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Here comes the second and last tutorial in the Rove Mobile Admin 4.2 series. In this video I used BlackBerry to demonstrate some administration tasks in the VI3 including:

• Exploring the VI environment (Datacenter, Cluster, ESX, VMs ..etc.)
• Analyzing the Events on an ESX host
• Power on VMs
• Searching for VMs.
• Edit VM settings (like memory & CPU)
• Manage VMs using the Mobile Admin WMI
• Connect and explore the SQL server hosting the vCenter’s DB
• Viewing the status of the vCenter’s services, and the ability to start, stop or restart them.

I actualy forgot one of the most important parts, which is the SSH access directly into the ESX servers, I may screenshot that later on, but for now I just wanted to point that it’s possible through the Mobile Admin.

Enough said, let’s get to it..

In this tutorial, which will be divided into two parts, I will demonstrate the installation and operation of ROVE's Mobile Admin 4.2 which comes with out-of-the-box support for VI3. I found it very useful to have my complete VI3 environment under my control 24/7 wherever I am. If you will be using BlackBerry (my case) you will need to have the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) with MDS. If you are using Windows Mobile, you will just need a normal VPN access in order to get into your corporate network, and the Mobile Admin will take care of the rest.

In the first part of this tutorial I will show you the backend installation of the Mobile admin, and in the second one I will show the actual BlackBerry usage for managing your virtual environment. So, without further ado, let’s get to it..

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