This week we released OpsCheck on vWire.com for free - a tool to help ensure “VMotionability”.  A number of people have come to get it which is great.  Some of those people are starting to share their findings in the community.

Alan’s is one of my personal favorites because of the way he stated it originally on Twitter.

What I find interesting about this product is the wide range of need for this product.  There are some people who are fairly advanced in their environments and have a pretty good handle on things.  They are finding things they were not aware of before.

Then there are people who have possibly never gotten VMotion to work.  You may be reading this thinking– that can’t be right – but we have talked to people that virtualization is part of their job and they have had issues for the past year getting VMotion to work.  OpsCheck can help these people quickly identify what issues that are preventing VMotion and giving them the troubleshooting guidance to correct those things.  One of the main technologies that sets VMWare apart from the rest currently is VMotiion.  OpsCheck is a tool that should be in every VI Professionals toolbox because you should not be spending time in training or dollars on consulting for what should be a foundational piece of your VMWare deployment.  Use those dollars wisely on things that should be being built upon this foundation.

Our goal at Tripwire in these free tools is to provide value where it matters.  ConfigCheck and OpsCheck are the first two tools we have released because we have heard a need for these things and we have the skills to produce them quickly.

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