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With the release of VMware Workstation 14 Pro, lot of cool new features are added which includes supporting Microsoft’s Fall updates for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, and updated Linux support for Fedora 26 and Ubuntu 17.04, Workstation 14 Pro will deliver enhanced security with support for Virtualization Based Security (VBS) features of Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows Server 2016 Guests, improved Virtual Networking, and added new support and controls for working with vSphere and the vCenter Server Appliance. Native OVF deployment feature of VMware Workstation 14 allows the administrators to run vCenter Server appliance in the lab environment directly on top of VMware Workstation 14 by eliminating the need of running dedicated ESXi host for vCSA deployment. In the earlier version of VMware Workstation, We will not be able to deploy vCenter Server appliance in VMware Workstation by specifying OVF deployment properties. We need to manually edit the VMX file to supply OVF properties in an earlier version of VMware Workstation. In this article, I will explain the detailed procedure to deploy vCenter Server appliance 6.5 on VMware Workstation 14.
With improved OVF/OVA support, Workstation 14 Pro provides an effortless walkthrough to deploy the VMware VCSA (vCenter Server Appliance) OVA package for testing and experimentation within Workstation. VCSA 6.0 and VCSA 6.5 are supported. Let’s take a look at the detailed step by step procedure to deploy vCenter Server appliance 6.5 on VMware Workstation 14.
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Deploy vCenter Server appliance 6.5 on VMware Workstation 14
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Download VMWare vCenter appliance 6.5 and place it on the windows machine where VMWare Workstation 14 is installed. UnZip or Open the ISO files using Softwares like 7Zip. Navigate to the uncompressed folder and go to the “vcsa” folder where you’ll find the OVA file.
Right-click the “vCenter Server Appliance 6.5” and Select Open with VMware Workstation
It launches the wizard to start to deploy vCenter Server appliance 6.5 on VMware Workstation 14. Accept the end user license agreement and click Next.
Specify the virtual machine name and storage path for the vCenter Center appliance virtual machine. Click Next.
Below wizard provides the various deployment options to deploy vCenter server appliance 6.5 on VMware Workstation 14. You can choose any of the deployment options as per your choice. When you choose any deployment option, It provides the description of deployment option along with virtual machine configuration information. Click on Next.
It will display the various additional properties to deploy vCenter Server appliance on VMware Workstation 14. Specify the networking properties to configure IP address assignment to the VCSA 6.5 appliance.
These properties may need some time to take effect after the vCenter server first power on, So please wait and do not power of the virtual machine. I noticed no IP assignments as per my configured OVF properties during first power on. Later sometime, I noticed IP and other properties are configured.
Click on SSO Configuration to configure SSO directory password.
Click on System Configuration to specify the root password for the vCenter server appliance login.
Specify the Miscellaneous settings such as CEIP.
Click on Networking properties to configure domain name and domain search path for the vCenter server appliance deployment. Click Import to start the vCenter Server appliance OVF import on VMWare Workstation.
It will take few minutes to complete the import based on the location of the OVF file.
Once the import is complete, we can notice the vCenter server appliance boot process in the console.
In few minutes after first power on, I noticed my vCenter Server appliance 6.5 is configured with IP settings and hostname settings as per my OVF properties specified during my deployment in VMWare Workstation 14.
That’s it. We are don with deploying vCenter server appliance 6.5 on VMware Workstation 14. I hope this is informative for you. Thanks for Reading!!!. Be social and share it with social media, if you feel worth sharing it.
If you’re used to working with VMware products, you probably found yourself needing one or more tools to help you complete a specific task. Whether it’s a PowerCLI script to bolster your automation platform, a monitoring and analytical tool for renewed insight or perhaps SAN emulation software for shared storage datastores, surely, you will find something that suits your needs in the following list of 101 free VMware tools we put together.
You can download most of the tools and utilities straight away by clicking the product name or download link. In some cases, you’ll need to fill in a registration form and reply to an activation link before downloading.
