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RVTools
RVTools is a windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display information
about your virtual machines and ESX hosts. Interacting with VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX
Server 3.5, ESX Server 3i, ESX Server 4i, VirtualCenter 4.0, ESX Server 4.0,
VirtualCenter 4.1, ESX Server 4.1, VirtualCenter 5.0, VirtualCenter Appliance or ESX
Server 5 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.

Version information

Version 3.3 (April, 2012)

 GetWebResponse timeout value changed from 5 minutes to 10 minutes (for very
big environments)
 New tabpage with HBA information
 On vDatastore tab the definition of the Provisioned MB and In Use MB columns
was confusing! This is changed now.
 RVToolsSendMail accepts now multiple recipients (semicolon is used as separator)
 Folder information of VMs and Templates are now visible on vInfo tabpage
 Bugfix: data in comboboxes on filter form are now sorted
 Bugfix: Problem with api version 2.5.0 solved
 Bugfix: Improved exception handling on vCPU tab.
 Bugfix: Improved exception handling on vDatastore tab.

Version 3.2 (October, 2011)

 New tabpage with distributed switch information
 New tabpage with distributed port information
 It's now possible to export a single tabpage to an excel file from the command
line.
 It's now possible to save the filter. The next time RVTools is started it will use the
filter automatically.
 Bugfix: On vSnapshot tab the displayed filename and filesize are not always
correct.
 Bugfix: Improved exception handling on vPort tab.

Version 3.1 (April, 2011)

 Logon form tab order rearranged
 Logon form will remember your last selected host / vCenter server
 On vInfo new fields Provisioned, Used and shared storage
 On vInfo new fields install Boot Required, number of Virtual Disks
 On vInfo new fields Fault Tolerance State, FT Latency Status, FT Band width and
FT Secondary Latency
 On vInfo new field 128-bit SMBIOS UUID of the virtual machine.
 On vDatastore new fields Total provisioned, Used and shared storage

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 On vDatastore new fields SIOC enabled flag and congested threshold value
 On vDisk new field disk persistence mode.
 On vNetwork all IP addresses of adapter are now visible
 On vMemory new field distributed Memory Entitlement
 On vCPU new fields static Cpu Entitlement and field distributed Cpu Entitlement
 On vHost new fields Current EVC mode and Max EVC mode
 New batch command line parameters -u user and -p password
 Bugfix: custom fields not always visible on vSnapshot tab.
 Bugfix: Export to Excel, some numeric columns are saved as text instead of
numbers
 RVToolsBatch.cmd with send by email example deployed in RVTools program file
directory

Version 3.0 (January, 2011)

 Pass-through authentication implemented. Allows you to use your logged on
Windows credentials to automatically logon.
 All numeric columns are now formated to make it more readable.
 On vInfo the columns Commited, Uncommited, Shared and on vSnapshot the
column size are now formated in MBs instead of bytes.
 New tabpage created with service console and VMKernel information.
 Now using vSphere Web Services SDK 4.1 which supports the new features
available in vSphere 4.1
 Export to csv file now uses Windows regional separator
 using NPOI to make it possible to write directly to xls files without the need for a
installed Excel version on the system.
 New menu function to write all information to one excel workbook with for each
tabpage a new worksheet.
 new command line options. Check the documentation!

Version 2.9.5 (September, 2010)

 On vInfo tab new field: Guest heartbeat status. The heartbeat status is classified
as: gray - VMware Tools are not installed or not running, red - no heartbeat,
guest operating system may have stopped responding. yellow -intermittent
heartbeat, may be due to guest load. green - guest operating system is
responding normally
 On vMemory tab new fields: Ballooned memory, consumed overhead memory,
private memory, shared memory, swapped memory and static memory
entitlement
 On vDatastore tab new field: Full device address (controller, target, device)
 On vInfo tab new fields: Commited storage, uncommited storage and unshared
storage
 Bug fix! A semicolon in the annotations fields are no longer a problem for the
export functions
 Bug fix! Health check "Zombie vmdk" problems solved
 Bug fix! Health check "inconsistent foldername" problems solved
 Bug fix! On vport tab the column "notify switch" value solved
 Bug fix! Sort problem on vNic tab on column "speed" solved

Version 2.9.1 (May 4, 2010)

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 Bug fix! On vNic tab unhandled exception when link is down.

Version 2.9.1 (May 4, 2010)

 Bug fix! On vNic tab unhandled exception when link is down.
Description in VI API Reference is excelent "The current link state of the physical
network adapter. If this object is not set, then the link is down". Sorry guys this
situation was not tested by me. This is fixed now.

Version 2.9 (April 2010)

 On vHost tab new fields: Vendor and model.
 On vHost tab new fields: Bios version and Bios release date.
 On vInfo tab new field: VM overall size in bytes (visible when using VI API 4.0)
 On vSnapshot tab new fields: Snapshot filename and size in bytes (visible when
using VI API 4.0)
 New vNic tab. The vNic tab displays for each physival nic on the host the following
fields: Host, datacenter, cluster name, network device, driver, speed, duplex
setting, mac address, PCI and wakeon switch.
 Layout change on vHost, vSwitch and vPort tabpages. They now all start with host
name, datacenter and cluster name.
 The commandline function ExportAll extended with an extra optional parameter.
It's now possible to specify the directory where the export files are written.

Version 2.8.1 (February 2010)

 On vHost tab new field: number of running vCPUs
 On vSphere VMs in vApp where not displayed.
 Filter not working correct when annotations or custum fields contains null value.
 When NTP server(s) = null the time info fields are not displayed on the vHost
tabpage.
 When datastore name or virtual machine name contains spaces the inconsistent
foldername check was not working correct.
 Tools health check now only executed for running VMs.

Version 2.8 (January 2010)

 On vHost tab field "# VMs" now only powered on VMs are counted.
 On vHost tab field "VMs per core" now only powered on VMs are counted.
 On vHost tab field "vCPUs per core" now only powered on VMs are counted.
 On vDatastore tab field "# VMs" now only calculated for VM's which are powered
on.
 Health check "Number of running virtual CPUs per core" now only powered on VMs
are counted.
 Health check "Number of running VMs per datastore" now only powered on VMs
are counted.
 During Installation there will be an application event source created for RVTools.
This to fix some security related problems.
 Some users run into a timeout exception from the SDK Web server. The default
web service timeout value is now changed to a higher value.
 New fields on vHost tab: NTP Server(s), time zone information, Hyper Threading
information (available and active), Boot time, DNS Servers, DHCP flag, Domain
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 New Health Check: Inconsistent folder names.

 Improved exception handling on vDisk, vSwitch and vPort tab pages.

