Default Reasoning

Messaging

Microsoft Exchange:

• Exchange Server Profile Analyzer

Networking

Benchmarking:

• Netperf

Clients:

• puTTY

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)

Virtualization

Check & analysis tools:

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

Management:

• PowerGUI & VMware Community PowerPack
• vmClient (by NTpro.nl)
• VMware vSphere CLI
• VMware vSphere PowerCLI
• vSphere Client RDP Plug-in (Xtravirt)

P2V tools:

• VMware Converter Standalone