Project Supernova is to build a common machine learning inference service framework by enabling machine learning inference accelerators across edge endpoint devices, edge systems and cloud, with or without hardware accelerators.
Changelog
Version 1.2 Update
Support Xilinx Cloud FPGA
App Volumes Packaging Utility
The App Volumes Packaging Utility helps to package applications. With this fling, packagers can add the necessary metadata to MSIX app attach VHDs so they can be used alongside existing AV format packages. The MSIX format VHDs will require App Volumes 4, version 2006 or later and Windows 10, version 2004 or later.
In November only one new fling was released while seven other received update. One that received an update was the Horizon Session Recording fling that I blogged about at the time of release. Also it looks like the VSAN team is letting all its tools loose on the community because yet another tool for VSAN has been released (Storage Simulator Using Cellular Automata). The OS Optimization tool received some nice command-line features to improve your automated Golden images builds.
Storage Simulator Using Cellular Automata is loosely based on the principles of cellular automata (CA) to model the performance characteristics of data path in a vSAN cluster. In general, CA can used to model and study any complex system with number of elements operating in parallel having short range relationships that as whole exhibit emergent behavior. When simulating a storage stack, we are modelling transmission of data blocks across a network of hardware resources communicating with each other through various interconnects. These includes processors, caches, DRAM, SSDs HDDs, PCIe links, ethernet links etc.
When modelling an IO request such as read/write, vSAN software stack applies various functions as the data block moves through this network. These functions include, data replication, parity calculation, checksum, encryption, compression etc. Some of these can lead to IO amplification.
This Fling implements a standalone vSAN simulation utility to aid developers in getting ideal speed-of-light (SOL) performance of a given cluster. This can be used as a starting point to rapidly iterate various ideas/features by making small changes to simulator and quantifying its potential performance impact. It can also be used by customers/partners to identify potential bottlenecks of their deployment under various type of workloads.
Updates
VMware OS Optimization Tool
Always good to see the OSOT getting some new features, bug fixes but laso some nice new command line features and also very important extra knobs to use for Office.
Changelog
November, 2020, b2000
Bug Fixes
Resolved the issue that stopped automatic logon in Server and WVD edition after Sysprep process.
Resolved a reboot prompt problem which displayed in process of generalizing on Win10 1607 LTSB.
Resolved the issue of failing to disable anti-virus feature on Windows 10 2004.
Fixed issue where re-enabling Windows Update would pull down feature updates by default.
Common Options
Common options selections are now remembered between different runs of the OSOT.
For all tabs, user now can apply different Common Options settings multiple times on optimized system.
Under Update tab, introduce a new option to switch on/off update feature of Office 365, 2016, 2019
Under Store Apps tab, disable checkbox for removed built-in apps
Update
New option to defer or directly trigger feature updates
New option to defer or directly trigger quality updates
New option to skip Office Click-to-Run updates
Added commands to stop and disable the App Volumes services when re-enabling Windows Update. These are then set back to automatic when Windows Update is disabled again.
Optimizations
Added the ability to export and import selected optimization items on the Optimize page (Export Selections and Import Selections).
Changes:
Default for “Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service” is now unselected by default to resolve missed language bar issue.
Default for “Connected Devices Platform Service” is now unselected by default.
New:
Turn off account privacy notifications in Office 365 and Office 2019
Project Supernova is to build a common machine learning inference service framework by enabling machine learning inference accelerators across edge endpoint devices, edge systems and cloud, with or without hardware accelerators.
Changelog
Version 1.1 Update
Support Bitfusion
K8S and docker-compose deployment
vRealize Build Tools
vRealize Build Tools provides tools to development and release teams implementing solutions based on vRealize Automation (vRA) and vRealize Orchestrator (vRO). The solution targets Virtual Infrastructure Administrators and Solution Developers working in parallel on multiple vRealize-based projects who want to use standard DevOps practices.
