Mike Laverick
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Administering VMware™ Site Recovery Manager™ 1.0
Test: Veeam Reporter 1.5
Veeam Software, probably best known for their great FastSCP application, has made v1.5 of their Veeam Reporter available for download.
Veeam Reporter is a small application that aims to help VMware VI3 customers to administer and document their setup into Microsoft Visio 2003 and newer.
I gave it a test run, with a trial license, and it came through with flying colors! Within a couple of minutes I had a complete virtual network and storage map of my entire VI3 configuration, including configuration details on each of my VMs.
While VirtualCenter 2.x gives you a map view of your VI3 infrastructure, Veeam Reporter takes this to the next level and gets all your data extracted into easily modifiable Visio files.
Documentation and configuration management is essential to a successful VI3 implementation and Veeam Reporter complements the somewhat lacking Virtual Center map view in a great way.
As usual screenshots are available, and you can also view a sample Visio HTML report from the Veeam Reporter site.
Documenting VMware and Citrix with Microsoft Visio 2003
After successfully implementing VMware Infrastructure 3 at work, the need to document the project arises. Microsoft Visio 2003 is an excellent program to use for such documentation, but doesn't include stencils for VMware based infrastructures.
I did a bit of googling, and found that VMguru.com has released some VMware stencils but it looks like those files are unavailable at the moment. Does anyone have a copy of them laying around, so I could have a look at them?
I have stencils for the other items I need, including the IBM Racks and Server equipment, the Citrix Servers and other network equipment. All I need is the VMware ones that seem unavailable.
Help?
Also, why don't vendors like VMware release official stencils for things like this? To me it would seem like a good idea to do so, after all they will benefit from properly documented implementations as well?