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GUI for Storage Vmotion (svmotion) posted: Jan 24, 2008 6:19 AM

agaiswin

17 posts since
Nov 2, 2006

Hi, please find a little Windows GUI for svmotion.
Instructions:
Install the VMWARE remote CLI (www.vmware.com/go/remotecli) on a Windows machine to the standard path (program files...)
Save the file vms.pl into the C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VI Remote CLI\bin directory.
Save the svmotionGUI.exe somewhere on the machine.
Double click it!

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Storage Vmotion GUI.zip (273.9 K)

Re: GUI for Storage Vmotion (svmotion)

1. Feb 7, 2008 5:42 AM

in response to: agaiswin

esloof

274 posts since
Nov 11, 2006

Hi Alexander,

Great work, I posted and article with screen dump on my weblog.

SVMotion graphical user interface

http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/uploads/svmotion.serendipityThumb.jpg

SVMotion graphical user interfaceAlexander Gaiswinker created a storage vmotion graphical user interface and posted it in the VMware community. Instructions: Install the VMware remote CLI (www.vmware.com/go/remotecli) on a Windows machine to the standard path (program files...) Save the file vms.pl into the C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VI Remote CLI\bin directory. Save the svmotionGUI.exe somewhere on the machine. Double click it!

Re: GUI for Storage Vmotion (svmotion)

2. Feb 7, 2008 6:58 AM

in response to: esloof

agaiswin

17 posts since
Nov 2, 2006

Thank you, that's great!
Regards
Alex

Re: GUI for Storage Vmotion (svmotion)

3. Feb 7, 2008 9:59 AM

in response to: agaiswin

heyitspablo

175 posts since
Feb 26, 2007

This is great THANKS for contribution.. !

-Pablo

Re: GUI for Storage Vmotion (svmotion)

4. Feb 8, 2008 12:18 AM

in response to: agaiswin

doomdevice

98 posts since
Dec 4, 2005

good work! Thanks for publishing.

You can find the news also on the German community website www.vmachine.de .

Dennis

Re: GUI for Storage Vmotion (svmotion)

5. Feb 8, 2008 2:08 AM

in response to: agaiswin

rvanhamersveld

3 posts since
Dec 10, 2007

Very nice tool, tanks for the good work.

Greets Rob van Hamersveld

http://www.RobvanHamersveld.nl

Re: GUI for Storage Vmotion (svmotion)

6. Feb 11, 2008 10:45 AM

in response to: agaiswin

eGroupsupport

1 posts since
Mar 21, 2006

Fantastic job! What a very handy utility.

One recommendation would be to add support to append remapped Virtual Center Server TCP/IP ports to the Virtual Center Server DNS name or IP Address. Say for port 81 instead of the default port of 80, or 444 instead of the default 443. In some non-standard configurations this would be most helpful -

Again, great work !

Re: GUI for Storage Vmotion (svmotion)

7. Feb 11, 2008 1:06 PM

in response to: agaiswin

Adam Ladd

22 posts since
Nov 15, 2004

Hello,

Thank you for creating this! Its too bad Vmware has not yet included it in Virtualcenter.

FWIW, I discovered that if you do not follow your instructions exactly, and install the CLI to another directory, you get this error:
AutoIT Error:

Line -1:

Error: Unable to execute the external program.
The directory name is invalid.

Reinstalling it in the default folder fixed it:)

AL

Re: GUI for Storage Vmotion (svmotion)

8. Feb 11, 2008 11:16 PM

in response to: Adam Ladd

agaiswin

17 posts since
Nov 2, 2006

Hi Adam,

Yes, I know this. But did not want to create a path variable. Most people will install it in the default folder anyway.
Regards
Alex

Re: GUI for Storage Vmotion (svmotion)

9. Feb 12, 2008 12:01 AM

in response to: agaiswin

zemotard

609 posts since
Jan 9, 2006

Tested and approuved ... Good job guy !
Regards

Re: GUI for Storage Vmotion (svmotion)

10. Feb 12, 2008 5:58 AM

in response to: zemotard

Bpace

18 posts since
Jul 13, 2006

I am unable to get it to work. Installed and the applet comes up but when I select Get Datastores it just sits on "working" and never comes back. It is currently running on my VC server. Tried it on two servers so far.

Re: GUI for Storage Vmotion (svmotion)

11. Feb 12, 2008 8:46 AM

in response to: agaiswin

Sbeard333

13 posts since
Mar 20, 2007

Lets hope this gets VC integrated soon

but for now this little GUI works a treat thx

Re: GUI for Storage Vmotion (svmotion)

12. Feb 13, 2008 12:57 AM

in response to: Sbeard333

akutz

323 posts since
Nov 9, 2005

If it helps, I wrote a VI 2.5 client plugin that enables SVMotion right from the VI client. You can read more about it on these forums at http://communities.vmware.com/thread/126141 or at its homepage at http://www.lostcreations.com/code/wiki/vmware/viplugins/svmotion.

Hope this helps!