Changelog
Version 2.10.0 Update
[MVN] Improvements in package installer
[vROps] Regex support in YAML definitions for vROps content
[vRLI] Regex support in YAML definitions for vRLI content
[POL] Added Polyglot and ABX support:
NodeJS, Python and PowerShell code support
new archetype: com.vmware.pscoe.polyglot.archetypes:package-polyglot-archetype
two new project types: com.vmware.pscoe.polyglot:polyglot-project; com.vmware.pscoe.serverless:serverless-project
tooling for compiling, bundling and packaging: polyglotpkg
[TS] Added support for description field for workflow inputs and outputs in the Workflow decorator
[vRA-NG] Fixed NPE error during custom resources import
Horizon Session Recording
No need to explain the Horizon Session Recording anymore, just hit the link that I have posted at the beginning of this post.
Changelog
Version 2.2.0
Server Changes:
Added the ability to import server settings easily from another running server.
Added the ability to filter searches based on farm / pool.
Added the ability to lock and unlock sessions from the session view page.
Agent Changes:
1: Misc bugfixes.
2: PowerShell API to interact with the Recording agent, to perform such tasks as:
Start a session recording.
Stop a session recording.
Troubleshoot connectivity issues.
View machine configuration
Add a trusted certificate.
Sample Data Platform on VMware Cloud Foundation with VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Provisioning
With this Fling, you will leverage your VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 deployment and stand a sample data platform on a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid guest cluster in less than 20-minutes comprising of Kafka, Spark, Solr, and ELK.
Changelog
Version Update 1.1
Bug fix for storage class for bitnami kafka
VMware Appliance for Folding@Home
This Fling is a vSphere Appliance that contains the Folding@Home client software. Upon deploying the VMware Appliance for Folding@Home, the user will be prompted to enter information to configure the Folding@Home software. Once the appliance is deployed, the Folding@Home client is running and ready for Working Units. The Fling is also pre-configured to allow remote management of the Folding@Home client. For more information on the Folding@Home Project and how we can be a Force for Good against diseases like the Coronavirus, visit the website www.foldingathome.org.
Over the past several years, you’ve seen us demonstrate our virtualization technology on the Arm platform across several use cases, everything from running mission critical workloads on a windmill, to running on the SmartNIC, to running on AWS Graviton in the cloud. We realized that the resilient platform created for the datacenter can be equally valuable in non-traditional environments. We’ve learned a lot from exploratory discussions with customers and Arm Silicon Partners.
Changelog
November 30, 2020 – v1.2
Note: Upgrade is NOT possible, only fresh installation is supported. If you select “Preserve VMFS” option, you can re-register your existing Virtual Machines.
UI: Disable datastore browsing when no datastores are present
PSCI: Fix missing context_id argument for CPU_ON calls
GICv2: Always enable SGIs, as GIC-500
arm64: Support for big-endian guests
Remove requirements/restrictions on initrd for UEFI-less VMs
Ok maybe it’s more me than ControlUp but the usual audience on this blogs knows that I work for ControlUp and that I love the VMware flings. Recently we received the question from several South-America based customers if we where able to start the Horizon Session Recordings using a Script Based Action. Technically we would have been able to but with the current version we would have to add the user to an ad group that was configured for this and than would be at the mercy of AD replication for the recording to actually start. Que Trentent Tye who reached out to the one and only Andrew Morgan (imho king of the VMwareHorizon related flings) if it would be possible to add an API or PowerShell module to start the recordings. I guess Andrew’s reaction was that he saw the use case for this and within no-time he had a beta version ready for us that had a Powershell module. By the time you read this the new version has been added to the flings site that includes all of these goodies and you can find it here.
<I wanted to insert a picture of Andrew here wearing a crown but that was too much>
VMware Horizon Session Recording allows administrators of a VMware Horizon environment to record their users activity in their Blast Extreme virtual desktop and application sessions. Recordings are uploaded from the agent devices to the central web service, for central storage and ease of viewing.
The Session Recordings are stored as MP4 files for watching via the web console or downloading to play in a local player.
So we have an agent> server application where the videos are stored on the server. During the setup I found that this was very easy but configuring a proper SSL certificate makes things a lot easier as you otherwise need to supply the thumbprint of the self-signed certificate during installation of the agent or in the registry.
The server interface is easy enough with the standard dashboard showing recent recordings while on the Recordings tab you can search for for specific recordings.
