vCMA for Mobile Access

tstrip007

Does anyone use the vCMA and vSphere client app for ipad? I want to be able to do the very basics like reboot vms and see performance, thats it. It claims it can do this. The reviews are not so good.

Essendon

I'd like to know too.

On a lighter note, do you want to carry your work around, cant get enough of VMware ay?!

tstrip007

Last week I remoted in from my iphone to my work pc. Logged into vcenter and needed to reboot a vm. Was pinching and zooming like a crazy man to make sure I had the correct vm tapped. I always get the call when I am not near a pc...

Essendon

I know the feeling too! I need to restart a blade the other day and going to do it from my iPhone too, made it doubly, triply sure to ensure I had the right one chosen.

tstrip007

HA! Well I deployed the vCMA OVF and started playing around with the app. It does what I need. I tested a vm restart and made sure the performance metrics were matching up. I like it so far. The app crashed every time I did a guest shutdown but I can get past that. I do recommend disabling the "Save login info" in case someone gets ahold of your ipad and wants to know what "Hard Power Off SQL Server" means.

Essendon

Good idea about not saving login info! Are you able to view the VM's console and poke inside the guest's OS?

tstrip007

No. VM Actions are Suspend, Stop, Restart, and vMotion. Going to test vMotion tomm. Host actions are Main. mode and reboot. That's pretty much it. May not be worth the 512 ram, 1 vcpu, and 7gb hard disk space.

Essendon

Fairly basic then. I might just persist with VPN'ing in for now!

kj0

The Vmware Watchlist is pretty awesome, I only used it the other to test it out and connected to our new gear (only running the VCSA Appliance, no other VMs) but it was pretty good.

jibbajabba

The iPAD app is alright, but to be honest, you get a lot more functionality by simply using the web interface of the mobile access. Last time I used it was around 4.x times so I am not sure how it looks now, but back in the days it was "brilliant" - worked even on my small blackberry and I never left the bed for 3am server resets ...

For Android check out this one :

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.projecteureka.android.aVMControl

No vCMA needed and even connects to the console via VNC ..

SimonD.

Have a look at a review I did a couple of years ago, sure its a tad dated now but actually still valid.

vSphere Remote Management Applications for the iPad and iPhone « Everything Virtual