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by Duncan Epping

Tools

RVTools updated to 2.9.5

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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 Rob,

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

Cool Tool Update: RVTools 2.9

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Rob de Veij has just released a new version of RVTools:

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!

Cool Tool Update: RVTools 2.8.1

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Rob de Veij has just released a new version of RVTools. The update only contains bug fixes but most definitely worth downloading again!

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.

RVTools 2.8

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Rob de Veij just released a brand new version of RVTools. Download it while it is still hot! Please note that this application supports ESX(i) Server 3.5 and vCenter 2.5. vSphere 4 is in experimental support.

Latest Version: 2.8 | January 31, 2010
Download | Documentation

  • 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.

Cool Tool Update: RVTools 2.7.3

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Rob de Veij has just updated RVTools to version 2.7.3. This excellent tool now includes the following additional features and fixes:

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.