VMWare tools free
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Free Tools
| Tool Name | Description | Category | Developer | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Veeam Backup Free Edition | Veeam Backup Free Edition provides a number of powerful utilities for managing VMs. It complements your regular backup tool by providing easy ad hoc backups of individual VMs. | Data Protection | Veeam | Download |
| Unitrends Enterprise Backup | Unitrends Enterprise Backup™ protects by bridging virtual, physical, and cloud. Unitrends has provided next-generation enterprise-class data protection to thousands of customers. | Data Protection | Unitrends | Download |
| Recovery Time Actual calculator | This Free Tool lets you quickly calculate how long it will take to recover the critical VMs in your data center. | Data Protection | Unitrends | Download |
| VMTurbo Datacenter Stencils | Create diagrams of your datacenter using VMTurbo’s free datacenter stencils pack for Microsoft Visio or for OmniGraffle. | Graphics | VMTurbo | Download |
| VMware Visio Stencils | Visio Stencils derived from VMware graphics. | Graphics | Technodrone | Download |
| Veeam Stencils for Microsoft Visio | Veeam Stencils is a free collection of VMware Visio stencils that can be used by ESX administrators, system integrators and datacenter managers to create their own diagrams in Microsoft Visio 2003 or higher. | Graphics | Veeam | Download |
| PicPick | PicPick is user friendly and full of features for creating your image, suitable for software developers, graphic designers and home user. | Graphics | PicPick | Download |
| HotShots | HotShots is an application for capturing screens and saving them in a variety of image formats as well as adding annotations and graphical data (arrows, lines, texts, ...). | Graphics | Open Source | Download |
| Skitch | Skitch is a free, innovative, easy-to-use application that's changed the way people capture, annotate and share images. You can take screenshots or open photos, add arrows, shapes and text, crop, resize, then share your work with friends, family and coworkers. | Graphics | Evernote | Download |
| FastStone Capture | A powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. | Graphics | FastStone Capture | Download |
| Screenshot Captor | Screenshot Captor is a program for taking screenshots on your computer. | Graphics | DonationCoder | Download |
| Xtravirt Presentation Pack | These 4 individual packs contain extensively detailed icons and imagery to illustrate any virtualization solution. | Graphics | Xtravirt | Download |
| Paint.NET | Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. | Graphics | dotPDN LLC | Download |
| VMware PowerPoint Icons and Images | The attached PowerPoint presentations contains VMware Icons and Images for use in presentation. | Graphics | VMware Labs | Download |
| VisioCafe | Huge collection of free vendor specific Visio stencils. | Graphics | VisioCafe | Download |
| Visio Action Pack | The original Visio icon pack for VMware & virtualization contains over 70 unique icons together with a user guide and sample diagram templates. | Graphics | Xtravirt | Download |
| FastSCP | Veeam FastSCP can copy files over 6 times faster than WinSCP and other SCP-based tools as it uses full network capacity. | Management | Veeam | Download |
| Trilead VM Explorer | Trilead VM Explorer is a management tool that eases management, backup and disaster recovery tasks in your VMware ESX environment. | Management | Trilead AG | Download |
| mksTaskbarPlugin | A module which loads into both Explorer and vmware-vmx and renders a resizable thumbnail of your choice of VM console to a panel on the Windows taskbar. | Management | VMware Labs | Download |
| Ops Panel for ESX | A script tool which runs on the client browser and extends the default ESX server web page with a short list of all available virtual machines. | Management | VMware Labs | Download |
| vCenter XVP Manager and Converter | Provides basic virtualization management capabilities for non-vSphere hypervisor platforms towards enabling centralized visibility and control across heterogeneous virtual infrastructures. | Management | VMware Labs | Download |
| VMVision Manager | VMVision Manager is designed to administrate and use Virtual Machines powered by ESX VMware Hosts. | Management | VMVision | Download |
| VMware vCenter Orchestrator Plug-in for Cisco UCS 1.0 | This plug-in extends VMware's robust workflow automation solution to automate and simplify provisioning and administration for the Cisco UCS platform. | Management | VMware | Download |
| VGC | An application to manage the Guest Operating Systems installed on a VM. | Management | VMware Labs | Download |
| VIX Plugin for vCenter Orchestrator | Supports extended functionality through the use of Plug-Ins. | Management | VMware Labs | Download |