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| Product Name | Category | Description | Screenshot |
| 1 | Altaro VM Backup | Backup | Warning: Cheeky plug alert 😉 Altaro VM Backup is a fast, affordable, high-performance backup solution, specifically developed for small and mid-market businesses. We’ve cut the waste and hassle to give you an agile, streamlined solution that is easy to implement, feature-rich, with outstanding support as part of the package. |
| 2 | Account Lockout Examiner | Monitoring | A tool that notifies administrators about AD account lockouts and helps determine the root cause whenever an Active Directory account keeps locking out. Works also on mobile devices. |
| 3 | Auditor for Active Directory | Reporting | Provides visibility into what’s happening inside an AD domain by tracking logons and all changes to AD users, groups, organizational units, GPO links and various policies. |
| 4 | Auditor for VMware | Reporting | Tracks configuration changes in a vSphere environment which include changes to datacentre instances, vCenter Server, ESXi, resource pools, clusters, folders, VMs, and other objects. |
| 5 | Auditor for Windows File Servers | Reporting | This free file server software tracks changes made to files, folders, shares and permissions. It also detects deleted and newly created files and folders and logs file server access attempts. |
| 6 | Auto Deploy GUI | Automation | Auto Deploy GUI is a vSphere plug-in for the VMware vSphere Auto Deploy component. The GUI plug-in allows a user to easily manage the setup and deployment requirements in a stateless environment managed by Auto Deploy. |
| 7 | AutoConf iSCSI | Automation | AutoConf iSCSI creates the iSCSI configuration following best practices for ESXi 4, 5 and 6. |
| 8 | Backup Calculator | Calculator | Backup Capacity Calculator evaluates required storage capacity for backups. |
| 9 | Brocade SAN Health Diagnostics | Analytics | SAN Health Diagnostics Capture is a utility that securely audits and analyses your SAN environment. |
| 10 | Business Continuity Planning | Analytics | A free online service tool that helps you build and customize your own DR plan so you can con?dently respond to a disaster or outage and recover your systems rapidly, effectively and efficiently. |
| 11 | Certificate Manager for vCSA 5.5 | Management | A graphical user interface (GUI) application used to replace digital certificates on vCenter Server Appliance. |
| 12 | CI Manager Plus | Networking | A simple tool to manage Cisco UCS devices. |
| 13 | Cloud Cost Calculator | Calculator | Provides you with real-time decisions trading off public cloud performance and cost. |
| 14 | Damn Small Linux | Virtual Machines | A great lightweight Linux distro ideal for deploying in low-performance environments. |
| 15 | Recovery Time Actual (RTA) Calculator | Calculator | Helps you automate a disaster recovery test and immediately delivers a report telling you how long it would take to recover your VMware environment. |
| 16 | Disk Space Monitor | Monitoring | This freeware tool will automatically monitor for low disk space on multiple servers keeping you abreast of which servers are getting close to low disk space conditions. |
| 17 | Effective Permissions Reporting | Reporting | Helps you ensure that users’ permissions align with their roles in the organization. This freeware tool delivers a file share and Active Directory permissions report that details who has access to what and how that access was gained. |
| 18 | ESXi Embedded Host Client | Management | The ESXi Embedded Host Client is a native HTML and JavaScript application and is served directly from your ESXi host. |
| 19 | Extrasphere 3.0.9 | Utility | A set of tools that will help you manage VM data in vSphere environments, including VM migration, proxy VMFS and hot mirroring. |
| 20 | FileZilla | Utility | FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface. |
| 21 | IP SLA Monitor | Networking | SolarWinds IP SLA Monitor allows IT administrators to continuously monitor internet protocol (IP) service levels for IP applications and services. |
| 22 | FreeNAS | Storage | FreeNAS is an operating system that can be installed on virtually any hardware platform to share data over a network. |
| 23 | ghettoVCB | Backup | The ghettoVCB script performs backups of virtual machines residing on ESX(i) 3.x, 4.x, 5.x & 6.x servers using methodology like VMware’s VCB tool. The script takes snapshots of live running virtual machines, backs up the master VMDK(s) and then upon completion, deletes the snapshot until the next backup. |
| 24 | HCIBench | Analytics | An automation wrapper around the popular and proven VDbench open source benchmark tool that makes it easier to automate testing across a HCI cluster. The tool fully automates the end-to-end process of deploying test VMs, coordinating workload runs, aggregating test results, and collecting necessary data for troubleshooting purposes. |
| 25 | HeavyLoad | Utility | HeavyLoad is a stress testing utility designed to test computer performance under heavy loads. |
