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Monitoring, Management, & Performance

EDITORS' PICK: SolarWinds Virtualization Manager Listing updated: March 27, 2012

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager takes you from the early stages of virtualization deployment and all the way to implementation of private cloud initiatives and IT-as-a-Service. Our unified approach to VMware® capacity planning, VM sprawl control, performance monitoring, configuration management, and chargeback automation makes it easy to take control of your virtualized environment—regardless of whether you manage as few as fifty virtual machines or a corporate cloud the size of a small planet.

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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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SolarWinds Storage Manager Listing updated: November 2, 2011

SolarWinds Storage Manager helps you keep a sharp eye on the performance and capacity of your end-to-end physical and virtual storage infrastructure—from VM to spindle. With Storage Manager at your side, you can quickly and easily monitor storage performance, isolate hotspot, automate storage capacity planning, map VMs to physical storage, analyze storage usage and reclaim storage space, manage fibre channel switches and gain visibility into your multi-vendor SAN fabric, and more.
  • Users' Rating: 5 [3 votes] - Vote
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eG VM Monitor Listing updated: April 4, 2011

The eG VM Monitor offers an outside view of how the VMs are using a physical server, and an inside view of what is happening inside a VM, using In-N-Out monitoring technology. This technology offers insights into the cause of performance problems in a virtual infrastructure.

A single agent for monitoring the ESX server and all its VMs. The agent license is independent of the number of VMs on an ESX server or the hardware capabilities of the server (i.e., number of processors, sockets, etc.). Support for agent-based and agentless monitoring of VMware infrastructures. And more...

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  • Users' Rating: 4.7 [27 votes] - Vote
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VMLogix LabManager 3.8 Listing updated: February 23, 2010

VMLogix LabManager 3.8 integrates with the world’s leading virtualization platforms to empower software development and test, support and help desk services, training and education, and sales demonstrations teams so they can build, snapshot, share and deploy production-like environments on-demand. Using advanced automation capabilities, advanced team management and seamless integrations with leading build and test management solutions from HP and IBM, companies can dramatically reduce the manual effort, time and IT resources required to develop, maintain and support higher quality software applications. With VMLogix LabManager, organizations also can avoid being locked into a single virtualization platform and manage multiple virtualization platforms from companies like Citrix, Microsoft and VMware through a single console.
  • Users' Rating: 4.33 [6 votes] - Vote
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Spiceworks' IT Network Management Software Listing updated: January 20, 2011

Download Spiceworks' completely free IT network management software for SysAdmins and Network Administrators in small to medium businesses to manage their networks. *This is NOT a free trial, "freemium", or stripped down verision.* Spiceworks provides access to the entire software suite whether you're a one-person operation or you manage 1,000 network devices. And it's free forever - including live support and all product upgrades! In addition to a state-of-the-art network monitoring and management solution, Spiceworks software also offers free access to: a full-featured help desk, troubleshooting tools, asset management software, power management tools, and an online community of IT pros like you to answer questions, share tips, and solve IT problems. Download today - and share with your peers!

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  • Users' Rating: 4 [6 votes] - Vote
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NetWrix Change Reporter for VMware Listing updated: November 25, 2009

NetWrix Change Reporter for VMware audits all changes and enforces controlled change management processes across your virtual environment. This freeware tool 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.

NetWrix Change Reporter for VMware can be used to get an overview of configuration changes on a daily basis and to improve internal IT governance, prepare reports for your IT compliance auditors (such as SOX, HIPPA, GLBA and more) and finally to audit the creation of new virtual machines to prevent uncontrolled virtual machine sprawl. The commercial version with advanced functionality and technical support is available.
  • Users' Rating: 3.67 [3 votes] - Vote
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AppManager Suite Listing updated: January 19, 2011

NetIQ AppManager delivers the productivity and visibility enterprises demand of their systems management solutions while providing the critical foundation needed for safely adopting and exploiting next-generation technologies, such as: VMware ESX Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange Server 2007, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Oracle Grid Computing, and Cisco or Nortel IP Telephony (VoIP) solutions.

The NetIQ AppManager Suite delivers systems management, including monitoring, reporting & analysis, diagnostics and resolution. It is designed to manage a variety of components – from physical hardware to server applications to end-user response time.

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  • Users' Rating: 3.5 [4 votes] - Vote
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XTS Introspect Listing updated: March 16, 2009

XTS Introspect is an affordable, turnkey data warehouse reporting solution that enables advanced analysis to help you better plan, manage and audit your Citrix farm (XenApp, Presentation Server or MetaFrame XP).

Standard Edition: Perfect for documenting and analyzing configurations and farm policies. Enterprise Edition: Advanced configuration reporting including property matrix reports for easy visualization of server, application and user configurations. Includes report automation, integration with Active Directory and useful “diff” reports to quickly see where configurations have changed over time or after migration projects. Platinum Edition: In addition to the powerful configuration reporting available in Enterprise Edition, this Edition provides historical usage reporting that helps you identify trends, improve capacity planning, and eliminate unnecessary capital outlays for hardware and software licenses.

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  • Users' Rating: 3.25 [16 votes] - Vote
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Quest vFoglight Listing updated: March 27, 2012

Quest vFoglight offers unnmatched visibility to resolve VMware performance issues and drastically reduce costs. It is also the only solution on the market that provides virtual infrastructure VMware monitoring, capacity planning, chargeback, and service management through a single product.
Provides ease of use, scalability and flexibility to support all types of organizations; Delivers detailed architectural representations and out-of-the-box alerts with expert advice for reducing mean-time-to-resolution by at least 75% & Supports VMware vSphere and extends VMware vCenter Server (designated as "VMware Ready Optimized").

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  • Users' Rating: 3 [2 votes] - Vote
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