All products here are free because usually, you can upgrade to a paid product to get even more functions. Free VMware Monitoring Tools are the essentials that VMware admins can use and implement when managing virtual infrastructures running VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V. Many of them have been awarded during VMworld. There are also other tools which are useful for IT admins and technicians. Those are more specific tools for troubleshooting Windows, Partitioning tools, Microsoft Active Directory, SQL, Exchange and other enterprise-class apps There is no particular order of listing those -:) Full Edition v9.5 (Trial): and play with full version during 30 days. After 30 days it transforms itself into a free version which can do full backups of single VM at a time of VMware ESX/ESXi environment. Veeam ONE Free = Veeam Reporter + Veeam Monitor + Veeam Business View. ![]() Media Types Last Updated 2017-12-18 Registration Procedure(s) Expert Review for Vendor and Personal Trees. Expert(s) Ned Freed (primary), Murray Kucherawy (secondary). Decision Tree Template In Visio Downloads. Microsoft Visio 2010 Software Development Kit 1.0. Decision Tree Template In Visio; Decision Tree Add In. ![]() Get it. Full data collection, multi-user support, and Microsoft SQL Server backend. There are no limits on the number of hosts, virtual machines (VMs), users or the size of your archive — you can discover, document and analyze your entire virtual infrastructure, and maintain a complete history of all objects, settings, and changes. Operations Manager Lite – Operations Manager Lite assures application performance while utilizing the infrastructure as efficiently as possible. It is a 100% free product for one VMware vCenter cluster with up to four hosts. Virtual Health Monitor – Multi-Hypervisor, can span multiple data centers or hosts. No number of hosts limitations or VMs limitation. The Virtual Health Monitor is. Packaged as single Virtual Appliance. Completely agent-less solution. It uses the “same engine” as the full product Turbonomic Operations Manager, When you download the product, it automatically downloads the full 30 days trial where you can test all the features. Nakivo Backup and Replication – Quite new company, but already version 6 of their product! ![]() They also have a completely or if you are VMUG member, VMware vExpert, VCP, VSP, VTSP, or VCI you can receive a of NAKIVO Backup & Replication for your home or work lab. I published several articles about Nakivo. Check out the latest one. Latest feature? For example, the Flash VM Boot feature allowing to recover VMs directly from backup repository. HPE VM Explorer: VM Explorer is a backup tool and replication tool. Check the product page. The free version has limited functions (can only do full backups, and other limits), but I like the easy to use and install. My latest post her What’s new in HPE VM Explorer 6.0? VSphere 6.5 support – Added support for ESXi 6.5 which allows adding vCenter server v 6.5 and the underlying hosts/clusters, into the management UI. Exchange 2013/2016 recovery – Added Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016 e-mail recover. Email exchange stays crucial at the enterprise. The necessity to recover individual emails instead the whole mailbox is usually the decision point when seeking for backup/recovery solution for MS Exchange. Altaro VM backup –. Check it out! The free version can backup just 2 VMs per host. All interesting features are in the more advanced, Unlimited edition. But you can start with the free one. The Free edition does not provide offsite backups, file level restores or a possibility to restore on a different host either. Check the edition compare and pricing. Vembu Free Edition – Vembu Technologies releasing new Vembu VM Backup Suite Free Edition for VMware, Hyper-V, KVM and physical environments. The latest release of their software is v3.7. We have reviewed one of the previous releases of Vembu product here –. The free product compared to the full, licensed product, does NOT allow you to use, Scheduler, Forever Incremental/reverse incremental, Retention policies, Reconfigure backup job(s), Replication, Failover and Failback,, Disk level recovery, Automated Backup verification, Offsite DR Replication; Cloud DR Replication; WAN acceleration, Bandwidth throttling. Interested in Vembu? Check out their website and Free SoftEther VPN Server – The product consists of several modules (server, client, bridge) and is available for Windows (including ARM machines), Linux and MacOS, or Android/iPAD. I’m usually not a much into a VPN software solutions, but this one seems to be quite different. It’s built by Japanese university of Tsukuba and covers multiple use cases