There are a lot of great tools out there which are incredibly helpful – and unbelievable but true – free of cost!
This page is designed to provide an overview of the best free virtualization tools. If you feel that there is a great one missing do not hesitate to leave a comment or drop me an email. I will continuously updating this page.
The tools are not in any order – neither alphabetically nor thematic:
VEEAM Software![Veeam](https://www.running-system.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/veeam-logo.png)
Veeam offers great software products for virtual environments – and many of them are free of cost! Here is a list of some of them:
- Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition (for Hyper-V and VMware)
- Veeam Agent for Windows
- Veeam Agent for Linux
- Veeam Powered Network for simple and secure VPN networking (read more about VeeamPN in this blog post)
- Veeam Backup for Office 365 Community Edition
- Veeam ONE Free Edition for Hyper-V and VMware
Virtual Health Monitor | VMTurbo![vmturbo](https://www.running-system.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/vmturbo.jpg)
Virtual Health Monitor is a free and unlimited virtualization monitoring and reporting tool. The software is distributed as a virtual appliance and works completely agent-less.
Downloadlink: VMTurbo Virtal Health Monitor
RVTools 3.10![rvtools](https://www.running-system.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/rvtools.jpg)
The tool connects to your vCenter server and captures all kinds of information about the virtual infrastructure.
The collected data is presented to you in an excel style spreadsheet: neatly lined up into columns and tabs – everything is easy to find and ready to analyse.
Read more about the tool in this blog post: RVTools 3.7 are available
Downloadlink: RVTools latest version
I’m a big fan of Remote Desktop Manager by Devolutions. They offer a free tool as well as an Enterprise version.
Here’s a URL listing the features of both versions… You get a lot with the free version!
http://remotedesktopmanager.com/Home/FeaturesGrid