| 26 | Icinga 2 | Monitoring | An open source monitoring system which checks the availability of your network resources, notifies users of outages, and generates performance data for reporting. Scalable and extensible, Icinga 2 can monitor large, complex environments across multiple locations.is intuitive to write, efficient to execute and even adjusts to the changing conditions of your environment at run-time. |
| 27 | Online IP Subnet Calculator | Networking | The IP Subnet Mask Calculator enables subnet network calculations using network class, IP address, subnet mask, subnet bits, mask bits, maximum required IP subnets and maximum required hosts per subnet. |
| 28 | Kali Linux | Virtual Machines | VMware ready images of the most popular network penetration and security tool laden Linux distro. |
| 29 | Kiwi Syslog Server Free Edition | Monitoring | Collect, view and archive logs from up to five different routers, firewalls, machines or other devices that emit Syslog messages or SNMP traps. |
| 30 | LPAR2RRD | Monitoring | The tool offers you end-to-end views of IBM and VMware virtualization platforms and can save you significant money in operation monitoring. |
| 31 | MAC / WWN Lookup | Networking | Ethernet MAC Address Lookup / Fibre Channel WWN, WWPN, WWNN Lookup / Vendor Lookup. |
| 32 | Nagios Core | Monitoring | Provides monitoring of all mission-critical infrastructure components including applications, services, operating systems, network protocols, systems metrics, and network infrastructure. Hundreds of third-party add-ons provide for monitoring of virtually all in-house applications, services, and systems. |
| 33 | Network Defender Plus | Monitoring | Network Defender Plus is flow-based network behaviour anomaly detection (NBAD) software that analyses the packet flows to detect malicious traffic hitting the network. Exported flow data is collected & analysed to identify intrusions or attacks by applying advanced rules and patterns on the malicious traffic. |
| 34 | NexentaStor (Community Edition) | Storage | NexentaStor delivers unified file (NFS and SMB) and block (FC and iSCSI) storage services, runs on industry standard hardware supporting all-flash, hybrid, and all-disk scaling from tens of terabytes to petabyte configurations, and includes all data management functionality by default. |
| 35 | Notepad++ | Editor | Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License. |
| 36 | HPE OneView for VMware vCenter | Reporting | HPE OneView for VMware vCenter is software for VMware’s vCenter management console which enables the vSphere administrator to quickly obtain context-aware information about HPE servers and HPE storage in their VMware vSphere environment directly from within vCenter. |
| 37 | OpenFiler | Storage | Openfiler converts an industry standard x86_64 architecture system into a full-fledged NAS/SAN appliance or IP storage gateway and provides storage administrators with a powerful tool to cope with burgeoning storage needs. |
| 38 | OpManager | Monitoring | An integrated network management software for faster and smarter network management. Out-of-the-box, it offers network monitoring, physical and virtual server monitoring, flow-based bandwidth analysis, firewall log analysis and archiving, configuration and change management, and IP address and switch port management, thereby providing all the visibility and control that you need over your network. |
| 39 | Permissions Analyzer for Active Directory | Active Directory | Unravel your tangled mess of permissions for Active Directory, network shares, folders, and files for users and groups with this free tool. |
| 40 | Port Database Search | Networking | Returns information about network port numbers and associated services. |
| 41 | Port Scanner | Networking | Scan available IP addresses and their corresponding TCP and UDP ports to identify network vulnerabilities. |
| 42 | PowerCLI | Scripting | PowerCLIÂ is a powerful command-line PowerShell interface developed by VMware that lets you automate all aspects of vSphere management, including network, storage, VM, guest OS and more. |
| 43 | PowerShell Plus | Editor | PowerShell Plus is the most advanced Interactive Development Environment for PowerShell available today. Designed to help administrators and developers quickly learn and master Windows PowerShell, it also dramatically increases the productivity of expert users. |
| 44 | PRTG Network Monitor | Monitoring | PRTG Network Monitor is a free syslog server: one sensor type in PRTG is the Syslog Receiver, which receives and analyses syslog messages, stored in a high-performance database. This means that the content of received syslog messages can be checked and an alarm can be triggered depending on the content and severity. |
| 45 | Putty | Utility | PuTTY is a free implementation of SSH and Telnet for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. |
| 46 | RAID Calculator | Calculator | RAID calculator computes storage system characteristics based on the provided RAID level, number of disk drives, and drive capacity. |
| 47 | Real-Time Bandwidth Monitor | Monitoring | Real-time Bandwidth Monitor lets you set critical and warning thresholds to instantly see when usage is out of bounds. |
| 48 | Rsync 3.1.0 | Backup | Rsync is a file transfer program capable of efficient remote update via a fast differencing algorithm. Rsync compiled for ESXi 5.1 and above, allows for extended copy options between local datastores, delta transfers between ESXi hosts and delta transfers between an ESXi host and any other server executing a compatible Rsync version. |
