Today Rob de Veij released an update of his excellent tool called RVTools. We are up to version 3.2 already. You can find the update on the RVTools website. RVTools is an essential tool for every vSphere Admin. It allows you to report on the most important aspects of your virtual infrastructure, but probably the most important ones are limits [...]

Rob just released a brand new version of RVTools. So what’s new? Version 3.1 (April, 2011) Logon form tab order rearranged Logon form will remember your last selected host / vCenter server On vInfo new fields Provisioned, Used and shared storage On vInfo new fields install Boot Required, number of Virtual Disks On vInfo new fields Fault Tolerance State,  FT [...]

When I was enjoying some family time yesterday Eric Sloof stole my usual RVTools scoop. Nevertheless I believe it is worth publishing this as RVTools is one of the most valuable free non-vendor tools out there. Rob de Veij released a major version of RVTools. There are couple of major improvements in this version and hence the reason it took [...]

Ever since ESX 2.5 I have always been looking for cool free tools to monitor my hosts. I guess one of the oldest free tools out there is vmktree. Especially in the 2.x timeframe vmktree helped me out solving some weird performance issues. Back then vmktree was still dependent on vmkusage (who remembers that one?) but as of ESX 3.0 [...]

I introduced Opvizor a couple of days ago and figured why not give it a spin with a vm-support files of one of my hosts in my lab. I used vCenter to create the vm-support file, for those who have never done that it is really simple: open the vSphere Client Click Administration Click “Export System Logs” Select the server [...]

Recently Dennis Zimmer, which most of you probably know of Icomasoft or from the books he authored, emailed me about a new tool his company was developing. I watched the video that is hosted on opvizor.com and must admit that it looks promising. Especially as most solutions today are reactive or semi-pro-active and opvizor is aiming to be pro-active. opvizor [...]

This tool doesn’t need an introduction anymore. One of the most valuable free tools I know… RVTools. Rob found some spare time again and managed to update RVTools. It includes some bug fixes and new fields. Just download it and try it out, I am certain it will dig up something that you did not know about! Keep it up [...]