Comments on: Storage VMotion through the VI client http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/virtualization-pro/storage-vmotion-through-the-vi-client/ A SearchVMware.com blog Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:36:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: JStafford http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/virtualization-pro/storage-vmotion-through-the-vi-client/#comment-46 JStafford Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:46:56 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/virtualization-pro/storage-vmotion-through-the-vi-client/#comment-46 Andrew Kutz's plug-in has made waves in the virtualization world, and lots of blogs have commented positively on it. "Drop what you’re doing and download his SVMotion plug-in," advises Chris Wolf, Burton Group analyst, on his blog. (http://www.chriswolf.com/?p=136) "The SVMotion plug-in is the result of Andrew’s reverse engineering of the VI client libraries, so while it’s a great tool, VMware will not support it. Once Andrew publishes his white paper on building VI plug-ins, the plug-in floodgates will probably slam wide open." For more tools that extend the ease of use and functionality of Storage VMotion, check out Dave Marshall's blog post at http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization/archives/2008/02/vmware_communit.html. Andrew Kutz’s plug-in has made waves in the virtualization world, and lots of blogs have commented positively on it.

“Drop what you’re doing and download his SVMotion plug-in,” advises
Chris Wolf, Burton Group analyst, on his blog.  <a href="http://www.chriswolf.com/?p=136" title="http://www.chriswolf.com/?p=136" target="_blank">http://www.chriswolf.com/?p=136</a>) “The SVMotion plug-in is the result of Andrew’s reverse engineering of the VI client libraries, so while it’s a great tool, VMware will not support it. Once Andrew publishes his white paper on building VI plug-ins, the plug-in floodgates will probably slam wide open.”

For more tools that extend the ease of use and functionality of Storage VMotion, check out Dave Marshall’s blog post at <a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization/archives/2008/02/vmware_communit.html" title="http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualization/archives/2008/02/vmware_communit.html" target="_blank">http://weblog.infoworld.com/virtualizati…</a>.

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