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VMware: Updated RV Tools version 2.9

May 1st, 2010 sanderdaems No comments

RV Tools version 2.9 is released by Rob de Veij, whats new:

  • 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.

Latest Version: 2.9 | April, 2010
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VMware: RVTools Version 2.8 new release

January 31st, 2010 sanderdaems No comments

Latest Version: 2.8 | January 31, 2010

RVTools is a windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK 2.5 to display information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts. Interacting with VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX 3.5, ESX3i or ESX4i RVTools is able to list information about cpu, memory, disks, nics, cd-rom, floppy drives, snapshots, VMware tools, ESX hosts, datastores, switches, ports and health checks. With RVTools you can disconnect the cd-rom or floppy drives from the virtual machines and RVTools is able to list the current version of the VMware Tools installed inside each virtual machine. and update them to the latest version

Whats new:

  • 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.

  • Download: here

    Information: here

    Source: here

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