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.This is an all-time favorite tool of virtualization admin.

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, Floppy drives,CD drives, 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 multiple vCenter xlsx reports to a single xlsx report.

Release Note for Version 4.0.4 (May 1, 2020)

• Upgraded RVTools solution to use VMware vSphere Management SDK 7.0
• Upgraded RVTools solution to use CIS REST API, available since vSphere 6.5, to get tag information
• vInfo tab page new columns: Virtual machine tags and min Required EVC Mode Key
• vCPU tab page new columns: Virtual machine tags
• vMemory tab page new columns: Virtual machine tags and Memory Reservation Locked To Max
• vDisk tab page new columns: Virtual machine tags
• vPartition tab page new columns: Virtual machine tags
• vCD tab page new columns: Virtual machine tags
• vFloppy tab page new columns: Virtual machine tags
• vNetwork tab page new columns: Virtual machine tags
• vSnapshot tab page new columns: Virtual machine tags
• vTools tab page new columns: Virtual machine tags
• vRP tab page new columns: Resource Pool tags and object ID
• vCluster tab page new columns: Cluster tags, custom attributes and object ID
• vHost tab page new columns: Host tags, in Maintenance Mode and in Quarantine Mode
• dvSwitch tab page new columns: Distributed VirtualSwitch tags, custom attributes and object ID
• dvPort tab page new columns: Distributed VirtualSwitch Port Group tags and object ID
• vDatastore tab page new columns: Datastore tags, custom attributes and object ID
• Preference extra checkbox for “Exclude tags”
• CLI new parameter -ExcludeTags

Additional following bugs also got fixed in the latest version

• Bug fix: removed column “Config Checksum” from vInfo tab page.This Base64Binary field was sometimes the cause for a XML deserialize error!
• Bug fix: not all snapshots from all snapshot siblings where displayed
• Bug fix: preference setting “Exclude Annotation fields” value was overwritten.
• Bug fix: Name on vRP tab page was full path
• Bug fix: In example RVToolsBatchMultipleVCs.ps1 script parameters changed for RVToolsMergeExcelFiles.exe
• Bug fix: vSphere 7, “Unhandled exception: Input string was not in a correct format.”

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Its also work looking at RVTools Analyser which is designed to import RVTools Excel Files and save this information in a Database and finally display it in a friendly way.

These are the main functions of RVTools Analyser :

• Display complete VCenter Architecture : Number of Clusters, number of ESX, number of VMs (Windows, Linux) and number of Datastores.Information is displayed in “Tree Views”, tables and various graphs.
• Multiple VCenter Inventory (agregation of more than one VCenter).
• Detailed Asset Inventory classified by Operating System.
• Display “Operating System End of Support” for Linux, Windows and ESX.End of Support Forecasting on 3, 6, 9 or 12 next months.
• VCenter Trends : Evolution of the number of Clusters, ESX, Datastores, VMs, vCPU, vRAM and Disks.
• ESX Summary : You can see in a single window all ESX information.
• Calculation of Allocated Resources, introducing Personnal Ratios (CPU and RAM) and Custom Failovers.
• Disaster Recovery Simulations, with one or more VCenters.
• Storage Views : Total Disk Sizes by Clusters, ESX, VMs and Datastores.
• Statistics Reports for ESX and VMS.
• Detailled Views for Clusters, ESX, VM and Datastores.
• Display Disk and Partitions with Threshold Alerting.
• Display Ports and Switches.
• Generation of HTML Reports.
• Personnal configuration parameters :
• – Thresholds for Filesystem and Logical Units
• – Selection of HTML Viewer, RVTools command line
• – Screen colors, buttons
• – Colors and aspect of Graphs

RVTools Analyser Download Link