IT Virtual Shocks

09 septiembre 2013

The HP Power Advisor utility (free)

HP has created the HP Power Advisor utility that provides accurate and meaningful estimates of the power needs for HP ProLiant and Integrity servers. ´

The HP Power Advisor utility is a tool for calculating power use of the major components within a rack to determine power distribution, power redundancy, and battery backup requirements for computer facilities. Power Advisor allows you to configure each individual server or node. You can then duplicate the server configuration as often as necessary to populate an enclosure, and then duplicate it to populate a rack. The result is that you can build a complete data center quickly by duplicating a rack.

Easy to install, easy to use (drag & drop), friendly interface....a great free tool!!!

Download link: http://sizers.houston.hp.com/sb/installs/HPPowerAdvisor.zip

Web link: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/solutions/power/index.html

07 septiembre 2013

What’s New in VMware vSphere 5.5 Platform & Quick Reference

Thanks to @alanrenouf for this QuickReference for the new vSphere 5.5

Quick Reference:

http://blogs.vmware.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/vSphere-5.5-Quick-Reference-0.4.pdf

What´s New:

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Platform-Whats-New.pdf

...but, sincerely, in my opinion there are no big changes or new features that makes new 5.5 a version to upgrade imperiously most of the knowed VMware farms.

05 septiembre 2013

Visual ESXTOP GUI for VMware

The VMware visualESXTOP is a tool from the VMware Labs to view in windows-mode (hehehe) the results of the cli command ESXTOP and with a friendly option to generate some graphics

1- Download it from: http://labs.vmware.com/flings/visualesxtop and unzip files:

2- Change PATH on the System Properties - Advanced System Settings - Advanced - Environmet Variables - System Variables: "PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin;
(Be carefull with this changes , and backup all the the info you modify for a restore case)

3- Start from CMD or click on the "visualEsxtop.bat" and connect to a ESX host or to a vCenter Server from Menu; File - Connect to Live-server, or start it from powercli: