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VMware HealthAnalyzer automates the collection of VMware Infrastructure or VMware vSphere™ inventory, configuration and utilization data, analyzes data and recommends grades, and generates a report card that presents observations, findings and data categorized by VMware Health Check best practices. HealthAnalyzer can be used by VMware consultants and VMware Solution Providers to improve efficiency and accelerate the delivery of a services engagement such as the VMware Health Check. Consultants can use HealthAnalyzer as a Health Check workbench to capture and review observations, findings, and data, provide actionable recommendations, and generate a Health Check Report for your customer.

What’s new in VMware HealthAnalyzer version 3.0:

-         A new catalog of best practices developed for VMware vSphere

-         Observations tab presents observations (summary of findings),recommendations and a justification for each analyzed best practice area

-         Enhanced best practices navigation pane that provides powerful filtering and grouping capabilities

-         Collection of VMware VirtualCenter/vCenter diagnostics data

-         New Virtual Appliance Web Console Management User Interface

-         Support for running the HealthAnalyzer virtual application on Windows 7

-         Base Health Check mode enables use of HealthAnalyzer as a presales tool

-         Select observations/BP to include in the Health Check report

-         New Health Check Report

-         A new catalog of best practices developed for VMware vSphere

VMware HealthAnalyzer 3.0 is available from the VMware partner central.

VMware has released version 1.0 of VMware HealthAnalyzer. VMware HealthAnalyzer is an virtual appliance that collects and analyses the VMware configuration and analyses categorized by VMware Health check best practices.  This tool can be uses by VMware consultants and VMware Authorized Consultant (VAC) partners.

The data can be exported to HTML and Microsoft Excel.

Some screenshots from VMware HealthAnalyzer:

The VMware HealthAnalyzer Appliance started

Report created

ESX hardware exported to Microsoft Excel.

Complete report exported to HTML.

I had problems using the VMware HealthAnalyzer on VMware VC 2.5 Update 2. When i try to Create a new Report Card i’ve got the following message:

Dataset for the report card is not valid. Dataset id=12 ; Datset File Name=/usr/share/ironman/capture/captureFiles/c20080817230624

VMware has confirmed there is a known issue, VMware HealthAnalyzer is not able to parse the version of the SDK correctly and released a fix. The are coming soon with a new version.