Documentation - RVTools

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Index

RVTools.................................................................................................................................................... 5 vInfo..................................................................................................................................................... 5 vCpu................................................................................................................................................... 14 vMemory ........................................................................................................................................... 17 vDisk .................................................................................................................................................. 21 vPartition ........................................................................................................................................... 26 vNetwork ........................................................................................................................................... 29 vCD .................................................................................................................................................... 33 vUSB................................................................................................................................................... 36 vSnapshot .......................................................................................................................................... 39 vTools ................................................................................................................................................ 42 vRP..................................................................................................................................................... 49 vCluster.............................................................................................................................................. 56 vHost.................................................................................................................................................. 61 vHBA .................................................................................................................................................. 66 vNic .................................................................................................................................................... 67 vSwitch .............................................................................................................................................. 69 vPort .................................................................................................................................................. 72 dvSwitch ............................................................................................................................................ 75 dvPort ................................................................................................................................................ 79 vSC+VMK ........................................................................................................................................... 84 vDatastore ......................................................................................................................................... 86 vMultipath ......................................................................................................................................... 89 vLicense ............................................................................................................................................. 91 vFileInfo ............................................................................................................................................. 92 vHealth .............................................................................................................................................. 93 Health properties .............................................................................................................................. 94 Preferences........................................................................................................................................ 95

Communication ..................................................................................................................................... 96 Permissions............................................................................................................................................ 96 MB versus MiB....................................................................................................................................... 97 Deserialize error .................................................................................................................................... 98 Password encryption ........................................................................................................................... 100

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Commandline parameters................................................................................................................... 101 Start RVTools with pass-through autentication .............................................................................. 101 Start RVTools with userid password................................................................................................ 101 Start RVTools with pass-through authentication, and export all to csv.......................................... 101 Start RVTools with userid password, and export all to csv ............................................................. 101 Start RVTools with pass-through authentication, and export all to xlsx......................................... 101 Start RVTools with userid password, and export all to xlsx ............................................................ 102 Start RVTools with userid password, and export a single tab page to xlsx ..................................... 102 Start RVTools with userid password, and export a single tab page to csv...................................... 104

Commandline switches ....................................................................................................................... 106 Powershell batch example .................................................................................................................. 107 RVToolsMergeExcelFiles...................................................................................................................... 108 Log4net properties .............................................................................................................................. 109 Version information ............................................................................................................................ 110

Version 4.1.4 (June 14, 2021) .......................................................................................................... 110 Version 4.1.3 (April 11, 2021).......................................................................................................... 110 Version 4.1.2 (April 5, 2021)............................................................................................................ 110 Version 4.0.7 (December 19, 2020)................................................................................................. 111 Version 4.0.6 (August 29, 2020) ...................................................................................................... 111 Version 4.0.4 (May 1, 2020) ............................................................................................................ 111 Version 3.11.9 (May 26, 2019) ........................................................................................................ 112 Version 3.11.8 (May 10, 2019) ........................................................................................................ 112 Version 3.11.7 (March 15, 2019) ..................................................................................................... 112 Version 3.11.6 (March 9, 2019) ....................................................................................................... 112 Version 3.10.2 (June, 2018) ............................................................................................................. 113 Version 3.10 (February, 2018)......................................................................................................... 113 Version 3.9.5 (April, 2017)............................................................................................................... 114 Version 3.9.3 (March, 2017) ............................................................................................................ 114 Version 3.9 (February, 2017) ........................................................................................................... 114 Version 3.8.6 (July, 2016) ................................................................................................................ 114 Version 3.8 (March, 2016) ............................................................................................................... 114 Version 3.7 (March, 2015) ............................................................................................................... 115 Version 3.6 (February, 2014) ........................................................................................................... 116 Version 3.5 (March, 2013) ............................................................................................................... 116

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Version 3.4 (September, 2012) ....................................................................................................... 116 Version 3.3 (April, 2012).................................................................................................................. 117 Version 3.2 (October, 2011) ............................................................................................................ 117 Version 3.1 (April, 2011).................................................................................................................. 117 Version 3.0 (January, 2011) ............................................................................................................. 118 Version 2.9.5 (September, 2010) .................................................................................................... 118 Version 2.9.1 (May 4, 2010) ............................................................................................................ 118 Version 2.9.1 (May 4, 2010) ............................................................................................................ 118 Version 2.9 (April 2010)................................................................................................................... 118 Version 2.8.1 (February 2010)......................................................................................................... 119 Version 2.8 (January 2010) .............................................................................................................. 119 Version 2.7.3 (December 19, 2009)................................................................................................. 119 Version 2.7.1 (November 19, 2009) ................................................................................................ 120 Version 2.7 (November, 2009) ........................................................................................................ 120 Version 2.6 (September, 2009) ....................................................................................................... 120 Version 2.5.5 (June 27, 2009) .......................................................................................................... 121 Version 2.5.1 (April 15, 2009).......................................................................................................... 121 Version 2.5 (April 2009)................................................................................................................... 121 Version 2.4.1 (March 18, 2009) ....................................................................................................... 122 Version 2.4 (March 2009) ................................................................................................................ 122 Version 2.3.1 (February 11, 2009) ................................................................................................... 122 Version 2.3 (February 2009)............................................................................................................ 123 Version 2.2 (January 2009) .............................................................................................................. 123 Version 2.1 (November 2008) ......................................................................................................... 123 Version 2.0 (October 2008) ............................................................................................................. 124 Version 1.1 (May 2008) ................................................................................................................... 124 Version 1.0 (April 2008)................................................................................................................... 124

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RVTools

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. 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, 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.

vInfo

The "vInfo" tab displays for each virtual machine the virtual machine name, powerstate, template, SRM Placeholder, config status, DNS name, connection state, guest state, heartbeat, consolidation needed, power on date / time, suspend date / time, creation date / time, change version, number of cpu's, latency-sensitivity, amount of memory, number of nics, number of virtual disks, min Required EVC Mode Key, disk.EnableUUID, CBT, primary IP address, connected networks, number of monitors, video Ram KiB, resource pool, folder name, vApp name, DAS protection, fault tolerance State, fault tolerance latency status, fault tolerance band width, fault tolerance secondary latency, provisioned storage, used storage, unshared storage, HA restart priority, HA isolation response, HA VM Monitoring, Cluster rule(s), Cluster rule name(s), install Boot Required, Boot delay, Boot retry delay, Boot retry enabled, Boot BIOS setup, Firmware, HW version, HW upgrade status, HW upgrade policy, HW target, configuration path, log directory, snapshot directory, suspend directory, annotation, custom fields, datacenter name, cluster name, ESX host name, operating system name according to the config file, operating system name acoording to the VMware tools, virtual machine ID, VM UUID, VI SDK server type, VI SDK API version, virtual machine tags, VI SDK Server and VI SDK UUID.

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