vmktree http://vmktree.org vmktree for VMware ESX, GSX, VMware Server and more Wed, 22 Dec 2010 07:59:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en vmktree 0.4.1 with support for ESX(i) 4.1 is here http://vmktree.org/?p=14 http://vmktree.org/?p=14#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 02:36:27 +0000 admin http://vmktree.org/?p=14 Key features:

- Support for 4.1 ESX and ESXi only
- Providing stats for core four of the host (+more). Currently lacking networking stats per VM.
- Supporting many new values provided by ESX 4.1 such as: memory compression, power usage, disk latency, queues, etc….
- Since many new values have been added, the database is not backward compatible with older versions (only parts)

Installation:

1. Deploy VMware vMA from URL:  http://download3.vmware.com/software/vma/vMA-4.1.0.0-268837.ovf
2. Start the vMA VM, configure ip, pw, etc. Login as vm-admin
3. Download vmktree: wget vmktree.org/vmktree-0.4.1.tar.bz2
4. tar xjvf vmktree-0.4.1.tar.bz2
5. cd vmktree-0.4.1
6. sudo ./install.pl
7. vmktree-addesx
8. Open your web browser and point to http://ip-or-name-of-vma/vmktree

SSH needs to be enabled so make sure your ESXi hosts have “Remote Tech support (SSH)” enabled.

ESXi hosts loose their ssh keys after reboot so check out this workaround.

Any Debian or RHEL based distro should in theory work.

Have fun!

Update: A few bugs has been reported and fixed since 0.4.0 was released so this posting has been updated to 0.4.1.

]]> http://vmktree.org/?feed=rss2&p=14 vmktree 0.3.0 out of beta http://vmktree.org/?p=9 http://vmktree.org/?p=9#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:09:29 +0000 admin http://vmktree.org/?p=9 After 15 beta releases, and a quite long time of being in that phase, vmktree is now out of beta for ESX 3.x.

If the stats collected from ESX 3.5 hadn’t been so different from 3.0.x, it would  have been released ~ a year ago.

vmktree has been %99 rewritten since the version for ESX 2.x. This new version is much more scalable and it’s quite easy to add new devices without having to recode anything.

Some of the previous functions (live esxtop stats, export to excel, text report) are not implemented at this point, while the top stats have moved down to the low level graphs.

I’ve also added a quick install guide for CentOS and will be adding one shortly for Ubuntu Jeos too.

Lars

]]> http://vmktree.org/?feed=rss2&p=9 Beta available for download http://vmktree.org/?p=7 http://vmktree.org/?p=7#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:34:58 +0000 admin http://vmktree.org/?p=7 The latest beta of vmktree for ESX3.x (++) is now available for download from the main download page. This is the same version that I sendt out per email on 18Mar2008.

Lars

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