| VC StatLevelConfig | A utility that allows customers to view and reconfigure the contents of their metric collection levels. | Management | VMware Labs | Download |
| Boomerang | VMware Boomerang is a radically simple client application that allows you to use multiple vSphere servers simultaneously. | Management | VMware Labs | Download |
| PXE Manager for vCenter PXE Manager for vCenter | Enables ESXi host state (firmware) management and provisioning. | Management | VMware Labs | Download |
| VM Console | Enables you to bounce your virtual machines without ever logging into VMware! Plus, you can track up/down status, take snapshots, and restart VMs even if you’re not a VMware administrator. | Management | SolarWinds | Download |
| vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) | Allows administrators and developers to run scripts and agents to manage ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server systems. | Management | VMware | Download |
| vCenter Mobile Access (vCMA) | 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). | Management | VMware Labs | Download |
| vSphere Client RDP Plug-in | The vSphere RDP Plug-in provides integration of the Windows Remote Desktop tool with the VMware vSphere Client. | Management | Xtravirt | Download |
| Auto Deploy GUI | The Auto Deploy GUI is a vSphere plug-in for the VMware vSphere Auto Deploy component. The GUI plug-in allows a user to easily manage the setup and deployment requirements in a stateless environment managed by Auto Deploy. | Management | VMware Labs | Download |
| MCS ThinView | A VMware ThinApp Explorer for compiled ThinApp Packages that can be help to see problems in ThinApp packages. | Management | MightyCare | Download |
| Virtual USB Analyzer | A free and open source tool for visualizing logs of USB packets, from hardware or software USB sniffer tools. | Management | VMware Labs | Download |
| Thinapped vSphere Client | Run vSphere client 4.1 in a snap. No install, just download the EXE and double-click. | Management | VMware Labs | Download |
| VM Configuration Tool | A light weight tool, can configure VMware Virtual server (VM's ) resources such as CPU, RAM or execute Power operations or change the Name of the VM'S, and also it fetches comprehensive data about the servers and its virtual machines and presents them as visually elegant graphs and reports in a desktop tool dashboard. | Management | ManageEngine | Download |
| Ruby vSphere Console | A Linux console UI for vSphere, built on the RbVmomi bindings to the vSphere API. RVC is a console UI for VMware ESX and VirtualCenter. | Management | VMware Labs | Download |
| Boomerang | A radically simple client application that allows you to use multiple vSphere servers simultaneously. | Management | VMware Labs | Download |
| VMware vSphere Client for iPad | The VMware vSphere Client for iPad is a companion interface to the traditional vSphere client, optimized for viewing and managing your vSphere environment on the go. | Management | VMware | Download |
| vCenter Converter Standalone | Automate and simplify physical to virtual machine conversions as well as conversions between virtual machine formats with VMware vCenter Converter. | Migration | VMware | Download |
| InventorySnapshot | Allows a user to "snapshot" a given vCenter inventory configuration and then reproduce it. | Management | VMware Labs | Download |
| VM-to-Cloud Calculator | Our FREE VM-to-Cloud Calculator quickly discovers all of your virtual machines and estimates what it would cost to move them to the cloud. | Miscellaneous | SolarWinds | Download |
| VIB Author | The VIB Author tool allows ESXi administrator to create custom VIBs at the Community Supported level. VIB stands for vSphere Installation Bundle and is a way of packaging programs that run on ESXi hosts. The custom VIBs can then be used in house, or made available to a wider audience. | Miscellaneous | VMware Labs | Download |
| Virtual Disk Development Kit | The Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK) is a collection of C libraries, code samples, utilities, and documentation to help you create or access VMware virtual disk storage. | Miscellaneous | VMware | Download |
| Memtest86+ | Memtest86+ is a thorough, stand alone memory test for x86 architecture computers. | Miscellaneous | Open Source | Download |
| Sysinternals Live | Sysinternals Live is a service that enables you to execute Sysinternals tools directly from the Web without hunting for and manually downloading them. | Miscellaneous | Microsoft | Download |
| WinSCP | An open source free SFTP, SCP and FTP client for Windows. | Miscellaneous | Open Source | Download |
| vLogView | A Windows based application which manages VMware ESX Server log files. | Miscellaneous | Xtravirt | Download |
