Rob de Veij has released RVTools 3.11, this is one of my favorite tools.

What’s new:

Upgraded RVTools solution to use VMware vSphere Management SDK 6.7U1

Windows Authentication Framework (Waffle) is no longer used by RVTools

NPOI .NET library for creating excel export files is no longer used by RVTools

RVTools now uses OpenXML and ClosedXML for creating the excel export files

Performance improvements for export to excel

added -ExcludeCustomAnnotations switch to RVTools command line interface

added –DBColumnNames switch to RVTools command line interface

vInfo tab page new column: Creation date virtual machine

vInfo tab page new columns: Primary IP Address and vmx Config Checksum

vInfo tab page new columns: log directory, snapshot directory and suspend directory

dvSwitch tab page new columns: LACP name, LACP mode and LACP loadbalance Algorithm

vNIC tab page new column: Name of uplink port

vNetwork tab page new column: Network Adapter DirectPath I/O Parameter

vHost tab page new columns: Serial number and BIOS vendor

Header row and first column in export Excel file are now locked.

First “Select” column is removed from excel worksheet vFloppy, vCD and vTools.

added a new executable to merge your vCenter xlsx files super-fast to one xlsx file. RVToolsMergeExcelFiles.exe -input c:\temp\AA.xlsx;c:\temp\BB.xlsx -output c:\temp\AABB.xlsx -template c:\temp\mytemplate.xlsx -verbose –overwrite

Example script RVToolsBatchMultipleVCs.ps1 is changed. It will now uses RVToolsMergeExcelFiles to merge the xlsx files.

Bug Fix: a Single Sign On problem solved

Bug Fix: ExportvSC+VMK2csv command was not working

Bug Fix: ExportdvPort2csv command was not working

Bug Fix: On vNIC tabpage not all Switch/dvSwitch information was displayed

Bug Fix: Export now reflect value of “Latency Sensitivity” enumeration

Bug Fix: After changing the preference settings the data is not always refreshed as needed

Bug fix: Content Libraries vmdk files are no longer reported as possible zombie files

Download RVTools here: https://www.robware.net/rvtools/