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Since James Brown rightfully took the title of “the hardest working man in show business”, I suppose that it is only right that we start calling Andrew Kutz the hardest working man in VMware Infrastructure Plug-ins.

Last month, I told you how Andrew reverse engineered plug-in capabilities for VI3 VirtualCenter. And to kick things off, he not only created what many called an extremely useful or much needed GUI plug-in tool for VMware’s Storage VMotion, but he also started to document the process so that other interested developers could begin to create their own useful plug-ins as well.

Andrew and his company, lostcreations, clearly state that these documented procedures and the plug-ins being created are in no way endorsed or supported by VMware. They are provided “as-is”.

There is a real benefit to plug-ins to those tools that make managing your infrastructure easier, at the same time, we have to manage the virtualization platform. That we know what tools are used, (in terms of licensing, audit trail and compatibility) are aspects of the implementation of your virtualization solution you will need to think about. Focus on delivering the core aspects, whether they’re performance, dynamic provisioning or simply reporting capacity per physical server, the rest will follow. A good read, do check it out.

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