Version 2.7.3 (December 19, 2009)

 With the help of Ciaran Garvey, Benj Starratt and Shane Wendel I was able to
improve the zombie file discovery. Thanks to all.
 Files in .snapshot directories are no longer reported as zombies.
 CTK files are no longer reported as zombies.
 The problems with VM files which are placed in the root directory are now solved.
 Under some condition the filter screen terminated with an exception. This is fixed
now.
 New fields on vDisk tab: ThinProvisioned and split.
 New field on vTools tab: Virtual machine hardware version.

Version 2.7.1 (November 19, 2009)

 15 minutes after the release of version 2.7 I received an email from Kyle Ross
who told me that RVTools was showing the cos and esxconsole VM's as zombies!
This problem is now fixed! Thanks again Kyle for alerting me so soon.

Version 2.7 (November, 2009)

 RVTools now reports storage which is wasted by zombie VMs, VMDKs, templates
and snapshots. You can find this information on the vHealth tab page.
If you guys pay me a dime for every gigabyte of wasted storage, found by
RVTools, you will make me rich .
 Due to the fact that the search all datastores task can take a long time to
complete, RVTools now use a separate thread to collect this information.
 The default percentage value of “free datastore capacity” is changed from 10% to
15%.
 Bug fix! If a snapshot is more than two levels deep, only the first two are visible.
With the input from Mike Price this problem is now solved! Thanks again Mike.

Version 2.6 (September, 2009)

 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

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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.

Version 2.5.5 (June 27, 2009)

 Changed health check properties are not set at start of the program. The program
will use the default values until you start and transmit the properties screen. This
problem is now fixed.
 Since version 2.5 the vDisk tab displays information that is aggregated from
“config.hardware” and “guest” information. That was not a good idea! If there is
more than one partition on a virtual disk the displayed information is wrong.
To solve this problem I now split this information in a vDisk tab which will show
only the information that is provided by the “config.hardware” information and a
new vPartition tab that will display the “guest” information.
 Better exception handling on filter.
 New fields on vHost tab: Number of CPUs, Cores per CPU and virtual CPUs per
Core.

Version 2.5.1 (April 15, 2009)

Bug fix! Better exception handling on the vDisk and vNetwork tab pages.
With the help from Alan Civita this problem is now solved! Thanks again Alan.

Version 2.5 (April 2009)

 The installation file now understands how to upgrade without the need to uninstall
the previous version first.
 The documentation file is now also deployed to the program directory.
You can start the Adobe reader from the RVtools “help” menu.
 New fields on vInfo tab: Network #1 to Network #4
 New fields on vDisk tab: Level, Shares, SCSI Controller, Unit id and vmdk path
name. I’m now using the “config.hardware” information to fill this tab page. In the
previous versions of the program I was using the guest information which have a
strong dependency with the VMware tools.
 New fields on vNetwork tab: Adapter type and Mac Address type.
I’m now using the “config.hardware” information to fill this tab page. In the
previous versions of the program I was using the guest information which have a
strong dependency with the VMware tools.
 New field on vHost tab: Number of VMs per core
 New tab! vHealth. Displays health check messages.
There are 8 possible “Health Check” messages:
1. VM has a CDROM device connected!
2. VM has a Floppy device connected!
3. VM has an active snapshot!
4. VMware tools are out of date, not running or not installed!
5. On disk xx is yy% disk space available! The threshold value is zz%
6. On datastore xx is yy% disk space available! The threshold value is zz%
7. There are xx VMs active per core on this host. The threshold value is zz
8. There are xx VMs active on this datastore. The threshold value is zz

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 You can set your “own” health check threshold values in the “Health Check
Properties” form.

Version 2.4.1 (March 18, 2009)

The new filter throws an exception when there are ESX hosts which do not belong to any
cluster. With the help from Mario Vinet this problem is now solved! Thanks again Mario.

Version 2.4 (March 2009)

 On the vDatastore tab you can now see which hosts are connected to the
datastore.
 The data on the vInfo, vCpu, vMemory, vDisk, vFloppy, vCD, vSnapshot and
vTools tab pages can now be filtered.

Version 2.3.1 (February 11, 2009)

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 System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type

'VimApi.NasDatastoreInfo' to type 'VimApi.VmfsDatastoreInfo' bug on vDatastore
tab fixed!

Version 2.3 (February 2009)

 New vHost tab. The “vHost” tab displays for each host the name, datacenter
name, cluster name, CPU model, CPU speed, number of CPU’s, CPU usage %,
total amount of memory, memory usage %, memory reserved for the service
console, number of NIC’s, number of HBA’s, number of VM’s running on this host
and the ESX version of this host.
 All tab pages (except the datastore tab) now also display the datacenter name
and cluster name.
 New VMFS “Block size”, “Max Blocks”, “Number of extents”, “Major Version
number”, “Version string” and “VMFS upgradeable” fields on the vDatastore tab.
 New “Virtual machine version string” field on the vInfo tab page.
 Divide by zero bug on vDatastore tab is now fixed.
 The vInfo fields “upgrade policy” and “Sync.time with host” which where
introduced in version 2.2 caused some problems in combination with the 2.0
version of the VI API. This is now fixed!

Version 2.2 (January 2009)

 New vDatastore tab. The “vDatastore” tab displays for each datastore the name,
connectivity status, file system type, number of virtual machines on the
datastore, total capacity in mb’s, free capacity in mb’s, multiple host access
indication and the url.
 Your custom defined fields are now visible on most of the tabpages
 New menu option “export data to cvs file”
 New “upgrade policy” field on vTools tabpage
 New “Sync time with host” field on vTools tabpage
 The field “OS” which is displayed on most of the tabpages now displays the name
of the guest OS according to the VMware Tools. In previous versions we used the
configuration value. The vTools tab displays both “OS” fields.

Version 2.1 (November 2008)

 Overall performance improvements.
 New vInfo tab. The “vInfo” tab displays for each virtual machine the hostname of
the guest, power state, power on date / time, number of cpu’s, amount of
memory, number of nics, configuration path, annotation, ESX host name,
operating system name and VI SDK object id.
 New CPU tab. The “vCpu” tab displays for each virtual machine number of cpu’s,
max cpu, overall cpu usage, shares, reservations, limits, annotations, ESX host
name and operating system name.
 New Memory tab. The “vMemory” tab displays for each virtual machine the
memory size, max memory usage, memory overhead, guest memory, host
memory, shares, reservations , limits, annotations, ESX host name and operating
system name
 New snapshot tab. The “vSnapshot” tab displays for each snapshot the name,
description, date / time of the snapshot, quiesced value, state value, annotations,
ESX host name and operating system name.

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 The header text is automatically included after a copy and past action. This
version 1.1 functionality was “lost” in version 2.0.

Version 2.0 (October 2008)

 RVTools has five new tabpages which give you information about your virtual
machines. RVTools displays information about cpu, memory, disks, nics, cd-rom,
floppy drives and VMware tools. With RVTools you can disconnect the cd-rom or
floppy drives from the virtual machines. It’s also possible to start an upgrade of
the VMware Tools.