The agent is a plain installer that only asks for the server location and the SSL certificate thumbprint. The last one is only needed when the certificate itself is not trusted, if you used a VA signed certificate for the server there’s no need to enter the thumbprint.
Starting a recording
As said in the previous versions of the recorder it was required to configure an ad group and add users to that group to record their sessions. With this version we get a powershell module installed with the agent. It gets even better because if you copy the entire /api folder from the agent installation folder to another system you’re perfectly able to start recordings from there.
Starting a recording using powershell is a matter of importing the proper dll
And now the user can start the recording themselves if they have too many rights by using Start-HSRSessionRecording -SessionID %sessionid%. The session ID can be found as a metric in ControlUp or in the task manager if you add the column under users.
Start-HSRSessionRecording -SessionID 1
My user clearly didn’t have enough rights on the system so I got an error, actually not a bad thing so users can’t easily overload the server this way.
Update: Andrew confirmed this is by design to stop users from recording each other.
Starting the recording remote is a matter of adding the computername to the command
To integrate the Horizon session recording with ControlUp I have created two basic Script Actions. both use three arguments, besides the required SessionId I add the username and machine name in the output so it’s obvious for whom the recording was started.
$sessionId=$args[0]
$username=$args[1]
$computer=$args[2]
try{
$InstallDir = Get-ItemPropertyValue -path "hklm:\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMware Blast\SessionRecordingAgent" -Name installdir
}
catch{
write-host "Error determining the Horizon Session recording installation location. Please make sure the Horizon Sesison recording Agent is Installed."
}
try{
import-module "$($InstallDir)\api\horizon.sessionrecording.powershell.dll"
}
catch{
write-host "Error loading the Horizon Session Recording PowerShell Module. Make sure the latest vesrion of the Horizon Session Recording Agent is installed"
}
try{
Start-HSRSessionRecording -SessionID $sessionId
}
Catch{
write-host "Error starting the recording"
}
write-host "Started session recording for $username on $computer"
$sessionId=$args[0]
$username=$args[1]
$computer=$args[2]
try{
$InstallDir = Get-ItemPropertyValue -path "hklm:\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMware Blast\SessionRecordingAgent" -Name installdir
}
catch{
write-host "Error determining the Horizon Session recording installation location. Please make sure the Horizon Sesison recording Agent is Installed."
}
try{
import-module "$($InstallDir)\api\horizon.sessionrecording.powershell.dll"
}
catch{
write-host "Error loading the Horizon Session Recording PowerShell Module. Make sure the latest vesrion of the Horizon Session Recording Agent is installed"
}
try{
stop-HSRSessionRecording -SessionID $sessionId
}
Catch{
write-host "Error stopping the recording"
}
write-host "Stopped session recording for $username on $computer"
Both these script will get better error handling and notifications in the future but you still see the old error in the background but with the notification that the recording was started.
And stopping the recording
And that shows how easy it is to control the Horizon Session Recording using a Script Based Action. If you combine this with a trigger, cpu usage for example you might be able to capture what is causing that spike, just remember to also create a trigger than stops it after the cpu goes down again.
Changelog
Version 2.2.0
Server Changes:
Added the ability to import server settings easily from another running server.
Added the ability to filter searches based on farm / pool.
Added the ability to lock and unlock sessions from the session view page.
Agent Changes:
1: Misc bugfixes.
2: PowerShell API to interact with the Recording agent, to perform such tasks as:
A couple of days late but I had good excuse: I was away on a holiday. I needed it and enjoyed it and have a week left before I start work again. This month there was one new release and nine flings received an update. Overall it’s a EUC rich overview since no less than seven of those are Horizon / App Volumes related.
This App Volumes Packaging Utility helps to package applications. With this fling, packagers can add the necessary metadata to MSIX app attach VHDs so they can be used alongside existing AV format packages. The MSIX format VHDs will require App Volumes 4, version 2006 or later and Windows 10, version 2004 or later.
Updated Flings
HCIBench
HCIBench is a VMware wrapper around VdBench or Fio to test the capabilities of your HCI environement. I would recommend always to test with your own settings so you can do an honest comparison.
