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Plug-in EVA for VMware

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The
astounding success of applications virtualization on the VMware ESX
Server platform has changed the character of IT infrastructures
worldwide. Organizations today are continuing to deploy virtual
machines (VMs) at a record pace. If the advantages of server
virtualization are undisputable there is, however an area that often
requires a particular attention as the environment scales: Storage
management.

The EVA
plug-in for Virtual Infrastructure Client provides administrators a
tool to facilitate the discovery and identification of HP EVA storage
arrays connected to VMware ESX servers.

Administrators
can have a global view across all storage layers (SAN array, VMware ESX
server and Virtual Machines) to keep everything within a single pane of
glass through the VI client interface. As a result, ESX storage
management becomes easier and faster with a lower risk of configuration
mistake.

The
EVA plug-in for VI Client is supported with VMware Virtual
Infrastructure 3. (Update 2, Update 3, and Update 4 releases of VMware
VI Client 2.5, VMware vCenter Server 2.5, VMware ESX 3.5, and VMware
ESXi 3.5). To manage the EVA, the plug-in requires HP EVA Command View
version 7 or above.

RVTools

RVTools is a small .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display
information about your virtual machines. Interacting with VirtualCenter 2.x or
ESX 3.x RVTools is able to list information about cpu, memory, disks, nics,
cd-rom, floppy drives, snapshots, VMware tools, ESX hosts, datastores and health
checks. With RVTools you can disconnect the cd-rom or floppy drives from the
virtual machines and RVTools is able to list the current version of the VMware
Tools installed inside each virtual machine. and update them to the latest
version.

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