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Any good app on mobile for remotely managing VMware on the go?
We are not a large company, most of us work remotely and frequent travellings are required.
We rent a shared office facility where the network connection speed is excellent and we host most of our servers there.
Current I just VPN into the network to administer servers via SSH, Remote Desktop.
But I would like to have some dedicated app that can manage VMware remotely as VPN and RDP doesn't work quite well on mobile phones.
Any ideas/experience/suggestio
We rent a shared office facility where the network connection speed is excellent and we host most of our servers there.
Current I just VPN into the network to administer servers via SSH, Remote Desktop.
But I would like to have some dedicated app that can manage VMware remotely as VPN and RDP doesn't work quite well on mobile phones.
Any ideas/experience/suggestio
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Oh, very cool, looks interesting, (although maybe a bit tedious if you have a lot of guests), I'll have to try this out. thanks Hanccocka!
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Hi, thanks hanccocka, I'm trying your suggestion, I'll post update this once I feel I'm familar with it enough to make my comments :)
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TigerShasha, the app you suggest looks modern/fancy, I'll give it a shot too, and maybe update how I feel about it, thanks.
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Update 1: As hanccocka suggested, I have tried "VMware vSphere Client for iPad" (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/vmware-vsphere-client-for/id417323354)
It works greatly to check/monitor the status of VMs on iPad, it provides detailed information on hosts and individual VMs. (and it's free)
It supports actions of start, stop and suspend, reboot and vMotion.
However the status need to be manually checked ( by opening the app), what I mean it would be great if some push alerts can be displayed (i.e if CPU usage >95% for 10 mins, I could receive a notification) .
Sadly, this app seems to be as-is (last updated 17 October 2011...), I doubt if there will be any new features updates.But don't get me wrong, this is a good app and its free too, in case of VMware remote management.
It works greatly to check/monitor the status of VMs on iPad, it provides detailed information on hosts and individual VMs. (and it's free)
It supports actions of start, stop and suspend, reboot and vMotion.
However the status need to be manually checked ( by opening the app), what I mean it would be great if some push alerts can be displayed (i.e if CPU usage >95% for 10 mins, I could receive a notification) .
Sadly, this app seems to be as-is (last updated 17 October 2011...), I doubt if there will be any new features updates.But don't get me wrong, this is a good app and its free too, in case of VMware remote management.
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Update 2: As TigerShasha suggested, I have been trying the app "Server Mobile Admin by Infradog" (using android version on a nexus 5)
( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.infradog.serveradmin)
It also supports checking hosts/VMs detailed information/status and actions like start, stop and suspend, reboot and vMotion. In addition it also allow hot adding cpu/memory (when enabled on server side), which can be handy when on the go.
The part I like is that you are able to get/email detailed report of either individual VM/Host or the whole inventory. Also I was able to set up monitor rules on the VMs, should anything goes wrong, and pass the threshold, alert emails¬ifications will be sent to me. However its not free ( but price is not bad at all, and seems to be acceptable for my boss, $2/ Hosts, regardless how many VMs are under the host).
The app also support remote management on servers, Active Directory, haven't tried yet, so I won't comment on these parts.
One other thing I feel its worth a mention, is this thing does not require a port to be opened through firewall, neither does VPN connection required. Overall its a great app not free but with more than fair price I think.
( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.infradog.serveradmin)
It also supports checking hosts/VMs detailed information/status and actions like start, stop and suspend, reboot and vMotion. In addition it also allow hot adding cpu/memory (when enabled on server side), which can be handy when on the go.
The part I like is that you are able to get/email detailed report of either individual VM/Host or the whole inventory. Also I was able to set up monitor rules on the VMs, should anything goes wrong, and pass the threshold, alert emails¬ifications will be sent to me. However its not free ( but price is not bad at all, and seems to be acceptable for my boss, $2/ Hosts, regardless how many VMs are under the host).
The app also support remote management on servers, Active Directory, haven't tried yet, so I won't comment on these parts.
One other thing I feel its worth a mention, is this thing does not require a port to be opened through firewall, neither does VPN connection required. Overall its a great app not free but with more than fair price I think.
If you have an android phone: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.freeroam.vmw
If you have an android Tablet: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.freeroam.vmwpad
If you have a Blackberry Device (like many corporations do) there is an app available that will let you do basic esxi and vcenter administration along with quite a bit of other IT related tasks (SSH, Telnet, RDP, etc). Here's the link: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/24752893/?lang=en&countrycode=CA&iid=us:bb:desktop:blackberry7:footer:Sep2013:appworld
EDIT: it should be worth mentioning also that in order to use the vcenter 5.5 web client from your mobile device it must support adobe flash 11.5.x :-(
Cheers,
Steve