It’s just a minor update this time from Rob de Veij: RVTools 2.5.1 Version 2.5.1 (April 15, 2009) Bug fix! Better exception handling on the vDisk and vNetwork tab pages. With the help from Alan Civita this problem is now solved! Thanks again Alan.
Rob de Veij has done it again…. a brand new version of RVTools, 2.5! Here are the new features of this release: The installation file now understands how to upgrade without the need to uninstall the previous version first. The documentation file is now also deployed to the program directory.You can start the Adobe reader from the RVTools “help” menu. [...]
A few weeks ago I had a conference call with an unknown company, well at least for me it was still unknown. Eric Chiu contacted me if he, and his team, could demonstrate their new product. HyTrust‘s product is an appliance. Not only virtual but also physical. But as a virtualization consultant of course the virtual appliance is what interested [...]
A while back I wrote an article on checking your disk alignment and even changing the disk alignment from the service console. Since then a lot of people asked me for the exact link, because I don’t have a now.NetApp.com account I wasn’t able to provide it. Today I received an email from the developer, Eric Forgette, with a link [...]
Rob de Veij just uploaded a minor update of RVTools, version 2.4.1. Make sure you download it and replace the 2.4 version I blogged about just three days ago. The new filter throws an exception when there are ESX hosts which do not belong to any cluster. With the help from Mario Vinet this problem is now solved! Thanks again [...]
Another update again by Rob de Veij, RVTools 2.4. This release includes a new feature, filtering. Rob also revealed that the upcoming version will contain health checks. Here are the changes: Version 2.4 (March 2009) On the vDatastore tab you can now see which hosts are connected to the datastore. The data on the vInfo, vCpu, vMemory, vDisk, vFloppy, vCD, [...]
If we look at the VMTN community today there are a whole lot of people sharing powershell scripts, perl and even .net programs. Back in the days of ESX 2.x there wasn’t such a huge community, but there was one tool that everyone knew about and probably everyone tested and used at one point, vmktree! Lars Trøen is man behind [...]