Changelog
Version 2.4.0
Fixed tvm deployment bug when specifying host
enabled easy run to support stretched cluster
fixed timezone issue on pdf report, and added more vSAN info into PDF report
The App Volumes Migration Utility helps the users in moving from App Volumes 2.18 to App VOlumes 4 so app stacks don’t need to be reprovisioned.
Changelog
Version 1.0.3 Update
Field “uniqueId” is added in the metadata JSON for migrated appstacks.
Version 1.0.2 Update
Fix for fling bug 983.
The customer bug on the fling, exposed an un handled scenario.
Prior to migration if the appstacks registry database contained registry keys with embedded NUL
(\0) chars in their name, Migration fails.
This scenario has now been addressed with this update.
Horizon Session Recording
The Horizon Session Recording is a usefull tool when an Horizon Admin wants to be able to record sessions and see what the users are doing exactly when a problems happens.
Changelog
Version 2.1 Update
Many bugfixes in agent side
Power vRA Cloud
PowervRA Cloud is a PowerShell module that abstracts the VMware vRealize Automation Cloud APIs to a set of easily used PowerShell functions. This tool provides a comprehensive command line environment for managing your VMware vRealize Automation Cloud environment.
Changelog
Version 1.3
4 x New Cmdlets for VMC
5 x New Cmdlets for AWS
Powershell 7 on Windows Support
Bugfixes
Horizon Reach
If you don’t have any other 3rd partly tooling (like ControlUp, sorry gotta plug my employer 😛 ) to manage your Horizon environment than Reach is a very useful tool. This is not an update but a re-release, read below why.
Warning: Horizon Versions 7.10 through 7.12 have a known issue which can cause Horizon Reach to trigger a low memory issue on the Horizon Connection Server.
For Horizon 7.10, ensure to deploy Horizon 7.10.2. For 7.11 and 7.12, please refer to the following document here.
Desktop Watermark
The Desktop Watermark fling gives you the option to visible and unvisible mark the desktop that you are using.
Changelog
v1.2 – Build 20200713-signed Version Update
Added support for multiple displays.
App Volumes Entitlement Sync
The App Volumes Entitlement Sync flings helps an APp VOlumes admin to sync various App Volumes Environments like test/dev/prod or different pod’s for example.
Changelog
Version 4.1 Update:
Get App Volumes version from an API value which always returns the build number.
App Volumes 2006 and later has a problem with version 4.0 of the Fling in returning a string value.
vSphere Mobile Client
Manage vSphere from your phone or tablet with the vSphere Mobile Client fling, do I need to say more?
Changelog
Version 1.13.2 Update:
New:
Datastore details page (link from VM details page)
Improvements:
Fixed issues related to connecting to standalone ESXi VM console
New combined template for all versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 and 2019. Optimizations can have optional parameters to filter the version that a setting is applied to.
Optimizations
Turn off NCSI is no longer selected by default as this was shown to cause issues with some applications thinking they did not have internet connectivity.
New Optimizations added and some removed, For details see: https://techzone.vmware.com/resource/vmware-operating-system-optimization-tool-guide#Template_Updates
Bug Fixes
Fixed issues with re-enabling Windows Update functionality on Server 2016 and 2019.
Fixed issue that was preventing Windows Antimalware from being disabled properly.
Common Options
Changed interface and language on the Common Options page for Windows Update to remove confusion. This option can only be used to disable Windows Update as part of an optimization task. To re-enable Windows Update functionality, use the Update button on the main menu ribbon.
Today a new version has been released of the VMware Horizon Helpdesk fling by Andrew Morgan. One big change is that the Helpdesk license isn’t required anymore so at least a part of the functionality is available to owners of advanced or standard Horizon licenses.
the entire changelog:
Version 1.4.0.1
No longer requires a helpdesk license! Yay!
Added the ability to interact with vCenter machines
Added the ability to open vCenter VM consoles
Added the ability to perform bulk machine actions
Added the ability to perform refresh / recompose tasks directly from helpdesk.
Fixed performance issues with multiple windows open (see single instance).
Fixed a crash when logon durations could not be accessed.
Added polling to allow logon durations to be received if notavailable when the session page is requested.
Fixed a crash in the ending of processes.
