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Day 1 sounded good, can’t wait to attend tomorrow….

Earls Court 2 buzzed with activity from the moment the enthusiastic voice announced that IP’08 and the new VM’08 were open for business. It was standing room only in the seminars and keynotes, particularly for the virtualisation sessions – there was a palpable sense of anticipation and curiosity for what is still, for many organisations, a new concept in computer engineering. Wth Microsoft, Citrix and VMware showing the latest solutions in action.

Among the exhibitors, the mood was surprisingly optimistic given the recent upheavals on Wall Street and Threadneedle Street, summed up by porttracker’s Caroline Barker-Littley: “If companies can get more out of their existing resources, it is good news at a time of belt-tightening. Tools like ours that can discover and re-utilise seemingly lost ports – just as virtualisation can utilise unused and ‘lost’ server capacity – become very attractive when efficiency is a priority.”

From the get-go there was little room to swing a virtual desktop on the stands of IP show regulars such as Avaya, handling wide-ranging enquiries from security to Unified Communications. Avaya keynote speaker Martyn Lambert noted that visitors were anxious to cope with the rapid pace of technological and social change and the need to respond effectively: “They know that if they haven’t got a strategy for customers using Web 2.0 and social networking phenomena, such as Facebook and blogging, their competitors will. It’s an exciting time to be here.”.

Looks like its time to upgrade Workstation and Server if you use them, find more details over on Erics blog:

• VMware Server 2.0 GA

• VMware Workstation 6.5 Released

I have to say Eric has done an amazing job of reporting what is going on at VMWorld 2008, for those of us not lucky enough to attend, I don’t know anyone from the UK who could justify it.

Check out Eric’s blog for Video’s, Pictures and lots of great information…..

• NTPRO.NL

VMworld 2008 | PowerShell presentation from Eric Sloof NTPRO.NL on Vimeo.

Following the poll which has been on the VMware communities for the last couple of weeks an updated toolkit has been released.

This was released due to some of the forum members and users of the VI toolkit finding slowness issues with the get-vm command.

Download the update here for improved performance

I have had some great comments so far on my script, so I thought I would start thinking about the next version, let me know what you want.

So far…….

An Index page with linkable subjects to the following:

Index

Virtual Center

-> Cluster information

-> Resource Pool information

-> Snapshot information

-> Vlan Information

Esx Hosts

-> Host Information

-> Host Configuration

-> -> Hardware

-> -> Processor

-> -> Memory

-> -> Storage

-> -> Networking

-> -> Storage Adapters

-> -> Network adapters

Software

-> Licensed features

-> Time Configuration

-> DNS and Routing

-> Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown

-> Virtual machine Swapfile Location

-> Security Profile

-> System resource Allocation

Virtual Machines

-> Vm information Client folder X (name,os,cpu,mem,disk,tools version,power,discr.)

-> Vm information Client folder Y name,os,cpu,mem,disk,tools version,power,discr.)

-> Vm information Client folder Z (name,os,cpu,mem,disk,tools version,power,discr.)

Datastores

-> Datastore information

Options to run the script:

Report.ps1 virtalcenterserver /All

Report.ps1 virtalcenterserver /only VC and ESX Host configuration

Report.ps1 virtalcenterserver /only vms in map X

Thanks to Greetz for the ideas.