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FEATURED: Spiceworks' 100% Free Virtualization Management Tool Listing updated: November 27, 2012

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 6.0 that includes an IT knowledge base, 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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  • Company: Spiceworks
  • URL: www.spiceworks.com
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  • Price: Free
  • Users' Rating: 4.14 [7 votes] - Vote
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Veeam Backup and Replication Free Edition for VMware and Hyper-v Listing updated: December 17, 2012

Cloning, copying or exporting a virtual machine (VM) can be time-consuming and resource intensive. And if you have to power off or pause the VM, it can be disruptive, too.

But with VeeamZIP? you can easily backup a VM for restore on any host. Whether you use VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, or a combination of both, Veeam® Backup? Free Edition fits right into your environment. And however you do regular backups, Veeam Backup Free Edition is the must-have tool for managing your VMs.
  • Company: Veeam
  • URL: www.veeam.com
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  • Users' Rating: 5 [7 votes] - Vote
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ObserveIT Listing updated: August 2, 2012

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.

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  • Company: ObserveIT
  • URL: www.observeit-sys.com
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  • Users' Rating: 5 [6 votes] - Vote
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Altaro Hyper-V Backup ? Freeware Edition Listing updated: January 3, 2013

Altaro Hyper-V Backup is an easy to use, yet powerful backup solution for Microsoft Hyper-V, which takes the guesswork out of backing up VMs and does all the complex Hyper-V backup configuration for the admin. Make hot backups on the fly, take benefit from our ReverseDelta incremental backup technology and easily restore a backed up VM in just 5 clicks.

Don't take our word for it - Download your free copy of Altaro Hyper-V Backup and use the tool for up to 2 VMs for free, forever. No catch, no sales pitch.
  • Company: Altaro Software
  • URL: www.altaro.com
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  • Users' Rating: 5 [3 votes] - Vote
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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!
  • Company: 5nine Software
  • URL: www.5nine.com
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  • Price: 0.00
  • Users' Rating: 5 [3 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.
  • Company: PHD Virtual Technologies
  • URL: www.phdvirtual.com
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  • Price: Free
  • Users' Rating: 5 [1 vote] - 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!
  • Company: SolarWinds, Inc.
  • URL: www.solarwinds.com
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  • Price: Free
  • Users' Rating: 4.67 [3 votes] - Vote
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Veeam ONE Free Edition for VMware and Hyper-V Listing updated: December 17, 2012

Veeam ONE Free Edition is a risk-free way to experience firsthand the many benefits that Veeam ONE brings to virtualization management. With no restrictions on the number of hosts, management servers and Failover Clusters you can monitor and report on, 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.
  • Company: Veeam
  • URL: www.veeam.com
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  • Price: Free
  • Users' Rating: 4 [5 votes] - Vote
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NetWrix VMware Change Reporter Freeware Edition Listing updated: February 15, 2013

NetWrix VMware Change Reporter Freeware Edition is a simple solution that audits all changes and enforces controlled change management processes across your virtual environment. The tool generates daily reports indicating changes made to your ESX servers, folders, clusters, resource pools, virtual machines, and their hardware, including before and after values for modified settings.

NetWrix VMware Change Reporter Freeware Edition also features a free support.
  • Company: NetWrix Corporation
  • URL: www.netwrix.com
  • Contact: Product Enquiry
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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
  • Company: SolarWinds
  • URL: www.solarwinds.com
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