| ImgBurn | Allows you to create and manage ISO files to use with your VMs. | Miscellaneous | ImgBurn | Download |
| vSphere Plugin Wizard 2.0 | Use this tool to create a tabbed plugin of your favourite website or admin page. | Miscellaneous | Ricky El-Qasem | Download |
| Putty | A free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. | Miscellaneous | Simon Tatham | Download |
| vWorkspace Desktop Optimizer | A piece of software that contains our entire ‘optimizing knowledge’, Although optimized for Quest vWorkspace environments, the Quest vWorkspace Desktop Optimizer will work just as well in Citrix XenDesktop or VMware View environments. | Miscellaneous | Quest | Download |
| ESXi Configuration Backup | An automating tool for saving configurations of multiple ESXi. | Miscellaneous | SLYM Software | Download |
| Virtual Health Monitor | Virtual Health Monitor by VMTurbo is a free virtualization monitoring and reporting tool for virtual environments. It provides single pane of glass visibility into VM and infrastructure health. | Monitoring | VMTurbo | Download |
| Virtualization Performance Viewer | Quickly and efficiently monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize virtualized and cloud environments. This easy-to-use virtualization management software gives you comprehensive visibility, insights, and control. |
Monitoring | HP | Download |
| IgniteFreeVM | IgnitefreeVM pinpoints the root cause of database performance issues in the query, virtual server, or physical host. IgniteFreeVM lets DBAs see the server and VMware admins see how the database interacts with VMware. | Monitoring | Confio | Download |
| Xangati for ESX | A line of virtual appliances providing real-time, continuous visibility into the otherwise invisible activity of a VMware ESX/ESXi host, its virtual machines (VMs) and the infrastructure resources they use. | Monitoring | Xangati | Download |
| vSphere Mini Monitor | Provides a simple extension of the vSphere Web SDK to allow for real-time alerting of important user-based events on your vCenter server. | Monitoring | Nick Weaver | Download |
| VM Monitor | An easy-to-use desktop tool that continuously monitors a VMware® ESX Server and its virtual machines. | Monitoring | SolarWinds | Download |
| Veeam ONE Free Edition | Veeam ONE Free Edition lets you see how 24x7 real-time monitoring, resource optimization, management reporting and more can improve the performance and availability of your virtual environment. | Monitoring | Veeam | Download |
| VM Health Monitor | Monitors important parameters of VMWare ESX and VMWare ESXi servers. The tool fetches comprehensive data about the servers and presents them as visually elegant graphs and reports. | Monitoring | ManageEngine | Download |
| vAlarm | A Windows based application, created by Xtravirt, which monitors alarms generated by VMware® vCenter which supports vCenter 2.5 & 4.0. | Monitoring | Xtravirt | Download |
| Loadstorm | A cool tool which will load a multithreaded CPU load and will generate memory load. | Performance | Andrew Mitchell | Download |
| HeavyLoad | Heavyload is intended to stress all resources of a PC (the CPU, RAM, hard disk, operating system, etc.) in order to test reliability under a heavy load. | Performance | Jam Software | Download |
| I/O Analyzer | I/O Analyzer is a virtual appliance solution by VMware that provides a simple and standardized way of measuring storage performance in a VMware vSphere virtualized environments. I/O Analyzer automates the traditional storage performance analysis cycle and reduces the performance diagnosis time from days to hours. | Performance | VMware Labs | Download |
| IOBlazer | A multi-platform storage stack micro-benchmark. IOBlazer runs on Linux, Windows and OSX and it is capable of generating a highly customizable workload. | Performance | VMware Labs | Download |
| Iometer | An I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. | Performance | Open Source | Download |
| Memory Performance Tester | A Memory Performance Testing utility to outline the speed of different types of memory | Performance | VMware | Download |
| Esxplot | A GUI-based tool that lets you explore the data collected by esxtop in batch mode. | Performance | VMware Labs | Download |
| vOPS Server Explorer | Freeware suite comprised of Environment Explorer, vScope Explorer and award-winning SearchMyVM Explorer to search VMs, assess VM performance and VM health and perform capacity monitoring. | Reporting | vKernel | Download |
| ESX System Analyzer | The ESX System Analyzer is a tool designed to help administrators plan a migration from ESX to ESXi. It analyzes the ESX hosts in your environment and, for each host, collects information on factors that pertain to the migration process. | Reporting | VMware labs | Download |
