Local Plugin Creator
Recently VMware are adding everything into vCenter to be centrally managed, apart from my PowerCLI prompt I think the vSphere Client is the second most launched application on my computer !
Now wouldn’t it be useful if you could add your other management interfaces into the vCenter Client, even if the vendor hasn’t created a plugin…
One App to rule them all, One App to find them,
One App to bring them all and in the vSphere Client bind them.
Sorry, couldn’t resist it.
Now with my simple script you can fill out a few text fields and instantly add any URL whether its a local file or on a web server, it can be added to your local vSphere Client.
My “PS Local Plugin Creator” script will add the plugin to your local vSphere Client only and does not touch the vCenter server itself, mainly because I wanted to use it as a client only extension.
I think the app is pretty straight forward and needs no further instructions.
Some useful examples of this are below:
Instant access to VMware Documentation
vFoglight
Veeam Backup
VMware View
Thanks to Eric, Barry and Luc for testing the app. Thanks also to the guys at xtravirt for there help.
PowerCLI Quick Reference Guide vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide – Available in Europe
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Alan i _LOVE_ this!! Thank you.
Simon
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Extremely cool – great job Alan !
-Pablo
Al rocks !
Wonderful! Thanks again for a great piece of code!
I love it!
very useful.
Silly additional question … can we add a reference to an object in the URL ??
Sample : http://myapplicationurl/#TheSelectedVmName
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@Ph Koenig
Now that is the golden question, which I am planning to look up, if we could then it would open up a whole new world !
@Virtu-Al
You mean a Galaxy.
A good thing also is the ability to choose multiple tab
Replace list by checkbox and add a small loop in the code
Many thanks’ Santa-Al
C’est excellent Alan,
Always at the edge… Genious…!
Thanks to you..
Vladan
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Great tool Alan.
Is there anyway you could add an “all” option to the location field or a tick box above it, which creates an xml file for every view?
Love it,
Forbes.
@Forbes,
Yeah I am working on a more advanced one (when I get time) will also add an icon etc, easy enough.
Alan,
I am trying to create a plugin for SSH on VSphere client 4.1. Is it possible to create using this plugin creator.
I just gave a shot but it errored out saying “Sorry your Virtual Infrastructure Client Folder could not be found, please let Virtu-Al know: contact@virtu-al”. The reason is VSphere client is installed on D drive and not on C (Systems Drive).
Cool utility.
Wait for version with multiply items.
How do you add the icon? isn’t working in 4.1 for me