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FEATURED: Spiceworks' 100% Free Virtualization Management Tool Listing updated: January 20, 2011

Download a completely free virtualization management tool to track virtual servers running on your network. *This is NOT a free trial, "freemium", or stripped down verision.* Spiceworks’ virtualization management accurately finds and categorizes virtual server data to find hardware & VM hypervisors on hosts and view all VMware virtual machines. Part of the brand new Spiceworks 5.0 that includes network monitoring, multi-site help desk, troubleshooting tools, TFTP server, SNMP monitoring, active directory management, & more. Spiceworks is free now and will always be free, including support and frequent product upgrades. Download today - and share with your peers!

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  • Users' Rating: 4.14 [7 votes] - Vote
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Altaro Hyper-V Backup – Freeware Edition Listing updated: March 20, 2012

A Hyper-V aware backup solution that backs up Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Machines. Altaro Hyper-V Backup backs up Hyper-V Virtual Machines in a live state but leveraging the Microsoft VSS Hyper-V Writer. It also includes the ReverseDelta block-level backup technology, many restore options (such as restore VM as clone), backs up VMs on a CSV Cluster, supports Windows 2008 R2 core install and more.

Altaro Hyper-V Backup is so easy to use that you can start backing up your first VMs within 12 minutes from install.
  • Users' Rating: 5 [1 vote] - Vote
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Free RDP/ Citrix and VMware Recording Listing updated: November 18, 2010

Get the free, award-winning server monitoring tool from ObserveIT. Record and Replay all remote user sessions on your network servers.

Any remote access or console session is searchable and ready for playback! Protocol-agnostic: ObserveIT records Terminal Server, Citrix, Remote Desktop, SSH, VMware and more.

ObserveIT makes easy work out of security audits by generating video and text logs for everything that happens on your servers. (Even for apps that don’t have their own internal logs!)

You’ll be up and running in minutes, and will understand why the world’s leading banks, manufacturers, telco and healthcare companies rely on ObserveIT to generate secure compliance audits, to monitor 3rd-party vendors and to improve system uptime.

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  • Users' Rating: 5 [6 votes] - Vote
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Free VM Monitor Listing updated: April 28, 2010

Download this FREE Desktop Tool - VM Monitor – from SolarWinds and continuously Monitor your Vmware ESX Server and its virtual machines right from your desktop! Get the real-time monitoring you’ve been missing. VM Monitor shows you ESX Server CPU, RAM, and Network RX/TX utilization, number of VM Guests running on that server, VM Guest performance including CPU, RAM, and Network RX/TX utilization. See why more than one million network engineers use SolarWinds free tools to perform their daily network monitoring and management tasks. Download this FREE TOOL from Solarwinds!
  • Users' Rating: 5 [2 votes] - Vote
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SnapHunter 0.5.3 Listing updated: March 1, 2010

SnapHunter is an ESX 3 Service Console utility which reports back on the VMware VM Snapshot status from multiple ESX Servers.

Features include: Identifying virtual machines containing snapshots; showing size, date and name of snapshot, Optionally committing snapshots and Email reporting and scheduling.

  • Users' Rating: 5 [1 vote] - Vote
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FREE VM Monitor for Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V Listing updated: March 29, 2012

SolarWinds Free VM Monitor for Hyper-V is an easy-to-use desktop tool that continuously monitors a Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V host and associated virtual machines. Monitor CPU, memory utilization, and number of machines configured and running for a Hyper-V host.

You can also view detailed VM health statistics including VM name, guest OS and VM state, as well as processor, memory, and network usage. Within minutes of downloading you can start monitoring using out-of-the-box settings. Get the real-time monitoring you’ve been missing. Download this FREE TOOL from SolarWinds

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Storage Response Time Monitor Listing updated: January 20, 2012

Storage Response Time Monitor makes keeping track of your storage response times and latency issues easier than ever! Now you can get at-a-glance insight into the host to datastore connections with the worst response times and the busiest VMs using those connections. See a breakdown of the datastore including type and device versus kernel latency.
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VM-to-Cloud Calculator Listing updated: January 20, 2012

VM-to-Cloud Calculator quickly discovers all of your virtual machines and estimates what it would cost to move them to the cloud. Get estimates for Amazon EC2™, Windows® Azure™, and Rackspace Cloud Servers™.
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SNMP Enabler for Windows Listing updated: March 22, 2011

This cool tool gives you the ability to remotely install and enable SNMP on any windows server or workstation on your network. Save time when deploying applications requiring SNMP. Download SolarWinds latest free tool and simultaneously enable SNMP on multiple machines.
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5nine P2V Hyper-V and VMWare Planner ( Free Edition ) Listing updated: March 11, 2011

5nine P2V Planner allows to create and compare Microsoft Hyper-V, Azure and VMware P2V Migration plans and templates from technology and TCO/ROI standpoint, thus providing an ability to make a right choice of Virtualization technology to use for your data center consolidation and applications virtualization. 5nine Team will assist you with all of your Azure and/or Server Consolidation and VDI Capacity Planning and Deployment tasks!
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