write vmware image directory structure to file including file permissions.
- Calculate file hashes/checksums of type MD5 and SHA1.
- Verify the hash of an uploaded file (need support for SITE HASH command, currently available for Gene6 and SimpleFTP).
- Option to skip copy if none of the files has the Archive bit set.
Just run VMWareCopy without arguments to see all the command line options.Download exe, scripts and source: VMWareCopy 0.2