Tools I Use - Veeam

Veeam seems to have snuck into everyones shop with FastSCP a free SCP client that is FAST for ESX. They have branched out into backup and monitoring as well. ESX Stencils - Everyone loves a pretty picture in Visio RootAccess - Not to allow RootAccess but to add local user accounts FastSCP - Great SCP utility for copying files to ESX and can elevate to root. One caveat, if you have ESX hosts behind a firewall, FastSCP uses high ports and can not be fixed to the SCP port (22). I use FileZilla for these. ESXDiag - Good troubleshooting tool for random errors, or "double checking" a server before deploying.