and has some built-in utilities for Dynamic DNS (no need for external IP being Fixed IP) and free Microsoft Azure VPN. • Free OpenSource Software • Resistance to highly-restricted firewalls. • Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iPhone, iPad and Windows Mobile • SSL-VPN (HTTPS) and 6 major VPN protocols (OpenVPN, IPsec, L2TP, MS-SSTP, L2TPv3 and EtherIP) are all supported as VPN tunneling underlay protocols. Read more Snapwatcher for VMware – snapshot detection for VMware infrastructure. Can detect invalid, broken snapshots. Easy to install the app. Which can also fix and delete broken snapshots from within the console. It’s possible to hook several vCenter servers and have the whole environment being monitored. Download from • Monitor snapshots across VMware infrastructure – can connect to multiple vCenters at a time to give you an overview of snapshots usage, size, history • Gain precious space on your storage systems – Provides Top 5 by size, to find the most space taking snapshots from within your infrastructure. • Fixing Broken Snapshots – deletes a broken, old and invalid snapshots with a single click to gain space. • Delete VM Snapshots within the main console – several vCenter servers or individual ESXi hosts can be managed with single pane of glass LPAR2RRD – The tool offers you end-to-end views of your server environment and can save you significant money in operation monitoring and by predicting utilization bottlenecks in your virtualized environment. You can also generate policy-based alerts, provide capacity reports and forecasting data. It is Free Performance and monitoring tool distributed via GNU v3. For customers under support, there is distributed the enterprise edition with additional. (paid support). The tool supports IBM Power Systems™ and VMware™ virtualization platforms. It is agent-less (it receives everything from the management stations like vCenter or HMC). The collected data set can be extended with data provided by the OS Agents or NMON files. The product can be installed on Linux, Unix or AIX systems. Or you can use VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V. PoshPAIG – free utility called PoshPAIG ( PowerShell Audit Installation GUI) is developed and maintained by Boe Prox. Download from the product. The tool allows you to Audit installed patches, Install patches remotely. The possibility to export the results to CSV files is also included. This very interesting feature for doing PowerShell Audit and Patch Installation on windows server systems, where you need to gather a list of patches deployed etc. You can also remote – reboot the managed servers. Read my article on how to install and use this tool. Veeam Endpoint Backup – destined for physical PCs/ laptops. Can do a volume or file level backups. The restore of Full PC/ laptop or individual files is possible. The product is free and will stay free. Recently updated to support Windows 10, the of partition when restoring option and Universal restore (to dissimilar hardware) options enhancements. Adds e-mail reports or possibility to eject the USB disk after backup – additional protection against Ransomware! Veeam Endpoint Backup is destined to protect physical computers/laptops by creating image level backups (note: can also do file level backup but is slower) where the 1st backup is Full and the next backups are incremental. Veeam FastSCP for Microsoft Azure – Veeam FastSCP for Microsoft Azure is meant to be used by developers willing to copy a file to and from VMs running in Microsoft Azure. So you can copy files to and from the inside of a VM, which is normally not so fast, and it’s painful if, for example, you do it through RDP. It’s standalone and Free tool from Veeam. No integration with other software products from Veeam. Check the detailed post and download link Extrasphere App – Migration of VMDKs, VMs between hosts without vCenter (even with Free ESXi Hypervisor) • VM disks migration to another datastore located on the same host (NO downtime). Basically, a storage vmotion, without vCenter, without svmotion license • VM migration to another standalone host using shared storage (NFS) – suspend/resume used • VM migration changing both host and datastore – suspend/resume used Get the App from website and (with video) about the utility. —————————————————————– Lightweight VMs for Home lab and Nested lab MicroCore Linux (with open-source VMware Tools) – source: Mike Laverick’s blog. The author is who put it together. Size: 64MB RAM/SCSI HD (LSI Logic) 1GB (Thinly Provisioned) Root Account Password: root SSH account: VMware1! SSH password: VMware1! MicroCore Linux – in OVA Format VMware OS Optimization tool – The tool has been newly updated. It’s fast utility which can optimize