New Version of RV tools from Rob de Veij
RV tools – famous freeware application had been updated.
As spotted on Duncan’s blog there has been new update of RVTools, which is one of my favourite Freeware Applications that I use to manage VMware Virtual Infrastructure.
This little tool works with VI SDK. It’s a windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK 2.5.
You can have a look at Rob’s site, there is the MSI package available as a free download. I’m following this little application from the early stages and I saw quite a lots of improvements and enhancements made by Rob through the time. Sure Rob does that for free, but you can donate to support the future developments too…. 
What’s supported and what’s not? The application supports ESX Server 3.5, VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX Server 3i and ESX Server 4i. Experimental support for vSphere 4!
What’s new in this release ?
- 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.
Source: Robware
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