Cool tool update: RVTools 3.8

It has been a year since version 3.7, but finally here it is… RVTools 3.8. Rob de Vey has been developing this tool since early 2008 and over half a million copies have been downloaded so far. I understand why, as it is a very easy to use tool that produces a lot of great information. On top of everything it was already providing, Rob introduced the following in version 3.8:

• VI SDK reference changed from 5.5 to 6.0
• on vInfo tab page new field: ChangeVersion unique identifier for a given version of the configuration
• on vInfo tab page new field: HA VM Monitoring status
• on vInfo tab page new fields: Number of supported monitors and Video RAM in KB
• on vInfo tab page new field: Config status. Config issues are visible on the vHealth tab page
• on vInfo tab page new field: OS according to the VMware Tools
• on vTools tab page new fields: App state, App heartbeat status and Kernel crash state
• on vTools tab page new fields: Operations availability, State change support and Interactive Guest Operations availability
• on vHost tab page new field: NTPD running state.
• NTP issues are visible on the vHealth tab page
• on vHost tab page new field: Config status. Config issues are visible on the vHealth tab page
• on vCluster tab page new field: Config status. Config issues are visible on the vHealth tab page
• on vDatastore tab page new field: Config status. Config issues are visible on the vHealth tab page
• on vSC+VMK tab page new fields: IP 6 Address and IP 6 Gateway
• all VM related tab pages now have a VM Object ID and VM UUID columns
• all VM related tab pages now have powerstate and template columns
• all tab pages. Now have a vCenter UUID column (= unique identifier for a vCenter Server)
• all VM related tab pages. The Custom Attributes columns are now ordered alphabetically
• all tab pages. A select is now a full row select so it is easier to follow the information across many columns
• bug fix: Refresh data issue on vRP and vCluster tab pages solved
• bug fix: Filter issue on vCluster tab page solved
• bug fix: On vInfo tab page the HA information was not filled with cluster default values
• bug fix: Content Libraries vmdk files are no longer reported as possible zombie files
• bug fix: msi installer sometimes installs RVTools in root of c:\ drive. This is solved now.