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!