Folks,
I'm working with a firm that's migrating from another cloud platform to vCD. It's going to take us 30-60 days to design, build and implement a full vCD infrastructure but one of our first steps will be to use converter to import client workloads from the old platform. We'll build a basic cluster with HA and DRS which should dramatically improve stability then we'll migrate existing clients in.
In parallel, we'll design and build a vCD environment, test it till it passes then make it available.
The tricky part is that there will be a period of 1-2 months where clients are running on ESX but without the pretty dashboard vCD provides them. I need an interim solution that allows external, internet-based users to see which of their workloads are up or down. They dont have to be able to change anything, straight real time reporting will do but I cant spend a fortune on something we'll only use for a couple months.
Any suggestions what to look for?