Flish Picks - Top 10 Absolutely Free vSphere Applications and Utilities chose by yours truly.

Number 9 – <a href="http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=381">vSphere Plug-in Wizard by Ricky El-Qasem</a>
This is a nifty little plug-in that will let you embed any front-end web application right inside the vCenter Console. Check out the pick below. The Brent Quick is awesome plug-in took a while to code but I finally got it complete.

<!--more-->

&nbsp;

<a href="http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/BrentQuickisAwesomPlug-in.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7099" src="http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/BrentQuickisAwesomPlug-in-300x118.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="118" /></a>

&nbsp;

&nbsp;

In all seriousness, the real application for this plug-in is the ability to manage your infrastructure from “a single payne of glass”.  Think VMware View management right inside your vSphere client.  Better yet, think about managing any storage array from your vSphere client that has a web interface.  Now that’s integration you usually shell out mucho deniro for! $$$

The wizard plug-in interface is really easy to use.  You point your new plug-in to the URL you want…

<a href="http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/vSpherePluginWizard1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7100" src="http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/vSpherePluginWizard1.jpg" alt="" width="541" height="393" /></a>

&nbsp;

Then register it with your vCenter server.  If you are using vSphere 5 you need to make sure you save the local <a href="http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=676">XML file as well</a>.

<a href="http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/vSpherePluginwizard2.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7101" src="http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/vSpherePluginwizard2.jpg" alt="" width="532" height="355" /></a>

&nbsp;

Stay tuned as we count down the rest of the <strong>Flish Picks</strong>  - Top 10 Absolutely Free vSphere Applications and Utilities.

&nbsp;

&nbsp;