Downloads
I’ve created this page as a center point of all download links that I’ve came accross, these are bunch of free and trial version but feel free to contact me if I’m missing any tool or application of you have any suggestion to make about this page.
- Visio, Internet and Misc:
VMware Support Toolbar by vmwaresupport.toolbar.com: Very cool tool bar and this can help you browse any VMware KB easily
vSphere Plugin for WordPress by nikapedia.com: This is a cool wordpress Plugin for any blogger who which to show his Lab state onto his own Blog.
Visio icon pack by Xtravirt: It contains over 70 unique icons together with a user guide and sample diagram templates.
- Deployment and Customisation tools:
The Ultimate Deployment by ulitametdeployment.com: This tool will help deploying your ESX and ESXi through a PXE solution, more can be found on the users Website.
ESXi Customizer by v-front.blogspot.com: Help you customize the ESXi ISO Installation, haven’t tried this on ESXi 5 but works fine on 4.x
- Storage and Storage Management:
vDisk Informer by Virtualizeplanet.com: This tool will help you find aligned and misaligned vmdisk.
UBERAlign by Nikapedia.com: This tool is used to identify and correct the VM disk Alignment Issues. More on this tool on Nikapedia.com
QUEST vOptimizer WasteFiner by Quest.com: Quickly reclaim over Allocated VM Storage and reduce cost, this will also help you check your Disk alignment in the same time.
StorageVIEW by vKernel.com: Provides nearly instant analysis of VM infrastructure path latency.
Storage Response Time Monitor by Solarwinds.com: Storage Response Time Monitor makes keeping track of your storage response times and latency issues easier than ever!
Virtual SAN by PHDvirtual.com: Virtual SAN appliance for VMware ESX 3 Server provides the benefits of shared VMFS storage without the cost of a SAN. Utilizing otherwise unused local storage in the ESX server, Virtual SAN facilitates enterprise-level features such as vMotion, DRS and HA.
Openfiler by Openfiler.com: Is simple and easy network storage operating system, fronted by a web based management user interface. You can take advantage of file-based Network Attached Storage and block-based Storage Area Networking functionality in a single cohesive framework.
- ESX, ESXi and vCenter Monitoring:
Hyperic HQ by SpringSource.com: An application monitoring and performance Management in Physical, Virtual and Cloud environment
Xangati by xangati.com: Another Monitoring and health tool for your Virtual Infrastructure
Veeam Monitor by Veeam.com: Health check.
Veeam Monitor
Veeam Reporter by Veeam.com: This is an excellent reporting solution for a large and small organization.
Veeam Business View by veeam.com: This will help you categorize and group your cluster, hosts, Virtual machines and datastore by criteria such as business unit, department and SLA.
VM Monitor by Solarwinds.com:
SolarWind V Monitor
vSphere Mini Monitor by nikapedia.com: As the name just says, this is a Mini monitor.
CapacityView by vkernel.com: is a capacity assessment tool that provides diagnostics on performance and utilization issues in your VMware Infrastructure.
RVTools by robware.com: Display information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts. Interacting with VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX 3.5, ESX3i, ESX4i and vSphere 4
vAlarm by Xtravirt: vAlarm is a Windows® based application which monitors alarms generated by VMware® vCenter
VMTurbo Monitor by vmturbo.com: This is a Health summery dashboard that provides problem/impact identification across your entire virtualization infrastructure. The monitor offers system administrators complete visibility into their virtual infrastructure
- Backup and Disaster Recovery tools:
Backup and recovery by Paragon: Create an exact copy of your PC including the operating system, applications, user settings and all data, set differential backups and so on.
- Security:
TripWire ConfigCheck by Tripwire.com: Tool that check your security comparing to the VMware Infrastructure 3 Security Hardening
Astro Security Gateway Essentials: The Essential Firewall Edition is a free version of the Astaro Security Gateway software and offers fundamental security functions to help protect any business network.
Astaro Security Gateway Essential Firewall Edition
- P2V and V2V Converters:
VMware vCenter Converter by VMware.com: Convert your Physical Machines to VMware Virtual machines
Converter
StarWind V2V Converter by StarWinds: Starwind Converter is a V2V conversion tool for Virtual machines. yu can use it to convert VMDK to VHD (Not that I which you to do) and VHD to VMDK.
- Command, Scripting and PowerPacks:
PuTTY: Well-known telnet, SSH client used to remote and manage ESX and ESXi Hosts.
PowerGUI Powerpack v3 by virtu-al.net: Excellent Admin tool for day to day tasks built on PowerShell Scripting.
Quest PowerGUI by Quest.com: This is a Graphical UI and script editor and can be easily integrated with VMware ESX and ESXi
vSphere PowerCLI by VMware.com: Well Known command-line and scripting tool built on PowerShell.
- VM Administration and Management:
Xtravirt RDP Client by Xtravirt.com: The Xtravirt vSphere RDP Plug-in provides integration of the Windows Remote Desktop tool with the VMware vSphere Client.
VMware Guest Console (VGC) by VMware Flings: is a VMware Fling tool which allow you to manage the Virtual machines like Task Management
Application VIEW by vKernel.com: is a free virtual machine monitoring tool that diagnoses and resolves performance issues in application virtual machines.
VM Console by Solarwinds.com: Our free VM Console enables you to bounce your virtual machines without ever logging into your Hosts; you can track up/down status, take snapshots, and restart VMs.
VM Monitor by Solarwinds.com: This is an easy-to-use desktop tool that continuously monitors a VMware® ESX Server and its virtual machines.
vCenter Mobile Access by VMware (flings) Lab: vCMA is a fully configured and ready to run virtual appliance that is required to manage your datacenter from mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets (iPad).
Thinapped vSphere Client by VMware Fling Lab: Run vSphere client 4.1 in a snap. No install, just download the EXE and double-click, Simple.
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