Free Tools for VMware

  1. Veeam Backup & Recovery 6.5 free edition
  2. UniTrends Enterprise Backup Free Edition (Protect 4 VMs For Free) or Unitrends NFR Edition (2 sockets and 2 application-enabled servers FREE)
  3. Trilead VM Explorer Free VMware & Hyper-V backup (max 2 hosts)
  4. NexentaStor Community Edition Free 18Tb ZFS Virtual Storage Appliance
  5. RVTools is a windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts
  6. Foglight for Virtualization Free Edition – a bunch of cool tools that are bundled together in a new name: Foglight for Virtualization
  7. VMTurbo Virtual Health Monitor - Virtual Health Monitor offers free real-time performance monitoring solution without limitations
  8. VM Aware Database Performance - IgniteFree shows performance bottlenecks deep inside your Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 or Sybase instance
  9. Veeam ONE Free Edition for VMware and Hyper-V
  10. VMware vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA) is a fully configured and ready to run virtual appliance that is required to manage your datacenter from mobile devices.
  11. VMware Boomerang is a radically simple client application that allows you to use multiple vSphere servers simultaneously
  12. VMware Guest Console (VGC)
  13. Cloud Cleaner
  14. Solarwinds VM to Could Calculator
  15. Onyx proxy between the vSphere Client and the vCenter Server. Monitors the network communication between the two and translates it into an executable PowerShell code.
  16. vCenter XVP Manager and Converter
  17. vAlarm vAlarm for vSphere
  18. Xangati for vSphere VMware visibility and troubleshooting tool!
  19. Powergui Graphical User Interface & Script Editor for Microsoft Windows PowerShell
  20. vGhetto Script Repository
  21. UBERAlign free alignment of Virtual Machine disks (Nickapedia)
  22. Thinware vBackup
  23. PCoIP Log Viewer 2.0
  24. Quest Workspace Assessment Tool
  25. ESXi 5.0 / ESXi 5.1 Host Backup & Restore GUI Utility (PowerCLI based)

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About Marco Broeken

Marco Broeken is the founder of vClouds.nl and works for ITQ Consultancy as a Virtualization Consultant. He has over 15 years experience as a system engineer and consultant specialized in virtualization.