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RVTools 4.3.2 November 5, 2022

Index

RVTools.................................................................................................................................................... 5 vInfo..................................................................................................................................................... 6 vCpu................................................................................................................................................... 15 vMemory ........................................................................................................................................... 18 vDisk .................................................................................................................................................. 22 vPartition ........................................................................................................................................... 27 vNetwork ........................................................................................................................................... 30 vCD .................................................................................................................................................... 34 vUSB................................................................................................................................................... 37 vSnapshot .......................................................................................................................................... 40 vTools ................................................................................................................................................ 43 vSource .............................................................................................................................................. 50 vRP..................................................................................................................................................... 52 vCluster.............................................................................................................................................. 59 vHost.................................................................................................................................................. 64 vHBA .................................................................................................................................................. 69 vNic .................................................................................................................................................... 70 vSwitch .............................................................................................................................................. 72 vPort .................................................................................................................................................. 75 dvSwitch ............................................................................................................................................ 78 dvPort ................................................................................................................................................ 82 vSC+VMK ........................................................................................................................................... 87 vDatastore ......................................................................................................................................... 89 vMultipath ......................................................................................................................................... 92 vLicense ............................................................................................................................................. 94 vFileInfo ............................................................................................................................................. 96 vHealth .............................................................................................................................................. 97 VMWARE VM Performance optimization considerations ................................................................. 98 DISK I/O ......................................................................................................................................... 98 In-Memory VM performance ........................................................................................................ 98 Health properties .............................................................................................................................. 99 Preferences...................................................................................................................................... 100

Communication ................................................................................................................................... 101

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Permissions.......................................................................................................................................... 101 MB versus MiB..................................................................................................................................... 102 Deserialize error .................................................................................................................................. 103 Password encryption ........................................................................................................................... 105 Commandline parameters................................................................................................................... 106

Start RVTools with pass-through autentication .............................................................................. 106 Start RVTools with userid password................................................................................................ 106 Start RVTools with pass-through authentication, and export all to csv.......................................... 106 Start RVTools with userid password, and export all to csv ............................................................. 106 Start RVTools with pass-through authentication, and export all to xlsx......................................... 106 Start RVTools with userid password, and export all to xlsx ............................................................ 107 Start RVTools with userid password, and export a single tab page to xlsx ..................................... 107 Start RVTools with userid password, and export a single tab page to csv...................................... 109 Commandline switches ....................................................................................................................... 111 Powershell batch example .................................................................................................................. 112 RVToolsMergeExcelFiles...................................................................................................................... 113 Log4net properties .............................................................................................................................. 114 Version information ............................................................................................................................ 115 Version 4.3.2 (November 5, 2022) .................................................................................................. 115 Version 4.3.1 (February 5, 2022) ..................................................................................................... 115 Version 4.2.2 (December 29, 2021)................................................................................................. 115 Version 4.2.1 (December 4, 2021)................................................................................................... 115 Version 4.1.4 (June 14, 2021) .......................................................................................................... 115 Version 4.1.3 (April 11, 2021).......................................................................................................... 116 Version 4.1.2 (April 5, 2021)............................................................................................................ 116 Version 4.0.7 (December 19, 2020)................................................................................................. 117 Version 4.0.6 (August 29, 2020) ...................................................................................................... 117 Version 4.0.4 (May 1, 2020) ............................................................................................................ 117 Version 3.11.9 (May 26, 2019) ........................................................................................................ 118 Version 3.11.8 (May 10, 2019) ........................................................................................................ 118 Version 3.11.7 (March 15, 2019) ..................................................................................................... 118 Version 3.11.6 (March 9, 2019) ....................................................................................................... 118 Version 3.10.2 (June, 2018) ............................................................................................................. 119 Version 3.10 (February, 2018)......................................................................................................... 119

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Version 3.9.5 (April, 2017)............................................................................................................... 119 Version 3.9.3 (March, 2017) ............................................................................................................ 120 Version 3.9 (February, 2017) ........................................................................................................... 120 Version 3.8.6 (July, 2016) ................................................................................................................ 120 Version 3.8 (March, 2016) ............................................................................................................... 120 Version 3.7 (March, 2015) ............................................................................................................... 121 Version 3.6 (February, 2014) ........................................................................................................... 122 Version 3.5 (March, 2013) ............................................................................................................... 122 Version 3.4 (September, 2012) ....................................................................................................... 122 Version 3.3 (April, 2012).................................................................................................................. 123 Version 3.2 (October, 2011) ............................................................................................................ 123 Version 3.1 (April, 2011).................................................................................................................. 123 Version 3.0 (January, 2011) ............................................................................................................. 123 Version 2.9.5 (September, 2010) .................................................................................................... 124 Version 2.9.1 (May 4, 2010) ............................................................................................................ 124 Version 2.9.1 (May 4, 2010) ............................................................................................................ 124 Version 2.9 (April 2010)................................................................................................................... 124 Version 2.8.1 (February 2010)......................................................................................................... 125 Version 2.8 (January 2010) .............................................................................................................. 125 Version 2.7.3 (December 19, 2009)................................................................................................. 125 Version 2.7.1 (November 19, 2009) ................................................................................................ 126 Version 2.7 (November, 2009) ........................................................................................................ 126 Version 2.6 (September, 2009) ....................................................................................................... 126 Version 2.5.5 (June 27, 2009) .......................................................................................................... 126 Version 2.5.1 (April 15, 2009).......................................................................................................... 127 Version 2.5 (April 2009)................................................................................................................... 127 Version 2.4.1 (March 18, 2009) ....................................................................................................... 128 Version 2.4 (March 2009) ................................................................................................................ 128 Version 2.3.1 (February 11, 2009) ................................................................................................... 128 Version 2.3 (February 2009) ............................................................................................................ 129 Version 2.2 (January 2009) .............................................................................................................. 129 Version 2.1 (November 2008) ......................................................................................................... 129 Version 2.0 (October 2008) ............................................................................................................. 130 Version 1.1 (May 2008) ................................................................................................................... 130

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RVTools

RVTools is a Windows .NET 4.6.2 application which uses VMware vSphere Management SDK 7.0U3 and CIS REST API to display information about your virtual environments. Interacting with VirtualCenter 4.x, ESX Server 4.x, VirtualCenter 5.x, ESX Server 5.x, VirtualCenter 6.x, ESX Server 6.x, VirtualCenter 7.0 and ESX server 7.0 RVTools is able to list information about VMs, CPU, Memory, Disks, Partitions, Network, CD drives, USB devices. Snapshots, VMware tools, vCenter server,Resource pools, Clusters, ESX hosts, HBAs, Nics, Switches, Ports, Distributed Switches, Distributed Ports, Service consoles, VM Kernels, Datastores, multipath info, license info and health checks. The information can be exported to csv and xlsx file(s). With a xlsx merge utility it's possible to merge muliple vCenter xlsx reports to a single xlsx report.

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