Top 5 Free Tools for VMware and Hyper-V

Veeam Backup™ Free Edition is the new FastSCP™. Create an ad-hoc backup of a VM using VeeamZIP™— without pausing or powering off the VM! With Veeam Backup Free Edition, you can also restore individual guest files directly from a backup, manage VM and host files and migrate VMs between hosts and/or datastores*—all with this free, must-have tool for VMware and Hyper-V administrators.
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Veeam ONE Free Edition offers many of the powerful capabilities of Veeam ONE, including agentless data collection, multi-user support, 24x7 real-time monitoring, prebuilt alarms, dashboards and reports, and more. There are no limits on the number of hosts, management servers and Failover Clusters you can monitor and report on with Veeam ONE Free Edition, and upgrading to the full version of Veeam ONE is as simple as installing a full license key. Collapse

Create four detailed reports using extended functionality not found in the current Microsoft System Center Generic Report Library. The Veeam Extended GRL doesn’t limit you to physical or virtual environments, or specific management packs. Best of all, it’s FREE.Collapse

The Veeam Management Pack 10-Pack includes a free 10-socket license of Veeam Management Pack for deep VMware monitoring in System Center 2012 plus one full year of maintenance and support.
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Veeam Stencils is a free set of Visio stencils that contains ESX and Hyper-V hosts, SCVMM, datacenters, local and shared storage, LUN, NICs, virtual machines with the status signs, networks and more. ESX and datacenter administrators can use the free collection of Hyper-V and VMware virtualization Visio stencils to create diagrams in reports. This free virtualization product can also be used to improve customer experience, business process effectiveness, monitoring capabilities and workflow. Collapse