| 49 | Rufus 2.16 | Utility | Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pen drives, memory sticks, etc. |
| 50 | RVTools 3.9.5 | Reporting | RVTools is a Windows .NET 4.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display information about your virtual environments as well as disconnect removable media drives and updates VMware Tools. |
| 51 | Script List | Scripting | A nice list of PowerCLI scripts and one-liners for everyday use. |
| 52 | SDDC Discovery tool | Reporting | The SDDC Discovery Tool gives users a holistic view of their SDDC deployment. By collecting vCenter server credentials from the user, the tool is able to discover all of the products installed in the deployment by recursive probing. |
| 53 | Server Health Monitor | Monitoring | See into the hardware health of your server and get alerted before your applications are affected. |
| 54 | Service Monitor | Monitoring | Netwrix Service Monitor is a free tool to monitor critical Windows services and optionally restart them after failure. |
| 55 | IP Address Tracker | Networking | IP Address Tracker is a free, reduced feature set version of SolarWinds IP Address Manager enabling you to sample the functionality of IPAM. |
| 56 | Solarwinds TFTP Server | Utility | Use this free TFTP Server to upload and download executable images and configurations to routers and switches with ease. |
| 57 | Splunk Light 6.6.3 | Reporting | Speed tactical troubleshooting in small IT environments. Gather real-time log data to enable powerful searches, dynamic dashboards, alerts, and analysis. |
| 58 | StarWind Virtual SAN Free [download] | Storage | A free command-line based Software-Defined Storage stack that eliminates the need for physical shared storage by “mirroring” local disks and flash between its servers to create a fault-tolerant storage pool. |
| 59 | STOR2RRD | Monitoring | SAN and storage performance and capacity monitoring. |
| 60 | The Ultimate Deployment Appliance | Virtual Machines | The UDA is a Linux based virtual appliance – which is a PXE/TFTP/Web-front end system designed to deploy many different operating systems. |
| 61 | Turbonomic Virtual Health Monitor | Monitoring | A free virtualization monitoring and reporting tool for VMware, Hyper-V, RHEV, and XenServer environments. Virtual Health Monitor is a free real-time performance monitoring solution that can be deployed broadly across multiple hypervisor platforms. |
| 62 | UltraSearch 2.12 | Utility | UltraSearch searches folders and files on local NTFS drives. You can target file names or patterns. Works without an index and provides results within seconds. Portable version available. |
| 63 | V2V Converter | Converter | Convert and clone VMs from one format to another. The software supports the most widely used formats: VMDK, VHD/VHDX (Windows Repair Mode aware), StarWind native IMG and QCOW. |
| 64 | vCenter Certificate Automation Tool | Automation | The SSL Certificate Automation Tool is a command-line utility that automates the Self- or CA-signed certificate renewal process. |
| 65 | VMware vCenter Converter Standalone | Converter | Convert virtual and physical machines to VMware virtual machines. You can also configure existing virtual machines in your vCenter Server environment. |
| 66 | vCheck | Scripting | A PowerShell HTML framework script designed to run as a scheduled task. Key information is emailed directly to your inbox in a nice easily readable format. This script picks on the key known issues and potential issues scripted as plugins for various technologies written as PowerShell scripts. |
| 67 | vCSA Database Backup / Restore | Backup | Python scripts that allow you to backup and restore the vPostgres database used by vCenter Server 6.0 and 6.5. |
| 68 | vDisk Informer 1.2.5 [download] | Utility | vDisk Informer is a tool used to check for potentially non-allocated space on virtual disks due to misalignment which in turn may affect performance. |
| 69 | VIB Author | Utility | Build custom VIB packages, such as firewall rules, for ESXi. |
| 70 | Virtualization Calculator | Calculator | Calculates the number of ESXi hosts in a vSphere cluster based on the planned VM workload and host configuration. |
| 71 | Visual Traceroute [download] | Networking | Displays the route a packet takes across a network and provides detailed response time information hop-by-hop from start to finish, continuously, over a specified duration or one-time. |
| 72 | VisualESXTop | Reporting | An enhanced version of resxtop and esxtop, VisualEsxtop can connect to VMware vCenter Server or ESX hosts, and display ESX server stats with a better user interface and more advanced features. |
| 73 | VM Manager Plus | Monitoring | Monitor an unlimited number of VMs, hosts, and data stores across VMware, Hyper-V and XenServer platforms. Proactively monitor critical performance metrics such as CPU, memory, and disk utilization, network usage, memory swap, datastore read/write latency, memory ready, and much more. |
| 74 | VM Monitor | Monitoring | VM Monitor continuously monitors your VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V host and associated virtual machines in real-time. |
