vCMA for Mobile Access

tstrip007tstrip007 Member Posts: 308 ■■■■□□□□□□
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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.
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  • EssendonEssendon Member Posts: 4,546 ■■■■■■■■■■
    I'd like to know too.

    On a lighter note, do you want to carry your work around, cant get enough of VMware ay?!
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  • tstrip007tstrip007 Member Posts: 308 ■■■■□□□□□□
    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...
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  • EssendonEssendon Member Posts: 4,546 ■■■■■■■■■■
    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.
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  • tstrip007tstrip007 Member Posts: 308 ■■■■□□□□□□
    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.
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  • EssendonEssendon Member Posts: 4,546 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Good idea about not saving login info! Are you able to view the VM's console and poke inside the guest's OS?
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  • tstrip007tstrip007 Member Posts: 308 ■■■■□□□□□□
    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.
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  • EssendonEssendon Member Posts: 4,546 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Fairly basic then. I might just persist with VPN'ing in for now!
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  • kj0kj0 Member Posts: 767
    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.
    2017 Goals: VCP6-DCV | VCIX
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  • jibbajabbajibbajabba Member Posts: 4,317 ■■■■■■■■□□
    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 ..
    My own knowledge base made public: http://open902.com :p
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  • SimonD.SimonD. Member Posts: 111
    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
    My Blog - http://www.everything-virtual.com
    vExpert 2012\2013\2014\2015
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