Managing Virtual Infrastructure With Free Tools
April 25th, 2009 | 
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David Marshall has written a post on his Virtualization Report Blog on Infoworld.com titled 10 free tools to help with your virtualization environment. While writing this post David asked me for my input on what free tools I use on a regular basis. You may be thinking “great, just another blog post about the same free virtualization ecosystem tools”, but I commend David for sticking with a slightly different approach to this topic.
When I responded I applied the idea of “what free tools I actually use the most on a day to day basis.” Sure, there are a lot of “the same virtualization ecosystem tools” I mentioned earlier in my list, but in reality what I depend on the most and show my clients are utilities designed for physical server environments too. For example, burning ISO files, remote desktop connections, remote access and file transfer, and server operating system status information tools get used just as much as the specific tools developed to administer the virtualization hosts.
David also polled fellow vExperts Stephen Beaver and Jason McCarty as well, so check out the post in full for a great list of tools and links to download them. Marshall is a vExpert himself by the way, and his VMblog.com (one of many he writes for) is an awesome source of virtualization news, press releases, and opinion.
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