In the VMware VCP5 training, we used several utilities.

Some of these I had used before, but some of these were new to me so I put them all in a list.

1. BGinfo was on all of the lab servers to easily show the information about what box you were on.
2. TrapReceiver was used to set up test SNMP traps. http://www.trapreceiver.com/
3. IOmeter was used. I’ve used this before. It’s dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing. It can fill up a drive with gigs of test data in seconds. CAUTION!  http://www.iometer.org/
4. CPUbusy – you see this talked about in VMware forums and online. You might have to dig for this on Google but here are some links; http://www.four2.org/cpubusy/ and http://communities.vmware.com/thread/58218?start=0&tstart=0
5. EXTPART – the Dell utility for quickly expanding volumes. http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/driverdetails?driverid=R64398
6. NEWSID.exe
7. Also, here is the authoritative (from VMware) list of acronyms and definitions.