different settings which slowing down the VDI desktops when using default settings only. Many services, registry settings, scheduled tasks etc. The latest release has updated templates for Windows 7/8/10/Server – based on VMware’s OS Optimization Guide, New templates for Windows 2008/2012 RDSH servers for use as a desktop, Single portal EXE design for ease of deployment and distribution, Combination of Remote and Local tools into one tool, Better template management, with built-in and user-definable templates, Results report export feature. Various bug fixes, usability enhancements, and GUI layout updates. Get your copy of VMware Os Optimization utility. Free Backup Tool for Desktop OS – software from Keriver is able to do a full, incremental or differential images of the underlying OS. If you look for a tool which does provide some kind of central management console, this is not the tool you should be looking for. It’s a rather simple tool for few individual desktops. In the past, I’ve been using the well-known names like Norton Ghost or Acronis, which are a long time being on the market, but today I stumbled through this too and I thought that it’s worth sharing VDI calculator – VDI calculator allows is used for VDI projects for sizing and calculating VDI environments. This tool which was previously Flash-based online tool can be now executed offline, without an internet connection. Provided as a free tool online, by Andre Leibovici – www.myvirtualcloud.net. It helps to do calculations concerning the sizing of your VMware View Infrastructure. The VDI calculator is targeted for VMware View designs, however, you can use the tool for any VDI running on top of the vSphere infrastructure. The latest update includes the metrics for VMware Storage Accelerator – Content Read Based Cache (CRBC). Starwind Starwind Virtual SAN – Free version (limited to 2 hosts). The free version of offers some good possibilities: Data Deduplication, Unlimited storage capacity & an unlimited number of supported concurrent iSCSI connections. Full Production use is allowed. StarWind Virtual SAN Free is completely unrestricted: it is allowed for production use, supports all usage scenarios of the commercial version, has a perpetual license, and is not feature- or functionality-limited version of. • No Capacity Restrictions – you can use as many capacities for your mirrors, as you like (previously restricted) • No Scalability Restrictions – as many nodes as you like. (previously limited to 2-nodes only) • No Time Limit on License – The Free license if for life. After 30 days, the only management option you’ll have is PowerShell or CLI. • Production use – can be used in production, but if anything goes wrong, you will only find support through community forums. • PowerShell Scripts – StarWind Virtual SAN Free is shipped with a set of ready to use PowerShell scripts allowing users to quickly deploy the Virtual SAN infrastructure. • No StarWind Support – only community-based support. • StarWind HA – The shared Logical Unit is basically “mirrored” between the hosts, maintaining data integrity and continuous operation even if one or more nodes fail. Every active host acts as a storage controller and every Logical Unit has duplicated or triplicated data back-end. • No virtual tape library VTL as on the paid version. Caching – a multi-level cache mechanism can use gigabytes of RAM and converts it into extremely fast level 1 write-back or write-through cache. Continuous Data Protection and Snapshots that are completely compatible with VSS (Volume Snapshot Services). ISCSI boot is fully supported with iSCSI boot capable NIC. Download your copy of. Check out my articles and. Check the latest PowerShell Plus 4.7 – professional tool from Idera. There is a free tool from Idera which has appeared recently on my radar, and even if I’m not a PowerShell guru, this tool might make me “like” the PowerShell thingy a bit more than usual. Read my detailed article about PowerShell Plus 4.7. Download Free PowerShell Plus 4.7. Microsoft It’s fairly difficult to get SQL Express with or without the management studio, with 3 different versions (2008, 2012 and 2014.). I gathered the links to this 6 direct downloads links (x64 bit versions only!!) SQL Server (Express version) with or without Management Studio – direct Download links: • 2008R2 SP2 –. • 2014 – or • 2016 – SQL Express 2016 or () • 2017 – SQL Express 2017 After downloading the small installer, execute it and chose Download Media option. (see bellow) Uninstall Office 2016, Office 2013, or Office 365 Using the Easy Fix Tool The tool is in CAB format and you can use this fix from Microsoft to uninstall Office from a central location on a single PC or multiple PCs at once. WSUS Offline