Cool tool update: RVTools 2.5

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.
• New fields on vInfo tab: Network #1 to Network #4
• New fields on vDisk tab: Level, Shares, SCSI Controller, Unit id and vmdk path name. I’m now using the “config.hardware” information to fill this tab page. In the previous versions of the program I was using the guest information which have a strong dependency with the VMware tools.
• New fields on vNetwork tab: Adapter type and Mac Address type.I’m now using the “config.hardware” information to fill this tab page. In the previous versions of the program I was using the guest information which have a strong dependency with the VMware tools.
• New field on vHost tab: Number of VMs per core
• New tab! vHealth. Displays health check messages.There are 8 possible “Health Check” messages:
  1. VM has a CDROM device connected!
  2. VM has a Floppy device connected!
  3. VM has an active snapshot!
  4. VMware tools are out of date, not running or not installed!
  5. On disk xx is yy% disk space available! The threshold value is zz%
  6. On datastore xx is yy% disk space available! The threshold value is zz%
  7. There are xx VMs active per core on this host. The threshold value is zz%
  8. There are xx VMs active on this datastore. The threshold value is zz%

• You can set your “own” health check threshold values in the “Health Check Properties” form.