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Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Virtual Infrastructure 3 Topology Maps

"VI Clients connected to VirtualCenter contain graphical topology maps that display the relationships between objects in the inventory. These maps can be used to visually discern high load areas, to see a virtual machine's VMotion candidate hosts, to plan general datacenter management, and to export."

That quote is from the Vi3 release notes. Besides that, there are just a couple other places on the whole VMware website that talk much about this new feature. I don't think that the new maps feature gets enough attention. At first glance, it is just a novelty... but after using Vi3 for a few months, I've found that it can be really nice to go look at my maps to get my head straight. Now, with this post, I don't want to get into the heavy work side of this feature. I'd like to start a gallery of "cool looking" Vi3 maps. Email your screen capture to jim (at) vmwarez.com and I'll post them here.

Pictures follow...


Jim's Vi3 Map @ WTC


Arne's Lab Environment

Posted By: Jim on Tuesday, October 31, 2006
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2 Comments:

  • All I use is VMWare Server. So I don't have a map. If I did, I would send it.

    By Anonymous, at November 01, 2006 11:31 AM  

  • I wish there were more options for exporting the "map" -- it'd be fantastic to be able to export to something that I could easily manipulate with Visio or other

    By Anonymous, at January 04, 2007 11:53 PM  

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