Backup
- Acronis vmProtect (Free Trial)
- Altaro VM Backup (Free NFR License, 30 day trial can be found here)
- AppAssure
- Nakivo
- PHD Virtual Backup & Replication (Free Trial)
- Trilead (Free Download)
- Unitrends (Free Edition)
- Veeam Backup (Free Edition)
- Vembu (Free Edition)
BC/DR
Cheat Sheets
Management
Clients
- Remote Desktop Manager (Free Trial)
Messaging
Microsoft Exchange
- Veeam Explorer (For Exchange)
Networking
Benchmarking
- Netperf
Check & Analysis
Clients
- SSH Autoconnect vCenter Plug-in (by Ammesiah)
- puTTY
- FileZilla (Free)
Servers
- Solarwinds TFTP/SFTP Server (Free)
- TFTPD32 (Free)
TCP/IP Tools
Storage
Benchmarking
- I/O Analyzer (VMware Labs)
- Iometer
- IOBlazer (VMware Labs)
- SQLIO (Microsoft)
Clients
Disk Alignment check
- Aligned Vdisk Finder (by Ricky El-Qasem)
Disk Alignment fix
- UBERAlign (by Nicholas Weaver)
Virtual SAN/NAS
- FreeNAS (Free)
- NexentaStor (Free)
- StarWind iSCSI SAN & NAS
- StorMagic
- Openfiler (Free Edition)
Visio Stencils
- VMturbo (Free datacenter stencils for Microsoft Visio as well as for OmniGraffle)
Virtualization
Check & Analysis
- esxplot (VMware Fling)
- RVTools (by Rob de Veij)
- VMware Compliance Checker (registration required)
- VM Resource and Availability Service (VMware Fling)
Deployment
- Auto Deploy GUI (VMware Fling)
- ESXi-Customizer (by Andreas Peetz)
Management
- Auto Deploy GUI (VMware Fling)
- Embotics V-Commander
- ESXi Embedded Host Client (VMware Fling)
- PowerGUI & VMware Community PowerPack
- vmClient (by NTpro.nl)
- VMTurbo – Operations Manager (30 day trial)
- VMware vSphere CLI
- VMware vSphere PowerCLI
- Xangati for vSphere
Monitoring & Reporting
- Opvizor
- Quest vFoglight (Free Edition)
- vCenter 5.1 pre-install check (VMware Fling)
- Veeam ONE (Free Edition)
- VisualEsxtop (VMware Fling)
- VMTurbo – Virtual Health Monitor
- VMTurbo – Excel Templates for IT budgeting (free)
- vSphere Mini Monitor (by Nicholas Weaver)
- vOPS Server Explorer (Free Edition)
P2V / V2V Tools
- 5nine Easy Converter (Free Edition)
- BatchV2V (VMware Fling)
- PlateSpin Migrate
- vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance Converter (VMware Fling)
- VMware Converter Standalone