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At VMworld 2010 in San Francisco and Europe, I will be speaking at a session about the top free vSphere tools of 2010. I love free vSphere tools, use them myself, and have written about them since I published a top 10 list on free vSphere tools in 2008.
However, everyone’s virtual infrastructure is different and different people will receive different value out of vSphere tools. SO, while I may have an opinion on what the top vSphere tools are, I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
Please VOTE for the top free vSphere tools below! I will calculate the results and announce those rankings in video form – before the end of 2010.
Note: If you want to try out these tools for yourself, links to those tools can be found below the survey.
Note #2: Vendors, don’t vote for your own tools as I am tracking IP addresses but please encourage your customers who use your free tools to do so.
- Veeam Monitor Free
- Veeam Reporter Free
- Veeam FastSCP
- XtraVirt RDP Plug-in
- Ultimate Deployment Appliance (UDA)
- Solarwinds VM Monitor
- Solarwinds VM Console
- TriLead VM Explorer (VMX)
- RV Tools
- VMware Guest Console (VGC)
- PowerGUI and VMware PowerPacks
- vKernel CapacityView
- vKernel StorageView
- vKernel AppView
- vSphere Mini Monitor
- Vizioncore vFoglight Quickview
- Vizioncore vEcoShell
- Vizioncore vOptimizer WasteFinder
- Vizioncoe vConverter SC
- Xangati for ESX
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Enjoyed the Freetools Session @ VMworld. Love the Free VEEAM Reporter.
Isn’t Xangati for ESX a demo trial that expires after a set period of usage? If so, I don’t think it should be considered a “free” tool.
Hi Jason,
No, Xangati for ESX is a free solution with limited features as compared to the full Xangati version. The full Xangati version with all features is available as a demo for a limited period of time. Xangati for ESX can be used forever with no time limit.
Thanks for voting!
-David
Missing vmClient from Eric Sloof, voted manually
Use fastSCP everyday