The product reports every change made to your Virtual Infrastructure, including virtual hardware, ESX servers, folders, data stores, and other objects. With Change Reporter, you always have a list of changes, compared to previous values.

Features: Tracking changes in virtual machine configurations is a business critical task for all companies that rely on them. Virtualized environments managed by more than one IT professional require consistent change monitoring to detect wrong changes made due to miscommunications and unauthorized changes made as a result of incorrect delegation of rights. For consistent regulatory conformance one needs auditing mechanisms for all changes that can affect security of an organization. NetWrix Change Reporter for VMware Infrastructure 3 audits all changes and enforces controlled change management processes across virtualization environments. Daily reports generated lists all changes made to virtual servers, ESX servers, resource pools and other object types. The reports document who made the changes and when they were made. Before and after values are also documented.

Erroneous and unauthorized changes can cause unexpected failures and unplanned outages, and usually occur every day in organizations where many IT professionals manage aspects of virtual infrastructure. Important features of this application include not only day to day monitoring of administration but also regulatory compliance, prevention of virtual machine sprawl, reporting of all configuration changes etc. Predefined and custom reports can be set up. All reports are based on the set of predefined formatting rules that dictate how to display objects and configuration entries. These rules can be customized to change the way reports are displayed and may also include or exclude specific objects and settings. Reporting can be for a long period too as a historical perspective.

Overall: Fairly comprehensive change reporting that serves a vital purpose.