Snapshots in VMware vSphere often cause various problems with configurations and performance, unless they are properly used – for live backup of virtual machines and temporary keeping VM configuration before the update. However, using them in large infrastructures is unavoidable. At some point you may need to delete/consolidate virtual machine snapshots (Delete All button in Snapshot Manager), which is quite time-consuming and demanding in terms of storage performance. Thus it would be a good thing to know in advance how much time it takes.

In early February on the Enabling the Digital Enterprise online-event, VMware announced the new versions of its products and technologies planned for release in 2016: • VMware Horizon Air Hybrid-Mode – Enterprise VM management via VMware public cloud • Change in licensing for VMware vSphere, effective from June 30, 2016 • VMware Horizon 7 – countless new opportunities • New capabilities of VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 • Workspace ONE solution announcement • New versions of VMware vCloud Suite 7 and VMware vRealize Suite 7

On VMware Labs site you can read about new utilities which can simplify the management of VMware vSphere virtualization infrastructure. They help administrators to solve their everyday problems. The following list includes the tools with functions description.