| vScope Explorer | vScope Explorer is a free tool from VKernel that analyzes and visualizes the entire virtual environment to identify peformance, capacity, and resource efficiency issues in your virtual environment based on analysis from VKernel's Capacity Analytics Engine. | Reporting | vKernel | Download |
| ApplicationVIEW | Monitor and diagnose capacity bottlenecks in 5 user-selected application VMs. | Reporting | vKernel | Download |
| vOptimizer WasteFinder | Quickly locate and reclaim over-allocated VM storage and dramatically reduce unnecessary storage costs. | Reporting | Quest | Download |
| Veeam Business View | Veeam Business View is an add-on that works with other Veeam products to provide business categorization for your VMware vSphere environment. | Reporting | Veeam | Download |
| RVTools | A windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts. | Reporting | Robware | Download |
| VMware SiteSurvey | Produces a report showing hardware compatibility and software configuration compatibility with advanced VMware features such as Fault Tolerance. | Reporting | VMware | Download |
| StorageVIEW | Quickly and easily identify the top 5 host/datastore links with the highest storage I/O latency. | Reporting | vKernel | Download |
| Capacity Modeler | Assess the performance impact of capacity changes to your existing virtualized environment. Make changes with confidence. | Reporting | vKernel | Download |
| CapacityVIEW | Quickly diagnose and be alerted to capacity and performance issues across an environment's storage and server resources. | Reporting | vKernel | Download |
| Veeam Reporter Free Edition | Veeam Reporter Free Edition provides all the core functionality of the full version of Reporter, including full data collection, multi-user support, and Microsoft SQL Server backend. | Reporting | Veeam | Download |
| VMTurbo Performance and Efficiency Reporter | The VMTurbo Performance and Efficieny Reporter is a collection of reports that give insight into performance and efficiency. | Reporting | VMTurbo | Download |
| VMware Change Reporter | Audits all changes and enforces controlled change management processes across your virtual environment. Sends a daily report pointing to every change made to your ESX servers, folders, clusters, resource pools, virtual machines, and their hardware, including previous and current ("before" and "after") configuration values. | Reporting | NetWrix | Download |
| Virtual Machine Sprawl Tracker | Tracks virtual machine usage statistics and automatically report on inactive and unused virtual machines to justify their deactivation and reclaim precious physical resources. | Reporting | NetWrix | Download |
| CPU Identification Utility | Displays CPU features for VMotion compatibility, EVC and indicates 64-bit VMware support. | Reporting | VMware | Download |
| VPT | Provides an inventory of roles and permissions that are available in a given VMware virtual infrastructure setup. | Reporting | VMware Labs | Download |
| PowerActions for vSphere Web Client | PowerActions integrates the vSphere Web Client and PowerCLI to provide complex automation solutions from within the standard vSphere management client. | Scripting | VMware Labs | Download |
| WebCommander | WebCommander was designed as a framework to wrap your PowerShell and PowerCLI scripts into an easy-to-access web service. Now you can hand off the tasks your users need by simply adding a new script and giving them access to WebCommander. | Scripting | VMware Labs | Download |
| vGhetto Script Repository | OpenSource repository for vGhetto Scripts and Perl/TK based vGhetto Client to vSphere | Scripting | William Lam | Download |
| vEcoShell | vEcoShell eliminates the need to create, debug, and manage Windows PowerShell scripts used in the administration of virtual infrastructures. | Scripting | Quest | Download |
| vSphere PowerCLI 4.1.1 | vSphere PowerCLI is a powerful command line tool that lets you automate all aspects of vSphere management, including network, storage, VM, guest OS and more. | Scripting | VMware | Download |
| Onyx | A standalone application that serves as a proxy between the vSphere Client and the vCenter Server. It monitors the network communication between them and translates it into an executable PowerShell code. | Scripting | VMware Labs | Download |
| PowerGUI | A graphical user interface and script editor for Microsoft Windows PowerShell. | Scripting | Open Source | Download |
| VMware Community PowerPack | This PowerPack contains a variety of scripts from Virtu-al.net and now other blogs such as ict-freak.nl and ntpro.nl transformed and enhanced into a useful PowerPack for both VESI and PowerGUI. | Scripting | Various | Download |
