These are the changes in version 3.2:

• New tabpage with distributed switch information
• New tabpage with distributed port information
• It’s now possible to export a single tabpage to an excel file from the command line
• It’s now possible to save the filter. The next time RVtools is started it will use the filter automatically.
• Bugfix: On vSnapshot tab the displayed filename and filesize are not always correct
• Bugfix: Improved exception handling on vPort tab

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 Latency Status, FT Band width and FT Secondary Latency
• On vInfo new field 128-bit SMBIOS UUID of the virtual machine.
• On vDatastore new fields Total provisioned, Used and shared storage
• On vDatastore new fields SIOC enabled flag and congested threshold value
• On vDisk new field disk persistence mode.
• On vNetwork all IP addresses of adapter are now visible
• On vMemory new field distributed Memory Entitlement
• On vCPU new fields static Cpu Entitlement and field distributed Cpu Entitlement
• On vHost new fields Current EVC mode and Max EVC mode
• New batch command line parameters -u user and -p password
• Bugfix: custom fields not always visible on vSnapshot tab.
• Bugfix: Export to Excel, some numeric columns are saved as text instead of numbers
• RVToolsBatch.cmd with send by email example deployed in RVTools program file directory

Version 2.9.5 (September, 2010)

• On vInfo tab new field: Guest heartbeat status. The heartbeat status is classified as:  gray – VMware Tools are not installed or not running, red – no heartbeat, guest operating system may have stopped responding. yellow -intermittent heartbeat, may be due to guest load. green – guest operating system is responding normally
• On vMemory tab new fields: Ballooned memory, consumed overhead memory, private memory, shared memory, swapped memory and static memory entitlement
• On vDatastore tab new field: Full device address (controller, target, device)
• On vInfo tab new fields: Commited storage, uncommited storage and unshared storage
• Bug fix! A semicolon in the annotations fields are no longer a problem for the export functions
• Bug fix! Health check “Zombie vmdk” problems solved
• Bug fix! Health check “inconsistent foldername” problems solved
• Bug fix! On vport tab the column “notify switch” value solved
• Bug fix! Sort problem on vNic tab on column “speed” solved

Version 2.9 (April 2010)

• On vHost tab new fields: Vendor and model.
• On vHost tab new fields: Bios version and Bios release date.
• On vInfo tab new field: VM overall size in bytes (visible when using VI API 4.0)
• On vSnapshot tab new fields: Snapshot filename and size in bytes (visible when using VI API 4.0)
• New vNic tab. The vNic tab displays for each physival nic on the host the following fields: Host, datacenter, cluster name, network device, driver, speed, duplex setting, mac address, PCI and wakeon switch.
• Layout change on vHost, vSwitch and vPort tabpages. They now all start with host name, datacenter and cluster name.
• The commandline function ExportAll extended with an extra optional parameter. It’s now possible to specify the directory where the export files are written.

Make sure to download the latest version!

Version 2.8.1 (February 2010)

• On vHost tab new field: number of running vCPUs
• On vSphere VMs in vApp where not displayed.
• Filter not working correct when annotations or custum fields contains null value.
• When NTP server(s) = null the time info fields are not displayed on the vHost tabpage.
• When datastore name or virtual machine name containts spaces the inconsistent foldername check was not working correct.
• Tools health check now only executed for running VMs.

Latest Version: 2.8 | January 31, 2010
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• On vHost tab field “# VMs” now only powered on VMs are counted.
• On vHost tab field “VMs per core” now only powered on VMs are counted.
• On vHost tab field “vCPUs per core” now only powered on VMs are counted.
• On vDatastore tab field “# VMs” now only calculated for VM’s which are powered on.
• Health check “Number of running virtual CPUs per core” now only powered on VMs are counted.
• Health check “Number of running VMs per datastore” now only powered on VMs are counted.
• During Installation there will be an application event source created for RVTools. This to fix some security related problems.
• Some users run into a timeout exception from the SDK Web server. The default web service timeout value is now changed to a higher value.
• New fields on vHost tab: NTP Server(s), time zone information, Hyper Threading information (available and active), Boot time, DNS Servers, DHCP flag, Domain name and  DNS Search order
• New Health Check: Inconsistent folder names.
• Improved exception handling on vDisk, vSwitch and vPort tab pages.

Version 2.7.3 (December 19, 2009)

• Files in .snapshot directories are no longer reported as zombies.
• CTK files are no longer reported as zombies.
• The problems with VM files which are placed in the root directory are now solved.
• Under some condition the filter screen terminated with an exception. This is fixed now.
• New fields on vDisk tab: ThinProvisioned and split.
• New field on vTools tab: Virtual machine hardware version.

Read the full releasenotes/documentation here. And make sure to get this new version, in my opinion this is one of the most valuable tools out there.

Why would you use vAudit? vAudit has been developed to show you when your VDI Users are logging in and for how long they are using the virtual desktop. I think it is the ideal auditing tool during a Proof of Concept. Are your users actually using it as much as they are saying? When are they using it and for how long?

vAudit has an export to CSV feature which enables you to analyze trends regarding usage. Below you can find the release notes and a link to the download section of Richard’s site.

Download Version 1.5

• vAudit now also checks for login failures, so you can detect if people are trying to hack into your system.
• You can now resize the username column, so you can actually read the username if you have long domain names.
• When you MouseOver a session, it will display the machine name and time information.

In the next release, I will try to add information about your top users, make an export function and at some point will give your a graph with daily concurrent usage.

Version 2.7.1 contains the following new features and bug fixes:

• RVTools now reports storage which is wasted by zombie VMs, VMDKs, templates and snapshots. You can find this information on the vHealth tab page. If you guys pay me a dime for every gigabyte of wasted storage, found by RVTools, you will make me rich.
• Due to the fact that the search all datastores task can take a long time to complete, RVTools now use a separate thread to collect this information.
• The default percentage value of “free datastore capacity” is changed from 10% to 15%.
• Bug fix! If a snapshot is more than two levels deep, only the first two are visible. With the input from Mike Price this problem is now solved! Thanks again Mike.

The full releasenotes can be found here. I guess that’s enough for today, just download it!