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James_Fry_12900
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Sep 11, 2013
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f5 VMware MGMT Plugin Decommissioned?

Does anyone know what happened to the VMware Management Plugin? I'm looking forward to implementing it in my environment to help me manage my active/standby 1600's. It seems pretty useful, however, f...
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  • simon_hamilton-'s avatar
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    Sep 11, 2013

    Yes indeed it has been removed. We never updated it beyond vSphere 4, while it could be made to work on 4.1 and 5 it was less than ideal. If you need similar functionality in an alternative package I would suggest our vCO plug-in instead. Email vco@f5.com to get it.

     

    Simon

     

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simon_hamilton-
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Sep 11, 2013

Yes I think we're going to go one further and remove all references to it.

 

There's a blog post about the plug-in here: https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/automating-application-delivery-with-big-ip-and-vmware-vcenter-orchestrator

 

Simon