Most popular VMWare Virtual Appliances for IT Administrators
Updated on September 23, 2009: Please review the updated list of virtual appliances.
You may also be interested in reviewing virtual appliances for Security.
The original post has been retained as a historical reference. The download links for most of the appliances in the following table no longer work since VMware has revamped the Appliance Marketplace.
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I have ranked the virtual appliances for IT Administrators available at the VMWare Virtual Appliance Marketplace (VVAM) as described below. I am going through this exercise to gain an understanding of what types of appliances are popular, who is providing them and what they are composed of. Apart from the serial number in the first column and the computed Rank in the last column, all other data is from the VVAM; the titles are self-explanatory.
Methodology
- I accessed the listings for Administration, sorted them by Rating and cut and pasted the first 100 listing into an Excel spreadsheet.
- The Star rating that is visible on the web page shows up as a decimal fraction in Excel, this is what you see in the Customer Rating column below.
- I computed a Rank for each listing by multiplying the Customer Rating x 100 x the number of ratings for that appliance.
- Finally I sorted the result by the rank to prepare the table that appears below. I have selected the top 20 of 269 appliances.
- The virtual appliances are ordered by their rank from the highest to the lowest
- I found it interesting that several appliances that rated a 5 had either one or no user each and the bulk of the ratings are for appliances having 4 and 3 stars.
|
No. |
IT Administration Virtual Appliance |
What is it used for? |
Customer Rating (R) |
# Ratings (N) |
Rank (R*100*N) |
|
1 |
Internet Privacy Appliance. Encrypts your Internet traffic, hides your IP address, and is easy to setup. |
4.7009 |
448 |
210,600 |
|
|
2 |
*Most popular Firewall appliance* All-in-one firewall package upgraded with VMXnet, heartbeat and MUI-control. |
4.5283 |
159 |
72,000 |
|
|
3 |
A tiny but mighty tcp load balancer |
4.1333 |
132 |
57,200 |
|
|
4 |
This setup helps make sure that critical machines is as little downtime as possible |
4.1714 |
35 |
14,600 |
|
|
5 |
SpamTitan allows you create a Email Security Appliance for your Gateway |
4.3478 |
23 |
10,000 |
|
|
6 |
Antispam / Antivirus Gateway and Email Archive Server |
4.1739 |
23 |
9,600 |
|
|
7 |
BalancePoint helps VMware customers fix performance issues, avoid future problems, and optimize server and storage capacity |
4.1364 |
22 |
9,100 |
|
|
8 |
Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop VMware image with VMware Tools and sound |
3.7500 |
24 |
9,000 |
|
|
9 |
Instant IT Monitoring |
4.0000 |
22 |
8,800 |
|
|
10 |
Best-of-breed open source network security applications with supporting scripts and a web-based front-end management interface. |
4.0000 |
17 |
7,200 |
|
|
11 |
Download Link has been disabled post close of Windows 7 Beta. Windows 7 is the next release of Microsoft Windows, an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers. |
4.2500 |
16 |
6,800 |
|
|
12 |
Application Delivery Controller |
4.0000 |
16 |
6,400 |
|
|
13 |
rPath Port 25 Mail Server Appliance |
3.9333 |
15 |
5,900 |
|
|
14 |
NAS and SAN storage operating system |
3.6875 |
16 |
5,900 |
|
|
15 |
The File Transfer Appliance allows you to send up to 2 Gb files securely using a standard web browser. |
4.7500 |
8 |
3,800 |
|
|
16 |
VNSA provides granular, real time and historical visibility into the virtual switch traffic. |
4.3750 |
8 |
3,500 |
|
|
17 |
Use to provision virtual and physical Linux systems through Kickstart |
4.2500 |
8 |
3,400 |
|
|
18 |
Get started Managing Your IP Space Address today! Freeware! |
3.7500 |
8 |
3,000 |
|
|
19 |
It analyzes network traffic using netflow data and reports on bandwidth usage by top applications, conversations and hosts. |
4.1429 |
7 |
2,900 |
|
|
20 |
MediaWiki plus the LAMP stack in a turn-key VMware form-factor |
4.1429 |
7 |
2,900 |
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