Rvtools displays information virtual machines on vmware esx hosts and update the vmware tools installed in virtual machines.
What is rvtools.
Rvtools gives you every information you need.
Rvtools is a vmware utility that uses vi sdk to give you all the information you need about your virtual environment.
It would take you quite a few clicks to gather the necessary information if you d proceed manually via the vsphere client.
Rvtools is a windows net 4 6 1 application which uses vmware vsphere management sdk 7 0 and cis rest api to display information about your virtual environments.
This is a free tool created by rob de veij and it works well for all vmware vsphere and v13 computing environments.
It s not easy to manage large infrastructures with little or no budget.
It uses the vi sdk to display information about your virtual machines.
Rvtools is the brainchild of rob de veij who is a programmer an infrastructure engineer and a long time resident of the it business.
It connects to your vcenter server to gather this information for you.
The vinfo tab displays for each virtual machine the virtual machine name powerstate template config status dns name connection state guest state heartbeat consolidation needed power on date time suspend date time creation date time change version.
Read more about the information which are gathered by rvtools.