Fixed a metric ton of bugs with delegated administration.
Fixed a memory leak in the tray icon menu, of all places.
Removed the logon page graphic as it was to much of a pain to change it’s colour when changing themes
Fixed some layout issues when changing themes.
Removed empty sites from the viewon the change pod tray menu.
Added preliminary support for Horizon 7.9.
Let’s look into some of the new options (will do the options without the helpdesk license last)
Added the ability to interact with vCenter machines
From the pool view you’ll see an extra button for vCenter actions
And that will give these options
These all speak for themselves in functionality.
Added the ability to open vCenter VM consoles
Open VM console will give an popup that asks for vCenter credentials.
Hit logon and a vrmc client should start if it’s installed
Added the ability to perform bulk machine actions
The vCenter actions above can be done against multiple vm’s but also the various actions from View itself
Added the ability to perform refresh / recompose tasks directly from helpdesk.
No longer requires a helpdesk license! Yay!
when you use the std license the biggest difference is that you can’t view any specifics inside sessions since that’s all limited to the helpdesk license.
Every once in a while there’s a fling that looks too good to only be mentioned in my monthly updates. The vSphere mobile Client is one of those in my opinion. For years and years I have seen questions about apps to manage vSphere from your mobile device and there indeed have been a couple in the past. With the amount of available API’s some VMware engineers now have decided on creating a fling for it. Currently it’s only available for Android devices but it is an awesome step in the right direction.
vSphere Mobile Client enables administrators to monitor and manage vSphere infrastructure directly from any mobile device. Whether you want to check on the current or historical resource consumption; you want to get notifications on long running tasks; or you want to check the currently running tasks – the vSphere Mobile Client is there to help.
Features
VM overview: Review the status of your VMs including state (powered on/off), resource usage and configuration information
VM management: Change the power state of a VM or restart it. Locating the virtual machine to operate on can be done through search.
Task monitoring: Subscribe to any running task and receive a notification on your mobile device upon task completion, even when your device is in-active or you have another application running on the foreground.
Performance charts: Monitor the resource usage of a VM in real time or a day, week, month or year back. Counters include CPU, Memory, Storage and Network.
NOTE: vSphere Mobile Client is currently available for Android devices and vCenter 6.0+ deployments. Check the “Requirements” tab for more details. Access to vSphere infrastructure may require a secure access method such as VPN on a mobile device.
This is a technical preview release and as such it only has a limited subset of the intended functionality. The team would be releasing updates with new features regularly, but our main task is to gather feedback so please do not hesitate to reach out to us.
There are some screenshots on the fling site and the one below from my phone but once I am able to connect to my lab I will add some more.
Removed machine listings from session view (overkill)
Improved Environment view to include metrics on all connected infrastructure:
vSphere
Hosts
Datastores
Remote Pods
Events
Problem Machines
Added repeated queries for logon breakdown if missed on first instance
Added event query support for logon breakdown
Added events view for Farm and Desktop pools
Added inbuilt find / search to users / machines in pool views
Added support for multiselect in pool / farm views
Added graph / chart views of machines / sessions and problem machines on the environment overview
Added a pod switcher to the environment overview
Added a global search to the environment overview
Added support for Pod Jumping.
the ability to jump to a pod on demand
the ability to jump to a pod a session belongs to
Added support for an architecture view of Desktop Pools
Added support for an architecture view of Farms
Enhanced view of servers load evaluator value
Added bulk user tasks via pool or farm views:
Bulk messaging
Bulk log off
Bulk disconnect
Bulk reset
Bulk restart
Added support for a local pod view (AKA environment view):
Connection servers
Farms
Desktop pools
Added documentation (finally)
Added MSI installation support
Added a start time column to user sessions (this will persist as a preference)
Let’s take a look some of the new goodies, the first change is that you now get a proper connection alert:
The POD switcher
The show environment button will show you the environment as seen from the pod you are currently connected to. A lot of tabs with health information about those components and some counts on sessions, machines and problem machines.
The address behind Connected To will send you to the Horizon Admin Console, this might sound small but I like it!
When you open a pool this is what you see
All of the events for that pool and yes you can sort & filter them!
