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Rob de Veij has released a new version of his tool RVTools!

Interacting with vCenter 2.x or ESX 3.x, vSphere or ESX 4, RVTools is able to list and export information about cpu, memory, disks, nics, cd-rom, floppy drives, snapshots, VMware tools, hosts datastores and health checks.

New in this version:

• RVTools is now using the vSphere 4 SDK. The SDK has been enhanced to support new features of ESX/ESXi 4.0 and vCenter Server 4.0 systems.
• On vNetwork tab the Vmxnet2 information is improved (due to the new SDK).
• The name of the vCenter server or ESX host to which RVTools is connected is now visible in the windows title.
• New menu option: Export All. Which exports all the data to csv files.
• Export All function can also started from the command line. The output files are written to a unique directory in the users documents directory.
• New vSwitch tab. The vSwitch tab displays for each virtual switch the name of the switch, number of ports, free ports, promiscuous mode value, mac address changed allowed value, forged transmits allowed value, traffic shapping flag, width, peak and burst, teaming policy, reverse policy flag, notify switch value, rolling order, offload flag, TSO support flag, zero copy transmits support flag, maximum transmission unit size, host name, datacenter name and cluster name.
• New vPort tab. The vPort tab displays for each port the name of the port, the name of the virtual switch where the port is defined, VLAN ID, promiscuous mode value, mac address changed allowed value, forged transmits allowed value, traffic shapping flag, width, peak and burst, teaming policy, reverse policy flag, notify switch value, rolling order, offload flag, TSO support flag, zero copy transmits support flag, size, host name, datacenter name and cluster name.
• Filter is now also working on vHost, vSwitch and vPort tab.
• Health check change: number of virtual machines per core check is changed to number of virtual CPUs per core.

It's a really handy tool so maybe you will try it?

For more information: http://www.robware.net/

Ciao!