It has been a year since version 3.7, but finally here it is… RVTools 3.8. Rob de Vey has been developing this tool since early 2008 and over half a million copies have been downloaded so far. I understand why, as it is a very easy to use tool that produces a lot of great information. On top of everything it was already providing, Rob introduced the following in version 3.8:

VI SDK reference changed from 5.5 to 6.0

on vInfo tab page new field: ChangeVersion unique identifier for a given version of the configuration

on vInfo tab page new field: HA VM Monitoring status

on vInfo tab page new fields: Number of supported monitors and Video RAM in KB

on vInfo tab page new field: Config status. Config issues are visible on the vHealth tab page

on vInfo tab page new field: OS according to the VMware Tools

on vTools tab page new fields: App state, App heartbeat status and Kernel crash state

on vTools tab page new fields: Operations availability, State change support and Interactive Guest Operations availability

on vHost tab page new field: NTPD running state.

NTP issues are visible on the vHealth tab page

on vHost tab page new field: Config status. Config issues are visible on the vHealth tab page

on vCluster tab page new field: Config status. Config issues are visible on the vHealth tab page

on vDatastore tab page new field: Config status. Config issues are visible on the vHealth tab page

on vSC+VMK tab page new fields: IP 6 Address and IP 6 Gateway

all VM related tab pages now have a VM Object ID and VM UUID columns

all VM related tab pages now have powerstate and template columns

all tab pages. Now have a vCenter UUID column (= unique identifier for a vCenter Server)

all VM related tab pages. The Custom Attributes columns are now ordered alphabetically

all tab pages. A select is now a full row select so it is easier to follow the information across many columns

bug fix: Refresh data issue on vRP and vCluster tab pages solved

bug fix: Filter issue on vCluster tab page solved

bug fix: On vInfo tab page the HA information was not filled with cluster default values

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

bug fix: msi installer sometimes installs RVTools in root of c:\ drive. This is solved now.

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