Some details for a users session
If there are multiple sessions (unlike in my lab) you can select them and mass send messages or do other actions against them.
The view for an RDS farm
So yes the best Horizon helpdesk tool ever just got improved by a 100%!
Ok, normally I do a post each month with the latest and greatest flings and I will still do that tomorrow. Today though Andrew Morgan from VMware OCTO has released a fantastic new fling: Horizon Helpdesk Utility! But we already have the Helpdesk tool you might say? Well this fling is everything the helpdesk tool should have been. While it isn’t bad this one is way better.
First of all this fling is an app that you need to install on your own computer or a management server. It will keep its settings in C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\HorizonHelpDeskAgent\ .net Framework 4.5.2 is required but most will already have that or a higher version installed. Installation itself is a quick next next finish with the warning that the signer of the application is not trusted, I have been told that this might be fixed in the next release. After installation you will find a new application in your start menu. I have already attached it to my start menu as well.
After starting you will get a box where you will need to fill in the server address including the http part and your credentials (the same role is required as the regular helpdesk tool)
If you don’t have a trusted certificate you will get a box to accept that certificate.
After that I was looking for something to popup but I just had a small icon added down right
Right click on this and you’ll see a small search box. This search is more easily reachable by using ctrl+F12
Put in a name and you’ll get a box that contains all matching names
Double click the correct account or session and the real deal will open up for you.
The diagrams hardly need any explanation, please also notice the user experience rating on the top right. The image in my lab doesn’t have anything installed so I can’t really show a lot but here are the views from the other tabs as well:
All entitlements for the user
This is pulled directly from the event database
Some more fancy diagrams about the blast protocol
The last tab shows all processes on the desktop, this can easily be filtered on any of the info shown
A possible improvement here would be some kind of checkbox to show only the users own processes because otherwise things can get confusing at RDS hosts. I’ve already talked with Andrew about that (actually the checkbox was his idea).
On the top left there’s a couple of pull down menus to allow for some actions on the session or the machine itself.
The remote control functionality starts windows’ own mrsa tool.
Despite running it against my own very small lab the tool seems to perform very well. I consider it for the few moments that I have used it as a very decent replacement for the original helpdesk tool.
It’s less than two months before VMworld US is on us, are you looking forward to it? I know I am! In June there have been six updates to VMware flings:
This was a new fling last month and now the ESXi Compatibility checker has been expanded with several functions like offline and multiple vCenter support. With this tool it is possible to check if your ESXi hosts will work with the latest and greatest that VMware has to offer.
Changelog
Build 8951845
Offline case support
The current script requires to be executed with access to both public internet and target hosts. The new version can separately validate compatibility from collecting hardware information. Hence, user can collect hardware information on a system without public internet access and save the information in a json file. And he can validate compatibility of collected hardware from a saved json file on a system with public internet access.
Example
The ‘-g’ option will collect hardware information and generate a json file. (no need to have internet access)
The ‘-f’ option will validate compatibility from a json file (no need to access target hosts)
$compchecker.py -f <json-data-filename>
Multiple virtual centers support
The host parameter with the ‘-s’ option now accepts comma separated multiple hostnames. This feature will be useful to create a single compatibility report for multiple VCs
Increased simultaneous migration limit to 100 from 10
Added check to ignore unknown fields for inventory info
Fixed source/target site names in task status view
Updated status API to include version number
DRS Lens
As VMware vSphere DRS has become more widely adopted now, more and more users are interested in knowing how it works. They need more insights into DRS activity and actions. They want to know the value that DRS provides to their clusters. DRS Lens is an attempt to provide a UI-based solution to help understand DRS better. (yes this is a lame copy/paste, it’s too hot to come up with original stuf)
Changelog
Version 1.3
Upgraded apache tomcat to version 8.5.31 for security compliance.
All the features of Auto Deploy (when compared with the vSphere Web Client)
Software Depots
Deploy Rules
Deployed Hosts
Discovered Hosts
Configure (Auto-Deploy configuration)
Script Bundles support for Auto-Deploy (Available only in the vSphere Client)
Script Bundles view where all bundles are listed
Ability to Upload a script bundle
Ability to Add/Edit deploy rules with script bundles
New virtual switches view on a host which includes topology diagrams for standard and host proxy switches
Improvements
vApp properties create, edit, delete and set value functionality
VM vApp option properties create, edit, delete and set value functionality
vCenter Extensions
VM SDRS create, edit and delete
VMware OS Optimization Tool
Being an EUC guy this is simply my favorite fling, nothing new this time, it’s just a bug fix release.
