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FEATURED: Spiceworks' 100% Free Virtualization Management Tool Listing updated: April 19, 2010

Download 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 a free IT management suite that includes network monitoring, full-featured help desk, troubleshooting tools, software inventory, & 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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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!
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Free RDP/ Citrix and VMware Recording Listing updated: July 8, 2010

Get the free award-winning server monitoring tool from ObserveIT. Record and Replay all 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, VMware, Dameware, VNC and more. 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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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.

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Quest vEcoShell Listing updated: August 30, 2010

Quest vEcoShell eliminates the need to create, debug, and manage Windows PowerShell scripts used in the administration of virtual infrastructures. As a VMware administration tool, vEcoShell also provides a variety of reports and diagrams that help you configure and optimize your infrastructure with ease.

vEcoShell is supported by the Virtualization EcoShell Initiative (VESI), a collaborative online community offering training, support, forums, and other resurces for the thousands of organizations already using this freeware.
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Quest vConverter SC: Server Consolidation Freeware Listing updated: August 30, 2010

Quest vConverter SC freeware significantly reduces the time, cost and effort required to convert physical and virtual machines (VMs) to VMware, Microsoft, or Citrix XenServer. It enables fast, easy, and reliable conversions without disrupting the source physical system during the conversion porcess. vConverter SC is suitable P2V software for all types and sized of server consolidation initiatives whether you need to virtualize a few or thousands of physical servers.
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KS QuickConfig 1.3.0 Listing updated: March 1, 2010

QuickConfig reduces the time needed to deploy and configure VMware ESX 3 servers and eliminates inconsistencies that can arise with manual operations. This Windows GUI utility is based upon similar functionality in the VMware web-based Scripted Installer, but with the additional options of creating post-configuration files and loading and saving configurations for repeated use.
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Virtual SAN 1.0.0 Listing updated: March 1, 2010

Virtual SAN appliance for VMware ESX 3 Server provides the benefits of shared VMFS storage without the cost of a SAN. Utilizing otherwise unused local storage in the ESX server, Virtual SAN facilitates enterprise-level features such as vMotion, DRS and HA. All volume data is synchronously replicated between hosts, providing full failover capability with data integrity in the event of host, disk or appliance failure. The Virtual SAN appliance was designed to be as easy to configure as possible and full documentation is available to assist you with implementing this solution for VMware storage virtualization.
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VMNetBac 1.2.0 Listing updated: March 1, 2010

VMNetBac allows you to backup and restore the network configuration of your virtual machines. Designed for Windows 2000, 2003 and XP virtual machines, VMNetBac is useful as a quick recovery tool when performing intrusive or mass-upgrade type tasks where there may be a risk of losing VM network configurations.
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Patch Download 6.01 Listing updated: March 1, 2010

Patch Downloader simplifies the task of downloading patches for various ESX versions by automating the task.

With Patch Downloader, you just open the app, select the version of ESX from the drop down, and select a file repository (folder, drive map, SMB share, etc.) where you want to download the patches. It lists all of the available ESX patches as well as information about each including description and severity of the problem it corrects and the impact to the VM/Host. The patch grid can be sorted by column so it's easy to bring all the CRITICAL patches to the top, for example. When you click download, it will download all of the VMware ESX patches you select to the repository, but skip any that are already there – simplifying your ESX patch management by keeping your ESX patch repository up to date.
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