How to manage VMware vSphere for free

By on September 1, 2010 in Ask the Service Assurance Expert

VMworld 2010 session offers insight into myriad tools that can help IT managers track performance, storage and more in virtual environments – without spending budget dollars.

VMworld 2010 in San Francisco is flush with sessions on technologies to manage, secure and optimize VMware environments. Yet one session educated conference attendees on tools that could help them do all this – at no cost.

David Davis, vExpert, VCP, CCIE and video training author at TrainSignal and Kendrick Coleman, vExpert and blogger, teamed up to present a list of several free IT tools for vSphere management. The joint presentation offered insight into more than 10 tools and each speaker offered their take on why the free application helped monitor performance, migrations or storage, for instance. The endorsements by Davis and Coleman should cause many IT managers to at least check out the no-cost technology.

Here in no particular order are 10 of the many free tools mentioned during the presentation.

Also for more information on vSphere management and additional detail on free tools, check out Davis’ blog here and catch up with Coleman’s posts here.

What free tools do you depend on to manage your virtual environment? Are there downsides to using no-cost applications? Please leave a comment here or let me know directly via e-mail at Denise.Dubie@ca.com.

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Service Assurance Daily is managed by Denise Dubie, former senior editor of Network World. Denise's official title at CA is New Media Principal. Prior to coming to CA, Dubie spent 12 years of her career at Network World, an IDG company. Working as Copy Chief in the copy editing department for two years, Dubie made an internal move at Network World in 2000 to report and write about IT management technologies (from CA and competitors) as well as high-tech careers and vendors such as Cisco, HP, IBM and Microsoft. As Senior Editor at Network World, Dubie also authored the publication's twice-weekly Network and Systems Management Alert newsletter and contributed to the Web site's Microsoft Subnet blog. Before IDG, she served as Assistant Managing Editor at Application Development Trends, managing writers and the monthly publication's production process. And Dubie started her professional journalism career as a Staff Writer and Reporter at The Transcript, a small daily paper in Western Massachusetts. Dubie holds a B.A. degree in English Literature, with minors in journalism and political science, from Boston University.
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