Version 1.1 (May 2008)

 You can copy the selected datagrid values with ctrl-c to the clipboard. The header
text is automatically included. After this you can paste the clipboard data to your
favorite editor.
 The login form remembers the names and/or IP addresses of the entered ESX
hosts and/or VirtualCenter servers.You can use a filter to display only the
"templates" or "virtual machines".
 Annotations "notes" field is visible in the datagrid.

Version 1.0 (April 2008)

First public release.

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vInfo
The “vInfo” tab displays for each virtual machine the hostname of the guest, DNS name,
power state, heartbeat, power on date / time, number of cpu’s, amount of memory,
number of nics, number of virtual disks, connected networks, fault tolerance State, fault
tolerance latency status, fault tolerance band width, fault tolerance secondary latency,
install Boot Required, configuration path, provisioned storage, used storage, shared
storage, annotation, custom fields, UUID, vApp name, folder name, datacenter name,
cluster name, ESX host name, operating system name, virtual machine hardware version
and VI SDK object id.

VM
Display name of the virtual machine.

DNS Name
DNS name of the guest operating system, if known.

Powerstate
This column list the powerstate for a virtual machine: poweredOn, poweredOff, or
suspended. This column does not model substates, such as when a task is running to
change the virtual machine state. If the virtual machine is in a state with a task in
progress, it transitions to a new state when the task completes. For example, a virtual
machine continues to be in the poweredOn state while a suspend task is running, and
changes to the suspended state once the task finishes.

NAME DESCRIPTION

poweredOff The virtual machine is currently powered off.

poweredOn The virtual machine is currently powered on.

suspended The virtual machine is currently suspended.

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Heartbeat
The guest heartbeat. The heartbeat status is classified as:

NAME DESCRIPTION

gray The status is unknown.

green The entity is OK.

red The entity definitely has a problem.

yellow The entity might have a problem.

PowerOn
The timestamp when the virtual machine was most recently powered on.
This property is updated when the virtual machine is powered on from the poweredOff
state, and is cleared when the virtual machine is powered off. This property is not
updated when a virtual machine is resumed from a suspended state.

Boot Time
The timestamp when the virtual machine was most recently powered on.
This property is updated when the virtual machine is powered on from the poweredOff
state, and is cleared when the virtual machine is powered off. This property is not
updated when a virtual machine is resumed from a suspended state.

CPU’s
Number of processors in the virtual machine.

Memory
Memory size of the virtual machine, in megabytes.

NIC’s
Number of virtual network adapters. When RVTools is “connected” to the Virtual Center
server this column has a value. When connected to an ESX host this column is “null”!

Disks
Number of virtual disks. When RVTools is “connected” to the Virtual Center server this
column has a value. When connected to an ESX host this column is “null”!

Network #1 to #4
Connected networks.

Boot required
Specifies whether the VM needs an initial boot before the deployment is complete.
Not relevant for vApps. This means that the value is always false when reading the
configuration and is ignored when setting the configuration.
If a vApp requires an install boot (because one of its VMs does), this is visible on the
installBootRequired field of the vApp.

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FT state
The fault tolerance state of the virtual machine.

FT Latency
The latency status of the fault tolerance VM. ftLatencyStatus is determined by the value
of ftSecondaryLatency. ftLatencyStatus is: green, if ftSecondaryLatency is less than or
equal to 2 seconds; yellow, if ftSecondaryLatency is greater than 2 seconds, and less
than or equal to 6 seconds; red, if ftSecondaryLatency is greater than 6 seconds; gray, if
ftSecondaryLatency is unknown.

FT Bandwidth
The network bandwidth used for logging between the primary and secondary fault
tolerance VMs. The unit is kilobytes per second.

FT sec. Latency
The amount of time in wallclock that the VCPU of the secondary fault tolerance VM is
behind the VCPU of the primary VM. The unit is millisecond.

Path
Path name to the configuration file for the virtual machine.

Provisioned MB
Total storage space, in MB, committed to this virtual machine across all datastores.
Essentially an aggregate of the property commited across all datastores that this virtual
machine is located on.

In use MB
Storage in use, space in MBs, used by this virtual machine on all datastores.

Unshared MB
Total storage space, in MB, occupied by the virtual machine across all datastores, that is
not shared with any other virtual machine.

Annotation
Description for the virtual machine.

UUID
VirtualCenter-specific 128-bit UUID of a virtual machine, represented as a hexadecimal
string. This identifier is used by VirtalCenter to uniquely identify all virtual machine
instances in the Virtual Infrastructure environment, including those that may share the
same SMBIOS UUID.

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Normally, this property is not set by a client, allowing the Virtual Infrastructure
environment to assign or change it when VirtualCenter detects an identifier conflict
between virtual machines. This identifier can be modified even when a virtual machine is
powered on. Clients can specify that vCenter Server reassign a new identifier by a
providing an empty string. Reassigning the identifer is not allowed for Fault Tolerance
virtual machines.

Custom Fields
The custom fields which you have defined.

vApp
The vApp name.
Getting the value for this columns slows down the overall performance of RVTools. For
now the column stays empty!

Folder
The name of the folder where the VM is placed.

Datacenter
The name of the datacenter where the VM is running.

Cluster
The name of the cluster where the VM is running.

Host
The host that is responsible for running a virtual machine. This property is null when the
virtual machine is not running and is not assigned to run on a particular host.

OS
This is the full name of the guest operating system for the virtual machine according to
the configuration file.

VM version
Virtual machine hardware version.

Object ID
Object ID which can be used to find the VM when you browse the VI SDK.

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vCpu
The “vCpu” tab displays for each virtual machine number of cpu’s, max cpu, overall cpu
usage, level, shares, reservation, static cpu entitlement, and field distributed cpu
entitlement, limits, annotations, custom fields, datacenter name, cluster name, ESX host
name and operating system name.

VM
Display name of the virtual machine.

CPU’s
Number of processors in the virtual machine.

Max
Current upper-bound on CPU usage. The upper-bound is based on the host the virtual
machine is current running on, as well as limits configured on the virtual machine itself or
any parent resource pool. Valid while the virtual machine is running.

Overall
Basic CPU performance statistics, in MHz. Valid while the virtual machine is running.

Level
The allocation level. The level is a simplified view of shares. Levels map to a pre-
determined set of numeric values for shares. If the shares value does not map to a
predefined size, then the level is set as custom.

Shares
The number of shares allocated. Used to determine resource allocation in case of
resource contention. This value is only set if level is set to custom. If level is not set to
custom, this value is ignored. Therefore, only shares with custom values can be
compared.

