VKernel free tools for your utility belt
Monday, June 6th, 2011, by Anne Jan Elsinga
Most companies I visit have spend a lot of money on hardware and software for their primary process. Operating System software isn’t a problem most of the time, just as the application software.
Management and monitoring software on the other hand is a totally different story. A lot of IT departments have trouble to get their business case positive for management tools. Companies like Veeam and VKernel offer a couple of free tools for VMware you can install on your desktop.
These tools give you an insight in the health of your environment. When you found out that your environment is less than optimal configured, for example the memory consumption of certain servers, you can fix it with VKernel Optimizer (which costs money, but it has a 30 day trial). The tools that are freely available from VKernel are:
I recently bought a new server for my home lab, or at least, it was the start of my home lab. After my ESX host crashed two years ago I didn’t took the time to rebuild it.
For a couple of ThinApp packaging machines I didn’t want that the packagers had access to the vCenter Client, but still let them revert to a previous snapshot.
I was reading another article about cloud computing today. Almost all articles and posts seem to focus on how easy it is to add resources to your environment when you need more power.
After 12 years it was time for something new, something 

