Here's the slide deck for my "Free Tools" session at the Minneapolis VMUG Super Meeting on 09/13/18

1. Troubleshooting &
Assessing the Health of
VMware Environments with
Free Tools
Paul Woodward Jr
Datacenter Engineer – Presidio
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2. Agenda
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 Introduction
 Tools Provided by VMware
 Demos
 Tools Recommended by the Community
 Demos
 Q&A
Remember, this is a COMMUNITY SESSION!

3. Paul Woodward Jr
Systems Engineer Data Center – Presidio
Twitter @ExploreVM
Blog: ExploreVM.com
ExploreVM Podcast – iTunes, Google Play, I Heart Radio, etc..
Virtual Design Master Season 4 – 3rd Place
Tech Field Day 15 Delegate (Sept. 2017)
Spoken at numerous VMUG meetings across many states
Spoke at Nutanix .Next 2017, VMworld 2017, & VMworld 2018

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5. vRealize Log Insight
 OSI licenses are only consumed
when a device is configured to send
logs to vRLI.
 Just having a VM inside the
infrastructure doesn't consume an
OSI unless it's sending logs itself.
 vCenter licensing includes a 25 OSI pack
of vRealize Log Insight licensing.
 This is good for a single Log Insight
appliance, and up to 25 items including
vCenter, VMs, network devices, and
VMware components.
ITS FREE*
*Included with vCenter Licensing as of 2016

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vRealize Log Insight
Now, the unfortunate news…
vRealize Log Insight for vCenter Server continues to be available for Log
Insight versions up to 4.6.x, until the End of General Support of vRealize Log
Insight 4.6.x on August 23, 2019
• Purchase Log Intelligence, a new VMware SaaS offering as part of
VMware Cloud Services, supporting both public and private clouds, with a
30-day free trial.
• Upgrade to vRealize Suite, our enterprise ready cloud management suite.
• Purchase full vRealize Log Insight as a standalone product.

9. ESXTOP
 Utility built into ESXi
 Ran via SSH into the host
 Near real time updates (5 seconds)
 Interactive, Batch, & Replay mode

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12.  “vCheck is a PowerShell HTML framework script”
 Can run manually or as a scheduled task
 Output as an HTML web page or email
 Over 150 items checked
 Prerequisites:
• PowerShell V2
• PowerCLI 5.01 or later version
• vCenter 2.5 or later version

15. RVTools
 “RVTools is a Windows .NET 4.0 application which uses the VI SDK to
display information about your virtual environments”
 Similar to vCheck
 Data is displayed in a GUI versus a page/email
 Outputs 24 metrics

17. Veeam One Free Edition
• Similar to vROPS
VMware PowerCLI MP for Linux
& Mac OS
vDocumentation
• Ariel Sanchez Mora
• Community-created set of PowerCLI
scripts that produce infrastructure
documentation
Vester
• Chris Wahl
• Easily validate and remediate your
vSphere configuration

18. All resources mentioned in this session, as
well as the slide deck, are available on
ExploreVM.com

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Any Questions?