Free VM Tools from VKernel
New Free VMware Tool: vScope Explorer
vScope Explorer is the new free tool from VKernel that visualizes the entire virtual environment across:
- Resources - CPU, memory, storage, network
- Datacenters, clusters, host, virtual machines
...to identify peformance, capacity, and resource efficiency issues in your virtual environment based on analysis from VKernel's Capacity Analytics Engine™.
Just hover over the offending red square representing an afflicted virtual object. You will then learn the VM, host, or datastore's name and a description of the problem.
Google-Like Search of VMs with SearchMyVM
SearchMyVM is a 'Google-like' search tool for your VMware environment. Delivered as a virtual appliance, it instantly connects to vCenter and indexes your virtual machines, hosts, clusters, storage, resource pools, files, snapshots, VMware tools, applications, log entries, and configuration information.
Rated a "Top 10 Free VMware vSphere Tool of 2011"
by Kendrick Coleman at VMworld Las Vegas.
Other Helpful Free Tools
ApplicationVIEW
ApplicationVIEW allows ESX performance monitoring for up to 5 selected VMs with up to a 30-day history.
CapacityVIEW
CapacityVIEW assesses overall VMware performance, listing the number of VMs with performance problems or underutilized resources.
Capacity Modeler
Capacity Modeler allows system administrators to easily predict capacity and ESX performance issues from proposed hardware, maintenance and configuration changes.
Choose One, Choose them All
Our free VMware tools have evolved as we witnessed specific VMware performance monitoring issues that vSphere was not handling effectively. The result is currently four tools in a growing family. Download one, download all of them - your choice. With a completed assessment, you can then investigate installing a trial version of the products in our vOperations Suite.