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Reservation
Amount of resource that is guaranteed available to the virtual machine or resource pool.
Reserved resources are not wasted if they are not used. If the utilization is less than the
reservation, the resources can be utilized by other running virtual machines. Units are
MB for memory, MHz for CPU.

Entitlement
The static CPU resource entitlement for a virtual machine. This value is calculated based
on this virtual machine's resource reservations, shares and limit, and doesn't take into
account current usage. This is the worst case CPU allocation for this virtual machine, that
is, the amount of CPU resource this virtual machine would receive if all virtual machines
running in the cluster went to maximum consumption. Units are MHz.

DRS Entitlement
This is the amount of CPU resource, in MHz, that this VM is entitled to, as calculated by
DRS. Valid only for a VM managed by DRS.

Limit
The utilization of a virtual machine/resource pool will not exceed this limit, even if there
are available resources. This is typically used to ensure a consistent performance of
virtual machines / resource pools independent of available resources. If set to -1, then
there is no fixed limit on resource usage (only bounded by available resources and
shares). Units are MB for memory, MHz for CPU.

Annotation
Description for the virtual machine.

Custom Fields
The custom fields which you have defined.

Datacenter
The name of the datacenter where the VM is running.

Cluster
The name of the cluster where the VM is running.

Host
The host that is responsible for running a virtual machine. This property is null when the
virtual machine is not running and is not assigned to run on a particular host.

OS
This is the full name of the guest operating system for the virtual machine according to
the configuration file.

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vMemory
The “vMemory” tab displays for each virtual machine the memory size, memory
overhead, max memory usage, consumed memory, consumed overhead, private
memory, shared memory, swapped memory, ballooned memory, active memory,
entitlement memory, distributed memory entitlement, level, shares, reservations , limit,
annotations, custom fields, datacenter name, cluster name, ESX host name and
operating system name.

VM
Display name of the virtual machine.

Size MB
Memory size of the virtual machine, in megabytes.

Overhead
The amount of memory resource (in MB) that will be used by the virtual machine above
its guest memory requirements. This value is set if and only if the virtual machine is
registered on a host that supports memory resource allocation features. For powered off
VMs, this is the minimum overhead required to power on the VM on the registered host.

Max
Current upper-bound on memory usage (in MB). The upper-bound is based on memory
configuration of the virtual machine, as well as limits configured on the virtual machine
itself or any parent resource pool. Valid while the virtual machine is running.

Consumed
Host memory utilization statistics, in MB. This is also known as consumed host memory.
This is between 0 and the configured resource limit. Valid while the virtual machine is
running. This includes the overhead memory of the VM.

Consumed overhead
The amount of consumed overhead memory, in MB, for this VM. Since vSphere API 4.0

Private
The portion of memory, in MB, that is granted to this VM from non-shared host memory.

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Since vSphere API 4.0

Shared
The portion of memory, in MB, that is granted to this VM from host memory that is
shared between VMs. Since vSphere API 4.0

Swapped
The portion of memory, in MB, that is granted to this VM from the host's swap space.
This is a sign that there is memory pressure on the host. Since vSphere API 4.0

Ballooned
The size of the balloon driver in the VM, in MB. The host will inflate the balloon driver to
reclaim physical memory from the VM. This is a sign that there is memory pressure on
the host. Since vSphere API 4.0

Active
Guest memory utilization statistics, in MB. This is also known as active guest memory.
The number can be between 0 and the configured memory size of the virtual machine.
Valid while the virtual machine is running.

Entitlement
The static memory resource entitlement for a virtual machine. This value is calculated
based on this virtual machine's resource reservations, shares and limit, and doesn't take
into account current usage. This is the worst case memory allocation for this virtual
machine, that is, the amount of memory this virtual machine would receive if all virtual
machines running in the cluster went to maximum consumption. Units are MB. Since
vSphere API 4.0

DRS Entitlement
This is the amount of memory, in MB, that this VM is entitled to, as calculated by DRS.
Valid only for a VM managed by DRS.

Level
The allocation level. The level is a simplified view of shares. Levels map to a pre-
determined set of numeric values for shares. If the shares value does not map to a
predefined size, then the level is set as custom.

Shares
The number of shares allocated. Used to determine resource allocation in case of
resource contention. This value is only set if level is set to custom. If level is not set to
custom, this value is ignored. Therefore, only shares with custom values can be
compared.

Reservation
Amount of resource that is guaranteed available to the virtual machine or resource pool.
Reserved resources are not wasted if they are not used. If the utilization is less than the
reservation, the resources can be utilized by other running virtual machines. Units are
MB for memory, MHz for CPU.

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Limit
The utilization of a virtual machine/resource pool will not exceed this limit, even if there
are available resources. This is typically used to ensure a consistent performance of
virtual machines / resource pools independent of available resources. If set to -1, then
there is no fixed limit on resource usage (only bounded by available resources and
shares). Units are MB for memory, MHz for CPU.

Annotation
Description for the virtual machine.

Custom Fields
The custom fields which you have defined.

Datacenter
The name of the datacenter where the VM is running.

Cluster
The name of the cluster where the VM is running.

Host
The host that is responsible for running a virtual machine. This property is null when the
virtual machine is not running and is not assigned to run on a particular host.

OS
This is the full name of the guest operating system for the virtual machine according to
the configuration file.

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vDisk
The “vDisk” tab displays for each virtual machine all the virtual disks, disk persistence
mode, total disk capacity, thin provisioned flag, split flag, level, shares value, SCSI
controller, unit id, vmdk path, annotations, custom fields, datacenter name, cluster
name, ESX host name and operating system name.

VM
Display name of the virtual machine.

Disk
Name of the virtual disk in the guest operating system. For example: C:\

Disk Mode
The disk persistence mode. Valid modes are:

Capacity MB
Total capacity of the disk, in megabytes. This is part of the virtual machine configuration.

Thin
Flag to indicate to the underlying filesystem, whether the virtual disk backing file should
be allocated lazily (using thin provisioning). This flag is only used for file systems that
support configuring the provisioning policy on a per file basis, such as VMFS3.

Split
Flag to indicate the type of virtual disk file: split or monolithic. If true, the virtual disk is
stored in multiple files, each 2GB

Level

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The allocation level. The level is a simplified view of shares. Levels map to a pre-
determined set of numeric values for shares. If the shares value does not map to a
predefined size, then the level is set as custom.

Shares
The number of shares allocated. Used to determine resource allocation in case of
resource contention. This value is only set if level is set to custom. If level is not set to
custom, this value is ignored. Therefore, only shares with custom values can be
compared.

Controller
Name of SCSI controller.

Two IDE adapters and a SCSI adapter are installed in the virtual machine. The IDE
adapter is always ATAPI. For the SCSI adapter, you can choose between a BusLogic
or LSI Logic SCSI adapter. In the Select I/O Adapter Types page, the default for your
guest operating system is already selected. Older guest operating systems default to the
BusLogic adapter. The LSI Logic adapter has improved performance, works better with
non‐disk SCSI devices, and is included with Windows Server 2003.

