StorageVIEW has been replaced by New Free VM Tool: vScope Explorer
The former VKernel free VM tool known as "StorageVIEW" has been end-of-lifed.
The issues that StorageVIEW *would* have alerted you to can be seen in the "Performance Issues" view of our new Free Tool, vScope Explorer. Go ahead and download vScope Explorer right now for enterprise-wide visualization of performance, capacity and resource efficiency health across multiple vCenters and resources.
vScope Explorer System Requirements and Installation
vScope Explorer installs as a single virtual appliance in OVF Format. System requirements are:
- 4 vCPUs
- 8 GB of memory
- 64 GB of storage space
- VMware ESX 3.0 or vCenter 2.5 or higher
After download, installation takes just minutes. Quick install steps and an installation video is available here. After an initial data collection, vScope Explorer will begin to provide visualization results based on intensive data analysis immediately.
Other Free VM Tools
- ApplicationVIEW allows system administrators to effortlessly monitor and diagnose capacity bottlenecks in the environment’s top five application VMs.
- CapacityVIEW quickly finds capacity, performance, and over-allocation issues within the entire virtualized infrastructure.
- Capacity Modeler easily predicts capacity and performance issues from proposed hardware, maintenance and configuration changes.