| Compliance Checker for vSphere | A robust utility providing detailed compliance checks against the VMware vSphere Hardening Guidelines | Security | VMware | Download |
| Compliance Checker for PCI DSS v.1.2 | A free, downloadable tool that provides a real-time compliance check for multiple Microsoft Windows servers and desktops against PCI DSS v1.2 requirements. | Security | VMware | Download |
| SAN Monitor | Our free SAN Monitor delivers the visibility you need to stay a superhero-sized step ahead of potential performance problems lurking in your storage array. | Storage | SolarWinds | Download |
| Storage Response Time Monitor | Having trouble with storage latency issues? Seeing your response times getting slower and slower? Download SolarWinds Storage Response Time Monitor and start tracking those sluggish VMs. | Storage | SolarWinds | Download |
| I/O Analyzer | VMware I/O Analyzer is an integrated framework designed to measure storage performance in a virtual environment and to help diagnose storage performance concerns. | Storage | VMware Labs | Download |
| IOPS Calculator | IOPS Calculator is a mobile device app designed to allow general purpose modelling of performance and capacity of disk drives and storage arrays. | Storage | Xtravirt | Download |
| UBERAlign | A tool for VMware Virtual Machine alignment and Space Reclamation | Storage | Nick Weaver | Download |
| vDisk Informer | vDisk Informer demonstrates which virtual disks have potentially wasted space on them and which virtual disks are misaligned causing a performance impact. | Storage | Ricky El-Qasem | Download |
| Gnome Partition Editor | GParted is a free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions. | Storage | Open Source | Download |
| SDelete | SDelete is a command line utility that allows you to delete one or more files and/or directories, or to cleanse the free space on a logical disk. It can also Zero free space which is good for virtual disk optimization. | Storage | Microsoft | Download |
| HD Speed | Measures both sustained and burst data transfer rates of your hard disks, cd/dvd-roms, flash cards/sticks, floppys, etc. | Storage | SteelBytes | Download |
| HDD Low Level Format Tool | This freeware Low Level Format utility will erase, Low-Level Format and re-certify a SATA, IDE or SCSI hard disk drive with any size of up to 281 474 976 710 655 bytes. Will work with USB and FIREWIRE external drive enclosures. | Storage | HDDGURU | Download |
| USB Image Tool | USB Image Tool can create images of USB flash drives, that are mounted as USB drives. It allows you to make an exact backup image of your USB Stick. | Storage | Alexander Beug | Download |
| Insight Control Storage Module for vCenter | A plug-in for VMware's vCenter management console which enables the VMware administrator to quickly obtain context-sensitive information about the HP storage in their VMware environment. | Storage | HP | Download |
| View Auditing Portal | View Auditing Portal is a new web portal that serves as an extension to Horizon View Administrator. | VDI | VMware Labs | Download |
| ViewDbChk | The ViewDbChk tool allows administrators to scan for, and fix provisioning errors that can not be addressed using View Administrator. | VDI | VMware Labs | Download |
| VMware View for iPad | VMware View Client for iPad makes it easy to access your Windows virtual desktop from your iPad with the best possible user experience on the Local Area Network (LAN) or across a Wide Area Network (WAN). | VDI | VMware | Download |
| VMware OS Optimization Tool | The VMware OS Optimization Tool helps optimize Windows 7/8/2008/2012 systems for use with VMware Horizon View. The optimization tool includes customizable templates to enable or disable Windows system services and features, per VMware recommendations and best practices, across multiple systems. | VDI | VMware Labs | Download |
| OpenFiler | A network storage operating system, fronted by a web based management user interface. | VSA | Open Source | Download |
| FreeNAS | An embedded open source NAS (Network-Attached Storage) distribution based on FreeBSD | VSA | Open Source | Download |
| Celerra UBER v3.2 | A free EMC based virtual storage appliance. | VSA | Nick Weaver | Download |
| StarWind Free Edition | StarWind Free is an iSCSI Target that converts any Windows server into a SAN. | VSA | StarWind Software | Download |
| SvSAN for VMware | Provides a single shared data store on your existing servers disk or other direct attached storage device. | VSA | StorMagic | Download |
| NSS Virtual Appliance Lite | A pre-built, pre-configured, and ready-to-run software application packaged with an operating system in a virtual machine for the SMB and ROBO. | VSA | FalconStor | Download |
| UBER VNX (NFS) v1 | A free EMC based virtual storage appliance. | VSA | Nick Weaver | Download |
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