Free IT Monitoring for VMware vSphere with NAKIVO

Monitor up to 10 VMware vSphere VMs
1 year of free IT monitoring and data protection
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IT Monitoring for VMware and Full Data Protection
All-in-One Free Edition

Real-Time Visibility Into Every VMware VM, Host and Datastore

Check the health and performance of your vSphere infrastructure from one dashboard. Track CPU, RAM and disk usage across hosts, VMs and datastores. No extra tools, no agents.

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2-Minute Deployment

Easily deploy NAKIVO’s solution in your environment and run your first backup in minutes.

One-click Windows installation

Single-command Linux deployment

Pre-configured VMware vSphere or Nutanix AHV VA

Pre-configured Amazon Machine Image

Flexible installation on NAS devices

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Gartner^® Peer Insights^TM Voice of the Customer Report Enterprise Backup and Recovery Solutions

“We saved 60% of our time spent on monitoring and maintaining the heterogeneous set of different backup applications. We are using the saved time to create more sophisticated backup and recovery strategies and have time to actually test VM recovery on a regular basis. NAKIVO brought confidence in our backups to a new level”.

Fabian Schmitz, IT Manager at Genius

“We did our due diligence online and found NAKIVO Backup & Replication to be reliable, easy-to-use, scalable, and efficient… IT monitoring provides a one-stop monitoring page that is extremely useful for visualizing the overall performance status of your system”.

Michel Gyebi, IT Network and Systems Engineer at E.W. Wylie

“I enjoy VMware monitoring functionality the most as the feature provides all the necessary information I need to proactively monitor the health of our environment. We configure alerts to quickly detect suspicious activities in the environment, and we can also view different kinds of reports”.

Archil Ivanishvili, Junior Infrastructure Solution Architect at LAB Technologies

Running VMware at Scale?

If your environment grows past 10 VMs, or calls for cloud backup, advanced ransomware protection, full disaster recovery orchestration or VMware Cloud Director support, step up to an edition built to protect more.

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Does the Free Edition cover more than IT monitoring?

Yes. Alongside monitoring your VMware vSphere VMs, the NAKIVO Free Edition allows you to back up and replicate workloads across different platforms. Protect up to 10 workloads — VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Amazon EC2, Windows and Linux — plus 5 Microsoft 365 users, all from one interface.

Can I see historical data or only real-time metrics?

Both. The NAKIVO dashboard brings real-time and historical data together in one at-a-glance view. Review resource consumption over time, check what’s available right now and use the trends to plan capacity and anticipate scaling.

Is support included with the Free Edition?

Yes. You can reach NAKIVO experts through Live Chat right inside the web interface to get assistance without leaving the solution.

What’s the difference between the Free Trial and the Free Edition?

The Free Trial gives you the complete NAKIVO feature set for 15 days at full scale so that you can monitor up to 1,000 VMs and 100 hosts. After 15 days, the features switch off until you add a license.

The Free Edition stays free for a year and suits smaller setups: Monitoring and backup for up to 10 VMs. Pick the trial to test everything at full scale, or the Free Edition to protect a small environment at no cost.

Can I set up alerts for performance issues or suspicious activity?

Yes. Configure alerts to flag performance issues and unusual behavior across your VMware hosts, VMs and datastores, including signs of a potential ransomware attack. Timely notifications help you react faster and keep your infrastructure safe.