Sample of html report.
What is rvtools report.
Rvtools usage once initiated the first screen that rvtools displays is vinfo figure 4 a screen that contains information regarding the vms that reside in your vsphere environment.
Personnal configuration parameters.
The rvtools log in window.
Register and download rvtools.
Vinfo the vinfo tab displays for each virtual machine the virtual machine name powerstate template config status dns name connection state guest state heartbeat.
Thresholds for filesystem and logical units selection of html viewer rvtools command line screen colors buttons colors and aspect of graphs.
Rvtools is a vmware utility that uses vi sdk to give you all the information you need about your virtual environment.
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.
Veeam software is the sponsor of the rvtools download.
I have used and blogged about rvtools for many years but only recently i took the time to rtfm and realised i was missing out on some valuable functionality hidden in the installation folder are some very useful utilities and scripts that can aid you in exporting the incredible information it provides.
Rvtools exporting information introduction.
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This is a free tool created by rob de veij and it works well for all vmware vsphere and v13 computing environments.
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.
Rvtools is a windows net 4 6 1 application which uses vmware vsphere management.
Rvtools now reports storage which is wasted by zombie vms vmdks templates and snapshots.
You can find this information on the vhealth tab page.
The latest version is of rvtools is 3 11 7 2 powercli vmware powercli is a command line and scripting tool built on windows powershell and provides more than 600 cmdlets for managing and automating vsphere vcloud vrealize operations manager vsan nsx t vmware cloud on aws vmware hcx vmware site recovery manager and vmware horizon.
It connects to your vcenter server to gather this information for you.
If you guys pay me a dime for every gigabyte of wasted storage found by rvtools you will make me rich j.
The information obtained from the vm is very comprehensive ranging from the power state of the vm to the information of the fault.
