RVTools,a great windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts. New version of RVTools has been released which is RVTools 3.6. It is one of the tool that every vMware admin should have in their machine. RVTools doesn’t simply display the information about your Virtual infrastructure but also perform some administrative actions like VMware tools upgrade and disconnect cd-ROM and Floppy drive.
RVTools can interact with almost all versions of vCenter and ESX/ESXi host including VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX Server 3.5, ESX Server 3i, VirtualCenter 4.x, ESX Server 4.x, VirtualCenter 5.0, VirtualCenter Appliance, ESX Server 5.0, VirtualCenter 5.1, ESX Server 5.1, VirtualCenter 5.5, ESX Server 5.5.
Using RVTools, you can connect to vCenter server or ESXi host to collect the information.
New features available as part of RVTools 3.6:
vCluster Tab – New tab with cluster information
vMultipath Tab – New tab with multipath information
vInfo Tab displays the below new fields in the RVTools 3.6
a. HA Isolation response and HA restart priority information
b. Cluster Affinity Rule information
c. Connection State and suspend time
d. Connection state and suspend time
e. vSphere HA protection state for a virtual machine (DAS protection)
f. Quest state
vCPU Tab – Displays new fields Hot Add and Hot remove information and also displays with CPU/Sockets/Cores information
vHost tab – Displays new fields vMotion support and Storage vMotion support
vMemory tab – Displays a new field called Hot Add
vNetwork Tab – Displays a new field called VM folder
VSC_VMK Tab – Displays new field called MTU
Bugs fixed in this release:
1.Datastore bug for ESX version 3.5
2.VMFolder bug when started form the command line
3.Improved documentation for command line options
You can download RVTools and enjoy collection the useful information about your virtual infrastructure. I hope this post will be informative to you. Thanks for reading. Be Social and share it in social media, if you feel worth sharing it.