RVTools - Excellent VM Management Tool
I’ve been neglecting the site recently due to the day job commitments, so I’m going to make the effort and get a few articles up over the next few days.
I was trawling my igoogle feeds as I do every lunchtime and came across an article by Duncan Epping over at www.yellow-bricks.com on a tool called RVTools written by Rob de Veij.
In essence it’s a .NET 2.0 application that utilises the VI SDK to display information on your virtual machines. You can access ESX 3.x directly or connect to VirtualCenter 2.x and list information on your VMs such as CPU, Memory, disks, nics, cd-rom, floppy drives, snapshots and vmware tools.
I gave it a quick go this lunchtime and am very impressed, it provides a good deal of information and the snapshot, vmware tools and CD-Rom tabs are worth their weight in gold. I’ve always been frustrated when trying to locate which VM is currently connected to an ISO image that I want to move or delete, this tool was perfect for this problem. I found that quite a few of my colleagues aren’t the best at disconnecting CD-Roms and I can include myself in that group as I always forget. Nice to have a tool that simplifies the process.
Click the link to download a copy of V2.1 of RVTools
