I wrote about RVTools 2.0 a month ago and suggested a couple of additions. Rob picked these suggestions by me and a couple of my readers up and started implementing them in his tool. Here’s the release notes for this new version:
Version 2.1 (November 2008)
- Overall performance improvements.
- New vInfo tab. The “vInfo” tab displays for each virtual machine the hostname of the guest, power state, power on date / time, number of cpu’s, amount of memory, number of nics, configuration path, annotation, ESX host name, operating system name and VI SDK object id.
- New CPU tab. The “vCpu” tab displays for each virtual machine number of cpu’s, max cpu, overall cpu usage, shares, reservations, limits, annotations, ESX host name and operating system name.
- New Memory tab. The “vMemory” tab displays for each virtual machine the memory size, max memory usage, memory overhead, guest memory, host memory, shares, reservations , limits, annotations, ESX host name and operating system name
- New snapshot tab. The “vSnapshot” tab displays for each snapshot the name, description, date / time of the snapshot, quiesced value, state value, annotations, ESX host name and operating system name.
- The header text is automatically included after a copy and past action. This version 1.1 functionality was “lost” in version 2.0.
I don’t know about you guys but for just one guy writing this FREE tool this is pretty impressive. Pick it up and be sure to have it in your VI Toolkit!
duncan, i double that, this guy is brilliant. thanks for the “heads up” – yellow-bricks seems to cover everything i need. big THANKS to rob! – now i need to test this vi swiss army knife.
Super awesome.
Rob may have his mime type set incorrectly for .MSI files on his web server. In FireFox, left clicking on the .MSI link above opens the .MSI in text instead of prompting for a download. In IE6, it prompts for a download but I believe that is because IE knows what an .MSI file is.
Hi all! Yes, a great utility. While cut & paste of the information works, I’d like to see a feature where the info can be exported into a couple of common formats. I know VIC can do this but it’s kinda clumsy. Thanks again Rob & Duncan.
Hello again… while mentioning features. Any chance the tool could start up and connect at the cluster level? Host/VC is good but for general reporting I’d like to do this across a cluster at login time. Thanks!