Archive for May, 2008

Mass VMware Tools Updater (2008-5-15)

Every now and again a super sweet little application comes along that makes life so much easier. RVTools, written by Rob de Veij, is a great little tool that can mass upgrade VMware tools running on an ESX hosts controlled by a given VirtualCenter server.
Upgrading VMware Tools every time a significant update to ESX [...]

Thinstall, XenApp… Ah, of course, ThinApp! (2008-5-15)

I stumbled across this interesting article over at the c1tr1xguru blog that talks about VMware’s fairly recent Thinstall acquisition undergoing a name change.
Thinstall has been in beta since VMware purchased Thinstall back in January this year under the guise of the Project North Star beta project.

Amending ESX Time (2008-5-1)

For those of you that don’t or can’t use NTP on your ESX servers and occasionally have problems with time, here’s how to alter the time through the command line.