<strong>Flish Picks</strong>  - Top 10 Absolutely Free vSphere Applications and Utilities chosen by yours truly.

Number 6 - RV Tools by Rob de Veijo

RV tools is a very well written utility that gives you great insight into your vSphere environment.

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To be clear this is not a real time monitoring tool.  It‘s a “what is the current state of my vSphere Infrastructure and VMs” tool.  Complete with nice tabbed interface and data column views.

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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.

One of my favorite tabs is the vHealth tab. It lets you know things like if your VM tools are out of date, active Snap Shot status,  and even if you have any possible Zombie VMs.

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The last thing you want is to help the Zombie VM Apocalypse come sooner than it has to.

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Stay tuned as we count down the rest of the <strong>Flish Picks</strong>  - Top 10 Absolutely Free vSphere Applications and Utilities.

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