What is RVTools?
RVTools is a windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts. Interacting with vCenter 2.5, ESX(i) Server 3.x, ESX(i) Server 4.x, vCenter 4.x, ESXi Server 5.x and vCenter 5.x.

RVTools is able to list information about VMs, CPU, Memory, Disks, Partitions, Network, Floppy drives, CD drives, Snapshots, VMware tools, Resource pools, ESX hosts, HBAs, Nics, Switches, Ports, Distributed Switches, Distributed Ports, Service consoles, VM Kernels, Datastores and health checks. With RVTools you can disconnect the cd-rom or floppy drives from the virtual machines and RVTools is able to update the VMware Tools installed inside each virtual machine to the latest version.

What do I need?
This application supports vCenter 2.5, ESX(i) Server 3.x, ESX(i) Server 4.x, vCenter 4.x, ESXi Server 5.x and vCenter 5.x.

What’s new?

• New tabpage with cluster information
• New tabpage with multipath information
• On vInfo tabpage new fields HA Isolation response and HA restart priority
• On vInfo tabpage new fields Cluster affinity rule information
• On vInfo tabpage new fields connection state and suspend time
• On vInfo tabpage new field The vSphere HA protection state
  for a virtual machine (DAS Protection)
• On vInfo tabpage new field quest state.
• On vCPU tabpage new fields Hot Add and Hot Remove information
• On vCPU tabpage cpu/socket/cores information adapted
• On vHost tabpage new fields VMotion support and storage VMotion support
• On vMemory tabpage new field Hot Add
• On vNetwork tabpage new field VM folder.
• On vSC_VMK tabpage new field MTU
• RVToolsSendMail: you can now also set the mail subject
• Fixed a datastore bug for ESX version 3.5
• Fixed a vmFolder bug when started from the commandline
• Improved documentation for the commandline options

Where to get it?
Download it from the Robware website.

Any documentation?
The documentation can also be found on the Robware website.

Niels Engelen

Working as a Principal Analyst in Product Management for Veeam Software with an interest in anything virtual and cloud with a strong focus on AWS, Azure and Microsoft 365. He is also a VMware Certified Professional, a Veeam Certified Architect and gained the VMware vExpert award (2012-2022).