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I’m sitting in David David’s 3rd VMworld 2010 session on 10 Best Free Tools for vSphere Management. It’s his third session because the first two (one on Monday and one earlier today) were packed and people were actually waiting outside the door trying to get in!
I guess everyone really loves free tools!
Up on the stage with David is Kendrick Coleman who is chiming in on his impressions of all of the free tools from his experiences with using them. Kendrick actually rated these free tools and has a whole list of free vSphere tools on his blog.
Without further ado, here are the top 10 best free tools for vSphere management straight from VMworld 2010 complete with links to where you can download each and every one of them. Enjoy!
David David’s 10 Best Free Tools for vSphere Management
- VMware Guest Console (VGC)
- Veeam FastSCP
- Trilead VM Explorer
- vSphere Client RDP Plug-in by XtraVirt
- PowerCLI, PowerGUI, VIM PowerPack and Alan Renouf’s VMware Community PowerPack
- VKernel CapacityView
- vSphere Mini Monitor
- RVT Tools
- Vizioncore’s vFoglight QuickView
- Xangati for ESX
Bonus vSphere Free Tools
- Solarwinds VM Console
- Plug-in Wizard & vDisk Waste Finder
- Hyper 9 Search Plug -in and GuessMyOS
- VMware Go
- PuTTY
The session is ending, but I’ll make sure to post the slides from David’s presentation so that you can get more info on them. One last thing I wanted to mention was David’s survey — you can vote for your favorite top free vSphere tools of 2010 here:
Vote now: Top Free vSphere Tools of 2010 survey.
Thanks for coming to the session. Really glad so many people enjoyed it.
It was a great session Kendrick! I’m happy that I got a chance to see it in person!
Good session. I already use a lot of the free tools that were mentioned, still, it was beneficial to hear how others are using them as well as find a few new goodies to try out.
Thanks for the info.