Source: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_admin_guide.pdf

Unit id
Unit id of this device on its controller.

Path
VMDK file name.

Annotation
Description for the virtual machine.

Custom Fields
The custom fields which you have defined.

Datacenter
The name of the datacenter where the VM is running.

Cluster
The name of the cluster where the VM is running.

Host
The host that is responsible for running a virtual machine. This property is null when the
virtual machine is not running and is not assigned to run on a particular host.

OS
This is the full name of the guest operating system for the virtual machine according to
the configuration file.

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vPartition
The “vPartition” tab displays for each virtual machine if the VMware Tools are active all
the partitions, total disk capacity, total free disk capacity, percentage free disk capacity,
annotations, custom fields, datacenter name, cluster name, ESX host name and
operating system name.

VM
Display name of the virtual machine.

Disk
Name of the virtual disk in the guest operating system. For example: C:\

Capacity MB
Total capacity of the disk, in megabytes. This is part of the virtual machine configuration.

Free MB
Free space on the disk, in megabytes. This is retrieved by VMware Tools.
Is empty when the information from the VMware tools are not available.

Free %
Percentage free space on the disk.
Is empty when the information from the VMware tools are not available.

Annotation
Description for the virtual machine.

Custom Fields
The custom fields which you have defined.

Datacenter
The name of the datacenter where the VM is running.

Cluster
The name of the cluster where the VM is running.

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Host
The host that is responsible for running a virtual machine. This property is null when the
virtual machine is not running and is not assigned to run on a particular host.

OS
This is the full name of the guest operating system for the virtual machine according to
the configuration file.

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vNetwork
The “vNetwork” tab displays for each virtual machine the virtual nics, powerstate,
adapter type, network name, connected value, Mac Address, Mac Address type, IP
Address, annotations, custom fields, datacenter name, cluster name, ESX host name and
operating system name.

VM
Display name of the virtual machine.

Powerstate
This column list the powerstate for a virtual machine: poweredOn, poweredOff, or
suspended. This column does not model substates, such as when a task is running to
change the virtual machine state. If the virtual machine is in a state with a task in
progress, it transitions to a new state when the task completes. For example, a virtual
machine continues to be in the poweredOn state while a suspend task is running, and
changes to the suspended state once the task finishes.

NAME DESCRIPTION

poweredOff The virtual machine is currently powered off.

poweredOn The virtual machine is currently powered on.

suspended The virtual machine is currently suspended.

Adapter
Name of the network adapter.

The following network adapters might be available for your virtual machine:
Source: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/191081

 Vlance — Vlance (also called PCNet32) is a faithful virtual implementation of a

common, if now somewhat aging, physical network adapter. Most 32-bit guest
operating systems, except for Windows Vista, have built-in support for this card
so a virtual machine configured with this network adapter can use its network
immediately.

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 vmxnet — The vmxnet virtual network adapter has no physical counterpart.

VMware makes vmxnet available because Vlance, a faithful implementation of a
physical card, is far from optimal for network performance in a virtual machine.
Vmxnet is highly optimized for performance in a virtual machine. Because there is
no physical card of type vmxnet, operating system vendors do not provide built-in
drivers for this card. You must install VMware Tools to have a driver for the
vmxnet network adapter available.
 Flexible — The Flexible network adapter identifies itself as a Vlance adapter when
a virtual machine boots, but initializes itself and functions as either a Vlance or a
vmxnet adapter, depending which driver initializes it. VMware Tools versions
recent enough to know about the Flexible network adapter include the vmxnet
driver but identify it as an updated Vlance driver, so the guest operating system
uses that driver. When using the Flexible network adapter, you can have vmxnet
performance when sufficiently recent VMware tools are installed. When an older
version of VMware Tools is installed, the Flexible adapter uses the Vlance adapter
(with Vlance performance) rather than giving no network capability at all when it
can’t find the vmxnet adapter.
 e1000 — e1000 is a faithful virtual implementation of a physical network adapter
that is broadly supported by newer operating systems, specifically most 64-bit
operating systems and both 32- and 64-bit Windows Vista. e1000 performance is
intermediate between Vlance and vmxnet.
 Enhanced vmxnet — The enhanced vmxnet adapter is based on the vmxnet
adapter but provides some high-performance features commonly used on modern
networks, such as jumbo frames. This virtual network adapter is the current
state-of-the-art device in virtual network adapter performance, but it is available
only for some guest operating systems on ESX Server 3.5. This network adapter
will become available for additional guest operating systems in the future.

Enhanced VMXNET is supported only for a limited set of guest operating systems:
 32/64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows 2003 (Enterprise and Datacenter
Editions). You can use enhanced vmxnet adapters with other versions of the
Microsoft Windows 2003 operating system, but a workaround is required to enable
the option in the VI Client. See http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1007195.
 32/64-bit versions Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0
 32/64-bit versions SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
 64-bit versions Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0

Network
Name of the network connected to this adapter.

Connected
Column indicating if the virtual network adaptor is connected or not.

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Mac Address
MAC address of the adapter.

Mac Type
This field can have one of the following values:
Manual Statically assigned MAC address.
Generated Automatically generated MAC address.
Assigned MAC address assigned by VirtualCenter.

IP Address
IP addresses of the adapter.

Annotation
Description for the virtual machine.

Custom Fields
The custom fields which you have defined.

Datacenter
The name of the datacenter where the VM is running.

Cluster
The name of the cluster where the VM is running.

Host
The host that is responsible for running a virtual machine. This property is null when the
virtual machine is not running and is not assigned to run on a particular host.

OS
This is the full name of the guest operating system for the virtual machine according to
the configuration file.

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vFloppy
The “vFloppy” tab displays for each virtual machine the floppy information like VM
powerstate, label, connected value, startup value, summary, annotations, custom fields,
datacenter name, cluster name, ESX host name and operating system name. It’s possible
to disconnect the Floppy from this screen.

VM
Display name of the virtual machine.

Powerstate
This column list the powerstate for a virtual machine: poweredOn, poweredOff, or
suspended. This column does not model substates, such as when a task is running to
change the virtual machine state. If the virtual machine is in a state with a task in
progress, it transitions to a new state when the task completes. For example, a virtual
machine continues to be in the poweredOn state while a suspend task is running, and
changes to the suspended state once the task finishes.

NAME DESCRIPTION

poweredOff The virtual machine is currently powered off.

poweredOn The virtual machine is currently powered on.

suspended The virtual machine is currently suspended.

Device Node
This column provides a node for the device.

Device type
This column shows the device type.
Remote /dev/fd0 = client device
/dev/fd0 = host device

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Connected
Column indicating if the virtual device is connected or not. Only valid when the virtual
machine is running.

