Power Actions

Power Actions is a plug-in to the default vSphere client to allow PowerCLI scripts.

https://flings.vmware.com/power-actions

vSphere Alert Center

vSphere Alert Center is an utility to send notifications from vCenter.

https://flings.vmware.com/vsphere-alert-center

vSphere Diagnostic Tool

vSphere Diagnostic Tool is a python script that runs diagnostic commands on the vCenter Server Photon Appliance to return useful troubleshooting data.

https://flings.vmware.com/vsphere-diagnostic-tool

https://4sysops.com/archives/troubleshoot-vmware-using-vsphere-diagnostic-tool/

vSphere Alert Center

The vSphere Alert Center is a fling that displays alarm notifications without the use of the normal vSphere client.

https://flings.vmware.com/vsphere-alert-center

https://4sysops.com/archives/vsphere-alert-center-get-alerts-from-multiple-vcenter-servers-with-a-free-tool/

NUMA Observer

NUMA Observer is a VMware fling that scans a VM inventory and identifies VMs with overlapping core/NUMA affinities, and then can generate alerts.

https://flings.vmware.com/numa-observer

Virtual Machine Compute Optimizer (VMCO)

The Virtual Machine Compute Optimizer (VMCO) is a VMware Fling that enables the capture of information about the hosts and VMs running in a vSphere environment. It generates a report on the VMs and states if the VMs are optimized.

https://flings.vmware.com/virtual-machine-compute-optimizer

https://4sysops.com/archives/vmware-virtual-machine-compute-optimizer-free-tool/

VMware Ports and Protocols web site

The web site below offers details on various products from VMware concerning the ports and protocols used.

https://ports.vmware.com/

VMware DRS Entitlement Viewer

VMware DRS Entitlement Viewer is a fling that allows you to get a hierarchical view of vCenter DRS cluster inventory with entitled CPU and memory resources for each resource pool and VM in the cluster.

https://labs.vmware.com/flings/drs-entitlement-viewer

vSphere 6.5 Topology and Upgrade Planning Tool

This tool aims to help customers plan and execute both upgrades to vSphere 6.5 as well as new deployments. With this initial release, the tool is focused on the most common upgrade paths and deployments of vCenter Server 6.5. Updates to the content within the tool are planned to occur over time.

http://vspherecentral.vmware.com/path-finder

https://vspherecentral.vmware.com/

DRS Lens

DRS Lens provides an interface to highlight the value proposition of vSphere DRS.  DRS Lens provides different dashboards in the form of tabs for each cluster being monitored:

• Cluster Balance
• VM Happiness
• vMotions
• Operations

https://labs.vmware.com/flings/drs-lens

VMware Technical Papers web site

The URL below is the main page for the Technical Papers resource on the VMware web site.

http://www.vmware.com/techpapers.html#/?client=tech_paper&num=25&filter=0&site=tech_paper&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&getfields=*&partialfields=(default:default)&requiredfields=&entqr=0&start=0&sort=meta:revisionDate:D&tlen=200&numgm=3&cn=vmware&cc=en&cid=&tid=&stype=main

VMware Tools Client

VMware Tools Client allows you to interact with your vSphere VMs without network connectivity, it executes scripts and transfer files to the vSphere Virtual Machines through VMware Tools.

http://pierrelx.com/vmware-tools-client/

vCenter Cluster Performance Tool

vCenter Cluster Performance Tool is a Powershell script that uses vSphere PowerCLI to obtain performance data for a cluster by aggregating information from individual hosts.

https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vcenter-cluster-performance-tool

Ubuntu OVA for VMware Horizon

Ubuntu OVA for Horizon is a pre-packaged OVA built on Ubuntu that automates most of the customization and configuration needed for a Linux Desktop Template to be used in a VMware Horizon 7 or later environment.

https://labs.vmware.com/flings/horizon-ova-for-ubuntu

VMware IOInsight Fling

VMware IOInsight is a tool to help people understand a VM's storage I/O behavior. By understanding their VM's I/O characteristics, customers can make better decisions at storage capacity planning and performance tuning. IOInsight ships as a virtual appliance that can be deployed in any vSphere environment and an intuitive web-based UI allows users to choose VMDKs to monitor and view results.

https://labs.vmware.com/flings/ioinsight

https://www.vladan.fr/how-to-use-vmware-ioinsight-free-io-testing-tool/

DRS Doctor

DRS Doctor is a command line tool that can be used to diagnose DRS behavior in VMware vCenter clusters. When run against a DRS enabled cluster, it records information regarding the state of the cluster, the work load distribution, DRS moves, etc., in an easy to read log format.

https://labs.vmware.com/flings/drsdoctor

VMware NSX Visio Diagramming Tool

The NSX Visio Diagramming Tool is an utility to create documentation within an NSX environment.

https://github.com/vmware/powernsx/tree/master/tools/DiagramNSX

http://networkinferno.net/nsx-visio-diagramming-tool

PowerActions

PowerActions integrates the vSphere Web Client and PowerCLI to provide complex automation solutions from within the standard vSphere management client.  PowerActions is deployed as a plugin for the vSphere Web Client and will allow you to execute PowerCLI commands and scripts in a vSphere Web Client integrated Powershell console.

https://labs.vmware.com/flings/poweractions-for-vsphere-web-client

Extrasphere

Extrasphere is a set of tools for managing VM data in vSphere environments, including VM migration, hot mirroring and encryption scenarios.

http://www.extrasphere.ru/

VMware Logon Monitor

VMware Logon Monitor monitors Windows user logons and reports a wide variety of performance metrics intended to help administrators, support staff, and developers troubleshoot slow logon performance. Metrics include, but are not limited to, logon time, CPU/memory usage, and network connection speed. VMware Logon Monitor also receives metrics from other VMware products which provide even more clues about what is happening during the logon flow.

https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vmware-logon-monitor