Yesterday, Tripwire’s vWire team launched our second free utility,OpsCheck, for VMware professionals.  OpsCheck helps you ensure that your hosts and VMs are configured so VMotion will work.

I have spoken with a number of VMare professionals who have spent too much time diagnosing VMotion problems.  They complained that the relevant settings are scattered about, and they need to check settings for all the applicable hosts and VMs.  This is a tedious task that is ripe for automation.  OpsCheck analyses ten of the common hostconfiguration VMotion configuration culprits and ten of the common VMVMotion configuration culprits and reports the results.  OpsCheck is so easy to use that even a caveman product manager can do it.  I ran it against one of our clusters and got the following report (with IP addresses obfuscated).  Trouble shooting guidance is available for each discovered incompatibility.

Please give OpsCheck a try and then post your comments on our community.

OpsCheck, Virtual Product Management, vMotion

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