Backup

• AppAssure
• Nakivo
• Unitrends (Free Edition)
• Veeam Backup (Free Edition)

Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

• VirtualSharp (Free Edition)
• Zerto

Cheat Sheets

• VMware Posters
• VMware vSphere 5 Memory Management and Monitoring diagram

Messaging

Microsoft Exchange

• Exchange Server Profile Analyzer
• Veeam Explorer (For Exchange)

Networking

Benchmarking

• Netperf

Check & Analysis

• Wireshark

Clients

• puTTY
• FileZilla (Free)

Servers

• Solarwinds TFTP/SFTP Server (Free)
• TFTPD32 (Free)

TCP/IP Tools

• BitCricket IP Subnet Calculator

Storage

Benchmarking

• I/O Analyzer (VMware Labs)
• Iometer
• IOBlazer (VMware Labs)
• SQLIO (Microsoft)

Clients

• Veeam FastSCP

Disk Alignment check

• Aligned Vdisk Finder (by Ricky El-Qasem)
• VM Check Alignment (by Guillermo Musumeci)

Disk Alignment fix

• Gparted
• UBERAlign (by Nicholas Weaver)

Virtual SAN/NAS

• FreeNAS (Free)
• NexentaStor (Free)
• StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS
• StorMagic
• Openfiler (Free Edition)

Virtualization

Check & Analysis

• RVTools (by Rob de Veij)
• VMware Compliance Checker (registration required)

Management

• Auto Deploy GUI (VMware Fling)
• Embotics V-Commander
• PowerGUI & VMware Community PowerPack
• vmClient (by NTpro.nl)
• VMware vSphere CLI
• VMware vSphere PowerCLI
• vSphere Client RDP Plug-in (Xtravirt)
• Xangati for vSphere (Free Edition)

Monitoring & Reporting

• Opvizor
• PHD Virtual Monitor
• Quest vFoglight (Free Edition)
• vCenter 5.1 pre-install check (VMware Fling)
• Veeam ONE (Free Edition)
• VMTurbo Operations Manager
• vOPS Server Explorer (Free Edition)

P2V tools

• PlateSpin Migrate
• VMware Converter Standalone