Virtual infrastructures continue to grow as more servers are migrated to virtual machines. Therefore, the need to properly document essential components of virtualized environments increases. One of the leading virtualization analysts at Gartner recently stated, "You need to start monitoring and reporting on VMware. If you aren't, you're in for lots of pain". Without automated documentation processes, you risk losing control over virtual machine configurations, ESX server capacity because of VM sprawl, and many other critical parameters affecting your virtual environment.
NetWrix VMware Reporter is a free tool that collects and reports information about your VMware environment, including virtual machines, ESX servers, resource pools, etc., and sends comprehensive summary reports by e-mail on a daily basis for documentation purposes. The reports can be used for infrastructure overview and planning, change auditing, and to prevent virtual machine sprawl ("VM sprawl"). The product is currently a part of the VMware Change Reporter, so you get two free products in one for easier documentation and change management support.
The product can be installed separately, but also is available as a part of an integrated Change Reporter Suite that automates auditing of the entire IT infrastructure.
The product has Freeware and Enterprise editions. Please review the
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