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Very silently this week VMware released another free product: the VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant (VIMA) 1.0 (build 124830).

VIMA is a 64-bit virtual machine where VMware administrators can execute scripts and install agents that they would normally try to run on the console operating system (COS).

The VM includes a logging component, an authentication module (vi-fastpass) that supports non-interactive logins, the Remote CLI and the VI Perl Toolkit.
It basically acts as a execution proxy for programs that interact with the virtual infrastructure, saving the COS (where available, think about ESXi) from dangerous installations.

The product is free of charge and available here.

Labels: Releases, VMware