Management
SolarWinds VM Console
VM Console is one of two virtualization management tools from Solarwinds, it is designed to bounce (shutdown and restart) and track virtual machines (VM) from the convenience of a real-time, desktop dashboard. In less time than it takes to request VMware(R) vCenter(TM) access or locate login credentials, IT professionals can bring a hung, frozen, or otherwise unresponsive virtual machine back to life.
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Spiceworks Virtualization Management
Spiceworks, is a totally free virtualization management too. capabilities. Design mainly for SMBs running VMware products, Spiceworks 4.6 adds network mapping for networks with Cisco WAPs, the ability to remotely kill processes, default installation of the allegedly popular Intel-sponsored Power Management feature, and integrated product search for CDW from within the application.
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Trilead VM Explorer
Trilead VM Explorer is a management tool that eases management, backup and disaster recovery tasks in your VMware ESX Server environment.
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VMware SiteSurvey
Produces a report showing hardware compatibility and software configuration compatibility with advanced VMware features such as Fault Tolerance.
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Openfiler
A tool that allows you to get more shared disk in your environment by turning physical servers into network-attached storage servers or turning the local disk on your ESX hosts into shared disk when using the appliance.
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VMDK to VHD Converter
The VMDK to VHD Converter is a simple utility to convert virtual hard drive images from VMWare's VMDK format into the Microsoft's VHD format.
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VMware Converter
VMware converter is a tool that converts virtual and physical manchines to VMware VMs; it also converts Microsoft VMs.
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WinSCP
This is a great tool if you want to copy/FTP VMs between host in an VMware environment.
vLogView
vLogView is a Windows® based application which manages VMware® ESX Server log files, designed to be installed on an administrators PC, and provides the ability to store, view and search ESX Server log files from multiple ESX Servers. All of this can be done without requiring individual login, navigation and manual file transfer.
The software requires the ability to communicate with a VMware vCenter server and supports VMware vCenter 2.5 & 4.0, and VMware ESX Server 3.x and 4.x.