Update Free Utility Allows “Offline” patching of Windows systems. Client and server OS are supported. There is also patches for Microsft Office and in different languages. • Client OS – Windows 7, 8, 10 patches • Server OS – Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012R2 or 2016 patches • Office – where there are 2010, 2013, 2016 with different languages • Legacy products – Vista, Server 2008, Office 2007 • Options to verify downloaded Updates • C++ Runtime libraries and.NET • Microsoft Security Essentials • Windows Defender definitions • Create ISO (or USB) image – per selected product and language OR per selected language • Copy to directory – this option allows you to copy the patches elsewhere. • Option to specify your local WSUS server is handy too where you can save your time and just “collect” what you need from your WSUS server running on your LAN. Windows Management Framework 5.0 Has updates to Windows PowerShell, Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC), Windows Remote Management (WinRM), Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). • Download the correct package for your operating system and architecture from. The following architectures are supported. • Windows Server 2012 R2 • x64: W2K12R2-KB3094174-x64.msu • Windows Server 2012 • x64: W2K12-KB3094175-x64.msu • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 • x64: W2K8R2-KB3094176-x64.msu • Windows 8.1 • x64: W2K12R2-KB3094174-x64.msu • x86: Win8.1-KB3094174-x86.msu • Windows 7 SP1 • x64: W2K8R2-KB3094176-x64.msu • x86: Win7-KB3094176-x86.msu • Close all Windows PowerShell windows. • Instructions specific to Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 • Ensure following prerequisites have been met: • Latest service pack is installed. • is installed. • WinRM Dependency: • Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) depends on WinRM. WinRM is not enabled by default on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. To enable WinRM, in a Windows PowerShell elevated session, run Set-WSManQuickConfig. Core Configurator 2.0 – free config tool for Windows Server 2008R2 Core – works with Windows Server 2008R2 x64 core only. The tool is provided as an ISO, so to run the Core Configurator 2.0 just mount the ISO and run Start_CoreConfig.wsf. Here is the link to the developer’s page: VMware (This tool is getting old). VCenter Pre-Upgrade Checker – The VMware vCenter Pre-Upgrade Checker not only detects problems but also miss-configuration and can avoid performance problems after the upgrade. The tool produces an output single zip file. Inside of this zip file, there is the database signature file and also the message log from running the upgrade checker tool. AOMEI PE Builder – Supported on Windows 7/8 based systems (x32 or x64) but also on Windows Server 2008/2012 based systems. The server platform support is a good thing in the case that you’re system administrator and maintaining physical server boxes. It allows creating Win PE bootable environment without installing Microsoft WAIK. The tool has also some built-in tools and additionally, you can add your own utilities very easy which gets exported to the final ISO. Note: You can install it only on Win 7/8 (not 8.1) or server 2008/2012 (not R2). But once created you can use it to boot systems from windows XP/2000/Vista/7/8/8.1 and Server 2000/2003/. WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics. This free software helps you to find out where all your disk space has gone. It is free and open-source graphical disk usage analyzer for Microsoft Windows. We have previously reported on a different, but similar, software called which has also a paid alternative. WinDirStat was re-programmed for Windows from Linux by Bernhard Seifert. The original program is based on Stefan Hundhammer’s program KDirStat. The software is distributed under GNU General Public License v2. Depending which user you are, your Windows OS can become slower and slower over time and is eating more and more disk space. One day you might wonder Where all my disk space is gone? The files can be literally anywhere, usually hidden in sub-directories. To check all different sub-trees and folders manually and see if there are some high capacity files, it’s impossible. One would have to open and collapse hundreds or thousands of directories. Download Page of. PuTTyTray – It’s a free tool which can be personalized and which is cool. One of the personalization possibilities is, as you can imagine and according to its name, to have it running in Windows tray with eventually an option to open the window with a simple click. The personalizations can be done via Right clicking the app > Change settings.
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