Startup
Column indicating if the virtual device is connected when the virtual machine starts.

Annotation
Description for the virtual machine.

Custom Fields
The custom fields which you have defined.

Datacenter
The name of the datacenter where the VM is running.

Cluster
The name of the cluster where the VM is running.

Host
The host that is responsible for running a virtual machine. This property is null when the
virtual machine is not running and is not assigned to run on a particular host.

OS
This is the full name of the guest operating system for the virtual machine according to
the configuration file.

VMRef
For internal use only.

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vCD
The “vCD” tab displays for each virtual machine CD-Rom information like VM powerstate,
label, connected value, startup value, summary, annotations, custom fields,
datacentername, cluster name, ESX host name and operating system name. It’s possible
to disconnect the CD-Rom from this screen.

VM
Display name of the virtual machine.

Powerstate
This column list the powerstate for a virtual machine: poweredOn, poweredOff, or
suspended. This column does not model substates, such as when a task is running to
change the virtual machine state. If the virtual machine is in a state with a task in
progress, it transitions to a new state when the task completes. For example, a virtual
machine continues to be in the poweredOn state while a suspend task is running, and
changes to the suspended state once the task finishes.

NAME DESCRIPTION

poweredOff The virtual machine is currently powered off.

poweredOn The virtual machine is currently powered on.

suspended The virtual machine is currently suspended.

Device Node
This column provides a node for the device.

Device Type
This column shows the device type.
Remote ATAPI = client device
ATAPI /dev/cdrom = host device

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Connected
Column indicating if the virtual device is connected or not. Only valid when the virtual
machine is running.

Startup
Column indicating if the virtual device is connected when the virtual machine starts.

Annotation
Description for the virtual machine.

Custom Fields
The custom fields which you have defined.

Datacenter
The name of the datacenter where the VM is running.

Cluster
The name of the cluster where the VM is running.

Host
The host that is responsible for running a virtual machine. This property is null when the
virtual machine is not running and is not assigned to run on a particular host.

OS
This is the full name of the guest operating system for the virtual machine according to
the configuration file.

VMRef
For internal use only.

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vSnapshot
The “vSnapshot” tab displays for each snapshot the name, description, date / time of the
snapshot, filename, file size, quiesced value, state value, annotations, custom fields,
datacenter name, cluster name, ESX host name and operating system name.

VM
Display name of the virtual machine.

Name
Name of the snapshot.

Description
Description of the snapshot.

Date / time
The date and time the snapshot was taken.

Filename
Filename of snapshot.

Size
Total size of snapshot in bytes.

Quiesced
Flag to indicate whether or not the snapshot was created with the "quiesce" option,
ensuring a consistent state of the file system.

State
The power state of the virtual machine when this snapshot was taken.

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Annotation
Description for the virtual machine.

Custom Fields
The custom fields which you have defined.

Datacenter
The name of the datacenter where the VM is running.

Cluster
The name of the cluster where the VM is running.

Host
The host that is responsible for running a virtual machine. This property is null when the
virtual machine is not running and is not assigned to run on a particular host.

OS
This is the full name of the guest operating system for the virtual machine according to
the configuration file.

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vTools
The “vTools” tab displays for each virtual machine the name, virtual machine hardware
version, power state, Tools status, tools version, upgradeable flag, template flag,
upgrade policy, sync time, annotations, custom fields, datacenter name, cluster name,
ESX host name, config operating system name and the operating system name according
to the VMware tools.

When you install a patched version of ESX Server, VMware expects you to upgrade
VMware Tools to the latest version, included with that release. If you report a problem
with a virtual machine that has an older version of the VMware Tools installed in the
guest operating system, VMware Technical Support may ask you to upgrade the VMware
tools to the version included with the ESX Server Patch in the process of troubleshooting
that problem.

VM
Display name of the virtual machine.

VM Version
Virtual machine hardware version.

Powerstate
This column list the powerstate for a virtual machine: poweredOn, poweredOff, or
suspended. This column does not model substates, such as when a task is running to
change the virtual machine state. If the virtual machine is in a state with a task in
progress, it transitions to a new state when the task completes. For example, a virtual
machine continues to be in the poweredOn state while a suspend task is running, and
changes to the suspended state once the task finishes.

NAME DESCRIPTION

poweredOff The virtual machine is currently powered off.

poweredOn The virtual machine is currently powered on.

suspended The virtual machine is currently suspended.

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Tools
Current status of VMware Tools running in the guest operating system.

NAME DESCRIPTION

toolsNotInstalled VMware Tools has never been installed or has not run in the virtual machine.

toolsNotRunning VMware Tools is not running.

toolsOk VMware Tools is running and the version is current.

toolsOld VMware Tools is running, but the version is not current.

Tools version
Current version of VMware Tools, if known.

# VMware version-mapping file.

#
# This file provides a one-to-one mapping between VMware Tools for
# ESX/ESXi version-number codes, and paths to OSP repositories suitable
# for that Tools version.
#
8481 ../unsupported/tools/esx/mn_next
8389 esx/5.0u1
8384 esx/5.0p02
8384 esx/5.0
8300 esx/4.1u2
8300 esx/4.1p04
8295 esx/4.1p03
8295 esx/4.1u1
8290 esx/4.1
8289 esx/4.1
8288 esx/4.1
8196 esx/4.0u4
8196 esx/4.0p10
8196 esx/4.0u3
8195 esx/4.0u2
8194 esx/4.0u1
8193 esx/4.0
8192 esx/4.0
7304 esx/3.5p25
7304 esx/3.5p24
7304 esx/3.5u5
7303 esx/3.5u4
7302 esx/3.5u3

Source: http://packages.vmware.com/tools/versions

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Upgradeable
Column which specify whether or not the tools are upgradeable from this application.

The UpgradeTools_Task operation requires the following:

 ESX Server must be version 3.0.1 or later.
 The virtual machine must be powered on.
 VMware Tools must be installed and running.
 The VirtualMachine's guest.toolsStatus property must be either "toolsOK" or
"toolsOld".
 VMware Tools must be the version that ships with ESX 3.0.

Template
Column which specifies if this is a template or not.

Upgrade Policy
The policy setting used to determine when tools are auto-upgraded for a virtual machine.

NAME DESCRIPTION

manual No auto-upgrades for tools will be performed for this virtual machine.
Users must manually invoke the UpgradeTools operation to update the
tools.

upgradeAtPowerCycle When the virtual machine is power-cycled, the system checks for a
newer version of tools when the VM comes back up. If it is available, a
tools upgrade is automatically performed on the virtual machine and it is
rebooted if necessary.

Sync Time
Indicates whether or not the VMware tools program will sync time with the host time.

Annotation
Description for the virtual machine.

Custom Fields
The custom fields which you have defined.