Changelog
June 14, 2018
Issue fix: Crash in non-English locale (e.g. French)
Horizon Migration Tool
The Horizon Migration Tool helps you to migrate from Xendesktop/App to Horizon View. This is mainly a maintenance version for a tool they missed in the last release.
Changelog
Version 3.0.1
Fixed issue: add missed XenAppDumper.exe for XenApp 5.0
The App Volumes Backup Utility is one of the few ways to backup those writable volumes. Friends don’t let friends use them but if you do please make sure you have backups.
Version 2.1
Added missing pre and post backup prep files
Cross vCenter Workload Migration Utility
This is the graphical tool to move vm’s between vCenter servers. If you prefer a command line way please use the tool below.
Version 1.1.0, March 30, 2018
Added a detailed task info view for migration tasks
Fixed an issue with site name containing “DOT” characters
Display VM resource (CPU, Mem, Disk) info
Add a button to clear selected inventory data
Cross vCenter VM Mobility – CLI
This is the CLI way to move those vm’s between linked or not linked vCenter servers. If you prefer something visual then please use the tool above.
Version 1.6
Added support for bulk-relocate / bulk-clone which helps the user to migrate / clone multiple VMs specifying various destination locations in a single command.
Added support to choose destination resource pool
VMware OS Optimization Tool
Some use scripts, some use other tools but for me the OSOT is the preferred method to optimize my golden images.
March 30, 2018
[Template] Issue fix – DELETEVALUE actions do not do anything
[Tool] Issue fix – Switching to another tab loses all unsaved changes
[Tool] Enhancement – Simplify user interaction in Template Editor. Now editing template no longer requires repeated Update button click. Mac style editing is applied (Automatically save changes along with edit)
HCIBench
What is there to say about the HCIBench benchmarking tool for Hyperconverged Infrasturctures
Version 1.6.6.
Spectre & Meldown patch on both HCIBench VM and Client VM
Added client VM prefix field, allow running multiple HCIBench instances against single cluster
Attach testing log along with testing results
Enabled live vSAN Observer when running testing, using https://HCIBench_IP:8010
Updated the drop read/write cache script
Added more message info during the testing
Bug fixes
vSphere HTML5 Web Client
A couple of updates for the vSphere html5 client, more and more features are being added so it will end on par with the flash client.
Fling 3.36 – Build 8111348
New Features
Customize additional hardware devices/options during VM creation or cloning:
Host USB device
SCSI controller
USB controller
SATA controller
CPU > CPUID Mask > Advanced
VM Options > VMRC options
VM Options > VMware Tools > Power Operations
VM Options > Power Management > Wake up on LAN
VM Options > Advanced Configuration Parameters
VM Options > Fibre Channel NPIV
Warn when about to perform an operation on VM template(s) managed by a solution
Bug Fixes
SSO authentication error during accessing the vSphere Client from the fling appliance is resolved
Fling 3.35 – Build 7914771
Improvements
UI improvements on Quick search including
Search dropdown design is changed to show the top 10 results
View all results page design is modified to show grouping in the object navigator and the results in the right pane
UI improvements in grouping of hard disks in Edit Settings and VM Summary. If there are more than 4 harddisks for a VM, you will see them grouped in Edit settings. This enhancements will improve the performance of the VM Edit Settings.
ESXi Embedded Host Client
This should eb installed on your ESXi hosts by default by now but ESXi embedded host client is getting updates trough this channel.
Version 1.29.0 build 8122819 (Fling 20) – March 28, 2018
General
Reset selection on vm deletion
Fix issue with datastore wizard on very large datastores
Update available rdm disk list in vm wizard
Correct miscalculation of datastore total in wizard
Better support for NSX networks
Fix clicking issues on full-screen and new tab console screen
Prevent password maangers from autofilling optional field on login page.
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