I have seen recently this fling and the output that it produces is very interesting and useful. The vSphere Software Asset Management (vSAM) is a tool that collects and summarizes vSphere product deployment information. It calls on vSphere APIs for deployment data and produces a PDF report that the customer can consult as a part of their infrastructure review and planning process. This lightweight Java application runs on Windows, Linux or Mac OS.
Features:
- Support both vCenter Server cluster and Standalone ESXi host with a version of vSphere 5.5, 6.X or newer
- Generate comprehensive report from various aspects:
- High-level product deployment summary
- Product deployment report by targets (standalone ESXi or VC cluster)
- High level license key usage report
- License key usage by targets
- Provide Software Asset Management suggestions on:
- Evaluation license warning
- License term
- Pre-expiration 90 days warning
- Expiration alert
- License capacity
- Potential capacity waste warning based on customized threshold
- Potential capacity shortage warning based on customized threshold
- Capacity over-use alert
- Product support
- End of General Support info
- General Support pre-expiration 90 days warning
- Unsupported product alert
- Protect customer sensitive information by:
- Collecting minimal set of information relative with Software Asset Management
- Masking sensitive info in the report
- Supporting encryption of raw data file
- Support merging multi reports into one report
- Support English and Chinese report
- Support customization of report