RVTools 3.10 Released
RVTools is one of my favorite tools to get information out of a ESXi host or vCenter. Thanks to Rob de Veij for putting time into making this tool.
This new version has a lot fo cool new features:
what's new:
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Upgraded RVTools solution to Visual Studio 2017
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Upgraded RVTools to .Net Framework version 4.6.1
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Upgraded Log4net to version 2.0.8, Waffle.AD to version 1.8.3 and NPOI to version 2.3.0
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Connection error when TLSv1.0 and TLSv1.1 are disabled and only TLSv1.2 is enabled is solved by using .Net Framework 4.6.1
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vInfo tab page new columns: The latency-sensitivity setting of the virtual machine, Change Block Tracking (CBT) and disk.EnableUUID values
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vDisk tab page new columns: SCSI label, unit number and sharedBus
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vHost tab page new columns: Assigned License(s), ATS heartbeat, ATS locking values. 0 = disabled 1 = enabled, Host Power Policy shortname, CPU Power Management current policy and CPU power hardware support
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When Export to xlsx is executed a metadata worksheet with version number of RVTools and date time stamp is added to the output xlsx file
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All columns in the RVTools export xlsx file(s) now have a filter
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When export to csv newline characters are replaced by spaces
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When started from cli and login fails an error message and login box was displayed. Now RVTools will exit with exit code -1, without showing the error message and login form.
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Added an example PowerShell script with which you can merge RVTools export xlsx files
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Added a example PowerShell script to start Export all to xlsx for multiple vCenters
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vDatastore tab page: For NFS datastores the address column is now filled with remote host and path info
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vDatastore tab page new columns: Datastore Cluster Name, Cluster capacity and Cluster free space
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The upper limit on the Health check for number of VMs on a datastore is now 9999
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vHealth tab page: new column "message type" which can be used as a filter in Excel
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vHealth tab page: hbrdisk.RDID files are no longer reported as possible zombie files
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vHealth tab page: low disk space messages no also show the free space in MB.
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All tab pages: Refresh or auto-refresh will respect your sort order
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CLI export2xls parameters changed to export2xlsx (old parameter will still work)
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Bug Fix: invalid "Horizontal Alignment" value in xlsx style sheet.
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Bug Fix: Calculation of total snapshot size was not always correct
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Bug Fix: Child snapshot hierarchy was not always correct
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Default installation directory is changed to C:\Program Files (x86)\RobWare\RVTools without the version number