Important VMware links

VMware Tools

To download Operating system specific VMware tools packages, visits the links below:

http://packages.vmware.com/tools/index.html

To find the VMware Tools for ESX/ESXi version-number codes, visits the links below:

http://packages.vmware.com/tools/versions

VMware Logs

KB Article - Location of log files for VMware products

ESX Patches

VMware Patch portal - Search tool to find patches available for VMWare products

Exploring ESXTOP

VMware Free Tools

RV Tools - gets information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts
Veeam Backup Free Edition - backup, archive or copy a VM
Veeam ONE Free Edition - real-time monitoring and alerts
VMware vSphere PowerCLI - powerful command-line tool
VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) - manage ESXi & vCenter server through command-lineVMware Player - runs multiple OS at the same time on your PC
VMware Converter - transforms physical machines to virtual machines
ESXPlot -  GUI-based tool that lets you explore the data collected by esxtop
VMware Guest Console - used as Task Manager, Mass Deployment, File explorer, Snapshot Manager, VM Manager and Inventory
VMware Boomerang - allows you to use multiple vSphere servers simultaneouslyMagic ISO Maker - powerful CD/DVD image file creating/editing/extracting tool
WinISO Maker - image file editing tool, which allows to make bootable ISO files





Physical to Virtual migration (P2V)

NFS

KB Article - Adding an NFS datastore to an ESX/ESXi host fails with the error.
KB Article - Increasing the default value that defines the maximum number of NFS mounts.
KB Article - Definition of the advanced NFS options