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Vizioncore has released new versions of a couple of their products... EsxRanger Pro 3.0 and EsxCharter 2.0. Both have all kinds of new features and functionality including support for VMware Infrastructure 3. I have not had a chance to play with EsxRanger yet, but have messed with EsxCharter.

If you have ESX in your network, you NEED to try this software out. It gives you a historical view of your Vi's performance and it also has the ability to alert you of any problems.

Installation is super easy. You just install it on a windows box and tell it the name and creds for your ESX boxes. There's nothing to install on your ESX hosts. It takes all of about five minutes to start using it.

EsxRanger Pro 3.0 has the following functionality:

• Support for VMware Infrastructure 3
• VirtualCenter, VMotion, VCB integration
• Reporting for backup trends
• No manual scripting needed
• Send backups to Linux or Windows hosts
• Policy-based intelligent rules engine, including VCB and VirtualCenter
• GUI interface, including drive selection option
• Full restore and file-level restore options
• Differential backups
• Archive retention policy
• Significant compression options
• No client needed on ESX Server

EsxCharter 2.0 has the following functionality:

• "Top-down" views of entire virtual infrastructure
• Support for VMware Infrastructure 3
• Easily understand key performance metrics
• Find bottlenecks in your ESX Server farm
• Get "under the hood" type information presented in a Windows interface
• Consolidated real-time views of your ESX Servers
• Make on-the-fly performance adjustments
• Reports for performance trending
• No manual Linux or PERL commands needed.
• Threshold alerts and automated emails of reports
• Billback properties for global, host and VM

esxMigrator by Vizioncore

esxMigrator provides a powerful tool that can support the upgrade process from ESX Server to VI3, by enabling smooth and seamless migrations to the new platform with minimal downtime even for complex environments.

esxMigrator Brochure:

http://www.vizioncore.com/esxMigrator.html

• Allows source virtual machines to be used continuously during migration process
• Keeps both source and destination virtual machines intact, supporting roll-back contingency plans
• Eliminates manual scripting
• Can be used by any level IT administrator
• Migrates multiple virtual machines
• Windows® GUI-driven migration tool
• Reduces downtime to simple reboot
• Offers scheduling option to control timing of reboots

esxMigrator Review

esxMigrator Pricing:

esxMig-25 - 25 vm migrations: $1,000
esxMig-100 - 100 vm migrations: $2,500
esxMig-EL - Unlimited vm migrations: $7,500