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RVTools is a windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts. Interacting with VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX Server 3.5, ESX Server 3i, ESX Server 4i, VirtualCenter 4.0, ESX server 4.0, VirtualCenter 4.1, ESX Server 4.1, VirtualCenter 5.0, VirtualCenter Appliance or ESX Server 5 RVTools is able to list information about VMs, CPU, Memory, Disks, Partitions, Network, Floppy drives, CD drives, Snapshots, VMware tools, ESX hosts, HBAs, Nics, Switches, Ports, Distributed Switches, Distributed Ports, Service consoles, VM Kernels, Datastores and health checks. With RVTools you can disconnect the cd-rom or floppy drives from the virtual machines and RVTools is able to update the VMware Tools installed inside each virtual machine to the latest version.

What’s new in version 3.3;

• GetWebResponse timeout value changed from 5 minutes to 10 minutes (for very big environments)
• New tabpage with HBA information
• On vDatastore tab the definition of the Provisioned MB and In Use MB columns was confusing! This is changed now.
• RVToolsSendMail accepts now multiple recipients (semicolon is used as separator)
• Folder information of VMs and Templates are now visible on vInfo tabpage
• Bugfix: data in comboboxes on filter form are now sorted
• Bugfix: Problem with api version 2.5.0 solved
• Bugfix: Improved exception handling on vCPU tab.
• Bugfix: Improved exception handling on vDatastore tab.

Kudos to Rob de Veij for this awesome tool!!

You can download the RVTools 3.3 from Rob’s website at robware.net

NOTE: I work for Login Consultants, but I don’t get paid to blog about the VSI, I just want to let you know that version 3 of the VSI has been released.

So what is the VSI…?

The Login Virtual Session Indexer or in short the VSI is a test and benchmarking tool/software, which could be used to stress test environments based on Microsoft Terminal Server, Citrix and Virtual Desktop Infrastructures solutions like VMware View or Citrix XenDesktop.

The VSI will simulate user workloads and is capable to test and predict the effects of future changes like; software changes, hardware changes and a growing number of users on an environment.

With this release the Login VSI is capable to test environments up to 100.000 users workloads.

What’s new in version 3…

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