Datacenter
The name of the datacenter where the VM is running.

Cluster
The name of the cluster where the VM is running.

Host
The host that is responsible for running a virtual machine. This property is null when the
virtual machine is not running and is not assigned to run on a particular host.

OS according to the configuration file

This is the full name of the guest operating system for the virtual machine according to
the configuration file.

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OS according to the VMware Tools

This is the full name of the guest operating system for the virtual machine according to
the VMware Tools.

VMRef
For internal use only.

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vHost
The “vHost” tab displays for each host the name, datacenter name, cluster name, CPU
model, CPU speed, hyperthread information, number of CPU’s, cores per CPU, number of
cores, CPU usage %, total amount of memory, memory usage %, memory reserved for
the service console, number of NIC’s, number of HBA’s, number of VM’s running on this
host, number of VMs per core on this host, number of virtual cpus per core, current EVC
mode, Max EVC mode, ESX version of this host, Boot time, DNS Servers, DHCP, Domain
name, DNS Search Order, NTP Server(s), Time Zone, Time Zone Name and GMT Offset,
harware vendor and model and BIOS information.

Host
Name of the ESX host.

Datacenter
Name of the datacenter.

Cluster
Name of the cluster.

CPU Model
The CPU model.

Speed
The speed of the CPU cores. This is an average value if there are multiple speeds. The
product of cpuMhz and numCpuCores is approximately equal to the sum of the MHz for
all the individual cores on the host.

HT Available
The flag to indicate whether or not hyperthreading optimization is available on the
system. This property is set by VMware prior to installation.

HT Active
The flag to indicate whether or not the CPU scheduler is currently treating hyperthreads
as schedulable resources. Setting this property involves a successful invocation of either

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the enableHyperThreading() method ("true") or the disableHyperthreading() method

("false"). The property is set once the system is rebooted.

# CPUs
Number of physical CPU cores on the host. Physical CPU cores are the processors contained by a
CPU package.

Usage %
Aggregated CPU usage across all cores on the host in %.

# Memory
Total amount of physical memory on the host in MB.

Usage %
Physical memory usage on the host in %.

Console
The amount of memory that is currently reserved for the service console.

# NICs
The number of network adapters.

# HBAs
The number of host bus adapters (HBAs).

# VMs
The number of running VMs on this host.

VMs per core

The number of running VM’s per core on this host.

# vCPUs
Total number of running virtual CPUs on this host

vCPUs per core

The number of active virtual cpu's per core.

Current EVC
The Enhanced VMotion Compatibility mode that is currently in effect for this host. If the
host is in a cluster where EVC is active, this will match the cluster's EVC mode; otherwise
this will be unset.

Max EVC
The most capable Enhanced VMotion Compatibility mode supported by the host hardware
and software; unset if this host cannot participate in any EVC mode.

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ESX Version
complete product name, including the version information.

Boot time
The time when the host was booted.

DNS Servers
The IP addresses of the DNS servers, placed in order of preference.

Note: When DHCP is not enabled, the property can be set explicitly. When DHCP is
enabled, the property reflects the current DNS configuration, but cannot be set.

DHCP
The flag to indicate whether or not DHCP (dynamic host control protocol) is used to
determine DNS configuration automatically.

Domain
The domain name portion of the DNS name. For example, "vmware.com".

Note: When DHCP is not enabled, the property can be set explicitly. When DHCP is
enabled, the property reflects the current DNS configuration, but cannot be set.

DNS Search domains

The domain in which to search for hosts, placed in order of preference.

Note: When DHCP is not enabled, the property can be set explicitly. When DHCP is
enabled, the property reflects the current DNS configuration, but cannot be set.

NTP Server(s)
List of time servers, specified as either IP addresses or fully qualified domain names
(FQDNs).

Time Zone
Description of the time zone.

Time Zone Name

The time zone name.

GMT Offset
The GMT offset in seconds that is currently applicable to the time zone (with respect to
the current time on the host).

Vendor
Name of hardware vendor.

Model
System model identification.

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BIOS version
Current BIOS.version of physical machine.

BIOS date
Release date of BIOS.

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vHBA
The vHBA tab displays for each host name, datacenter, cluster name, device name,
device type, status flag, bus number, PCI address, driver name, driver model name and
worldwide name.

Host
Name of the ESX host.

Datacenter
Name of the datacenter.

Cluster
Name of the cluster.

Device
The device name of host bus adapter.

Type
HBA type.

Status
The operational status of the adapter. Valid values include "online", "offline", and "fault".

Bus
The host bus number.

Pci
The Peripheral Connect Interface (PCI) ID of the device representing the host bus
adapter.

Driver
The name of the driver.

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Model
The model name of the host bus adapter.

WWN
The worldwide port name for the adapter.

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vNic
The vNic tab displays for each physical network card (on the host) host name, datacenter
name, cluster name, network device, driver, speed, duplex switch, MAC address and
wakeon switch.

Host
Name of the ESX host.

Datacenter
Name of the datacenter.

Cluster
Name of the cluster.

Network device
The device name of the physical network adapter.

Driver
The name of the driver.

Speed
The bit rate on the link.

Duplex
The flag to indicate whether or not the link is capable of full-duplex ("true") or only half-
duplex ("false").

PCI
Device hash of the PCI device corresponding to this physical network adapter.

Wakeon
Flag indicating whether the NIC is wake-on-LAN capable.

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vSwitch
The vSwitch tab displays for each virtual switch the host name, datacenter name, cluster
name,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
The name of the host where the switch is defined.

Datacenter
The name of the datacenter where the switch is defined.

Cluster
The name of the cluster where the switch is defined.

Switch
The name of the virtual switch. Maximum length is 32 characters.

# Ports
The number of ports that this virtual switch is configured to use. Changing this setting
does not take effect until the next reboot. The maximum value is 1024, although other
constraints, such as memory limits, may establish a lower effective limit.

Free Ports
The number of ports that are available on this virtual switch. There are a number of
networking services that utilize a port on the virtual switch and are not accounted for in
the Port array of a PortGroup. For example, each physical NIC attached to a virtual
switch consumes one port. This property should be used when attempting to implement
admission control for new services attaching to virtual switches.

Promiscuous mode
The flag to indicate whether or not all traffic is seen on the port.

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Mac Changes
The flag to indicate whether or not the Media Access Control (MAC) address can be changed.

Forged Transmits
The flag to indicate whether or not the virtual network adapter should be allowed to send network
traffic with a different MAC address than that of the virtual network adapter.

Traffic Shaping
The flag to indicate whether or not traffic shaper is enabled on the port.

Width
The average bandwidth in bits per second if shaping is enabled on the port.

Peak
The peak bandwidth during bursts in bits per second if traffic shaping is enabled on the
port.