| 75 | VMware ESXi 6.5 | Hypervisor | The free edition of VMware’s popular enterprise hypervisor. |
| 76 | VMware Horizon Toolbox 7.2 | Management | VMware Horizon Toolbox 7.2 is a Web portal that acts as an extension to View Administrator in VMware Horizon™ 6 or above. |
| 77 | VMware I/O Analyzer | Analytics | An integrated framework designed to measure storage performance in a virtual environment and to help diagnose storage performance concerns. |
| 78 | VMware OS Optimization Tool | Utility | Helps optimize Windows systems for use with VMware Horizon View. Includes customizable templates to enable or disable Windows system services and features, per VMware recommendations and best practices, across multiple systems. |
| 79 | VMware Remote Console | Utility | Provides console access and client device connection to VMs on a remote host. Download and install before launching the external VMRC application directly from a vSphere or vRealize Automation web client. |
| 80 | VMware Software Manager 1.5 | Downloader | VMware Software Manager is a free product that dramatically simplifies the download of VMware suites and products. |
| 81 | VMware View Client Resizer | Utility | The View Client Resizer is a utility that resizes VMware Horizon Client for Windows desktop to a specific resolution. |
| 82 | VMware Vmmark 3.x | Analytics | A free tool used to measure the performance, scalability, and power consumption of virtualization platforms. |
| 83 | VMware VMSS2Core | Utility | Converts VMware checkpoint state files into formats that third-party debugger tools understand. |
| 84 | VMware vSphere Compatibility Predictor | Analytics | Scans all PSCs connected to a single PSC. It will detect the versions of all the vCenter Servers connected to PSCs and all the Solutions connected to vCenter Servers. It will then depict the connectivity in pictorial form. |
| 85 | VMware vSphere Replication | Backup | A hypervisor-based, asynchronous replication solution for vSphere virtual machines. It fully integrates with VMware vCenter Server and the vSphere Web Client. |
| 86 | VMware Workstation Player 12.5 | Hypervisor | VMware Workstation Player builds on the industry-leading foundation of Workstation Pro, and delivers a streamlined user interface for creating and running operating systems and applications in a virtual machine. |
| 87 | vSphere (Legacy) client | Management | The long-lived vSphere client of choice prior to vSphere 6.5. |
| 88 | vSphere Configuration Backup | Backup | vSphere Configuration Backup is an automation tool used to save configurations of multiple ESXi and SQL databases. |
| 89 | vSphere Content Library Assistance | Analytics | This assistant will help you easily onboard your VC templates (.vmtx) on to Content Library. |
| 90 | vSphere HTML5 Web Client | Management | Although now part and parcel of vSphere 6.5, this client can be installed as a standalone appliance that deployed in an existing or new vSphere 6.0 environment. |
| 91 | vSphere Management Assistant 6.5 | Management | A virtual machine that includes pre-packaged software such as a Linux distribution, the vSphere command-line interface, and the vSphere SDK for Perl. |
| 92 | VUM Sizing Estimator 6.5 | Calculator | Estimates the size of the VMware vSphere Update Manager 6.5 database and patch store. This estimate is calculated from the information entered about a deployment, such as the number of hosts and virtual machines. |
| 93 | WAN Latency Estimator | Networking | An estimate of WAN latency based on the light signal propagation time over a fibre link. |
| 94 | Webserver Stress Tool | Utility | A powerful HTTP-client/server test application designed to pinpoint critical performance issues in a website or web server. |
| 95 | WhatsUp Active Directory Monitor | Monitoring | Keep track of all the user accounts and passwords in your organization and implement enterprise-wide policies, credentials and security. It allows you to limit the numbers of usernames and logins end-users need to remember and increases security. |
| 96 | WhatsUp PortScanner | Networking | Identify active hosts using ICMP and TCP. Utilize multiple scanning deep-level technologies to find open ports. |
| 97 | WinSCP | Utility | WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client, FTP client, WebDAV client and SCP client for Windows. Its main function is file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers scripting and basic file manager functionality. |
| 98 | Wireshark | Networking | A network protocol analyser that gives insight on what’s happening on your network at a microscopic level. |
| 99 | Xfer Calculator | Calculator | Xfer Calculator is a bandwidth/transfer time/transfer size calculator. |
| 100 | XSI Backup | Backup | XSIBackup is a VMWare ESXi backup tool and Disaster Recovery solution, it uses the ESXi built-in command line to create unattended backup solutions, this means you can create a backup schema that will for example backup all your running virtual machines every night. |
| 101 | XSIDiff | Backup | An extremely high efficient command line tool to transfer VM disks locally or over IP. |
So there it is! 101 Free VMware tools for you. Have we missed any tools you think deserve to be on the list? Let us know in the comments below.