Burst
The maximum burst size allowed in bytes if shaping is enabled on the port

Policy
Network adapter teaming policy includes failover and load balancing, It can be one of the
following:

 loadbalance_ip: route based on ip hash.

 loadbalance_srcmac: route based on source MAC hash.
 loadbalance_srcid: route based on the source of the port ID.
 failover_explicit: use explicity failover order.

Reverse Policy
The flag to indicate whether or not the teaming policy is applied to inbound frames as
well. For example, if the policy is explicit failover, a broadcast request goes through
uplink1 and comes back through uplink2. Then if the reverse policy is set, the frame is
dropped when it is received from uplink2. This reverse policy is useful to prevent the
virtual machine from getting reflections.

Notify Switch
Flag to specify whether or not to notify the physical switch if a link fails. If this property
is true, ESX Server will respond to the failure by sending a RARP packet from a different
physical adapter, causing the switch to update its cache.

Rolling Order
The flag to indicate whether or not to use a rolling policy when restoring links. For
example, assume the explicit link order is (vmnic9, vmnic0), therefore vmnic9 goes
down, vmnic0 comes up. However, when vmnic9 comes backup, if rollingOrder is set to
be true, vmnic0 continues to be used, otherwise, vmnic9 is restored as specified in the
explicitly order.

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Offload
Offload capabilities are used to optimize virtual machine network performance. When a
virtual machine is transmitting on a network, some operations can be offloaded to either
the host or the physical hardware. This policy indicates what networking related
operations should be offloaded. All virtual machines using this PortGroup are subject to
this policy. There is no setting for an individual virtual machine to determine if an
operation should be offloaded.

TSO
The flag to indicate whether or not TCP segmentation offloading (TSO) is supported.

Zero Copy Xmit

The flag to indicate whether or not zero copy transmits are supported.

MTU
The maximum transmission unit (MTU) of the virtual switch in bytes.

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vPort
The vPort tab displays for each port the host name, datacenter name, cluster name,
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 and zero copy transmits
support flag.

Host
The name of the host where the port group is defined.

Datacenter
The name of the datacenter where the port group is defined.

Cluster
The name of the cluster where the port group is defined.

Port Group
The name of the port group.

Switch
The identifier of the virtual switch on which this port group is located.

VLAN
The VLAN ID for ports using this port group. Possible values:
 A value of 0 specifies that you do not want the port group associated with a VLAN.
 A value from 1 to 4094 specifies a VLAN ID for the port group.
 A value of 4095 specifies that the port group should use trunk mode, which allows
the guest operating system to manage its own VLAN tags.

Settings on the port group take precedence over the ones specified on the virtual switch.

Promiscuous mode
The flag to indicate whether or not all traffic is seen on the port.

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Mac Changes
The flag to indicate whether or not the Media Access Control (MAC) address can be changed.

Forged Transmits
The flag to indicate whether or not the virtual network adapter should be allowed to send network
traffic with a different MAC address than that of the virtual network adapter.

Traffic Shaping
The flag to indicate whether or not traffic shaper is enabled on the port.

Width
The average bandwidth in bits per second if shaping is enabled on the port.

Peak
The peak bandwidth during bursts in bits per second if traffic shaping is enabled on the
port.

Burst
The maximum burst size allowed in bytes if shaping is enabled on the port

Policy
Network adapter teaming policy includes failover and load balancing, It can be one of the
following:

 loadbalance_ip: route based on ip hash.

 loadbalance_srcmac: route based on source MAC hash.
 loadbalance_srcid: route based on the source of the port ID.
 failover_explicit: use explicity failover order.

Reverse Policy
The flag to indicate whether or not the teaming policy is applied to inbound frames as
well. For example, if the policy is explicit failover, a broadcast request goes through
uplink1 and comes back through uplink2. Then if the reverse policy is set, the frame is
dropped when it is received from uplink2. This reverse policy is useful to prevent the
virtual machine from getting reflections.

Notify Switch
Flag to specify whether or not to notify the physical switch if a link fails. If this property
is true, ESX Server will respond to the failure by sending a RARP packet from a different
physical adapter, causing the switch to update its cache.

Rolling Order
The flag to indicate whether or not to use a rolling policy when restoring links. For
example, assume the explicit link order is (vmnic9, vmnic0), therefore vmnic9 goes
down, vmnic0 comes up. However, when vmnic9 comes backup, if rollingOrder is set to
be true, vmnic0 continues to be used, otherwise, vmnic9 is restored as specified in the
explicitly order.

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Offload
Offload capabilities are used to optimize virtual machine network performance. When a
virtual machine is transmitting on a network, some operations can be offloaded to either
the host or the physical hardware. This policy indicates what networking related
operations should be offloaded. All virtual machines using this PortGroup are subject to
this policy. There is no setting for an individual virtual machine to determine if an
operation should be offloaded.

TSO
The flag to indicate whether or not TCP segmentation offloading (TSO) is supported.

Zero Copy Xmit

The flag to indicate whether or not zero copy transmits are supported.

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dvSwitch
The dvSwitch tab displays for each distributed virtual switch the following properties:
switch name, datacenter name, short product name, vendor, description, date created,
host members, max ports, number of ports, number of connected VMs, traffic shaping
values, CDP type, CDP operation, max MTU, contact and name of responsible person.

Switch
The name of the switch.

Datacenter
The name of the datacenter.

Name
Short form of the product name.

Vendor
Name of the vendor of this product.

Version
Dot-separated version string.

Description
A description string of the switch.

Created
The create time of the switch.

Host members
The hosts that join the switch.

Max Ports
The maximum number of ports allowed in the switch, not including conflict ports.

# Ports
Current number of ports, not including conflict ports.

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# VMs
Number of VMs connected to the switch.

In Traffic Shaping
The flag to indicate whether or not in-throughput traffic shaper is enabled on the port.

In Avg
The average in-throughput bandwidth in Kbits per second if shaping is enabled on the
port

In Peak
The in-throughput peak bandwidth during bursts in Kbits per second if traffic shaping is
enabled on the port.

In Burst
The maximum in-throughput burst size allowed in Kbytes if shaping is enabled on the
port.

Out Traffic Shaping

The flag to indicate whether or not out-throughput traffic shaper is enabled on the port.

Out Avg
The average out-throughput bandwidth in Kbits per second if shaping is enabled on the
port

Out Peak
The out-throughput peak bandwidth during bursts in Kbits per second if traffic shaping is
enabled on the port.

Out Burst
The maximumout-throughput burst size allowed in Kbytes if shaping is enabled on the
port.

CDP Type
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! Whether to advertise or listen.

NAME DESCRIPTION

advertise Sent discovery packets for the switch, but don't listen for incoming discovery
packets.

both Sent discovery packets for the switch and listen for incoming discovery packets.

listen Listen for incoming discovery packets but don't sent discovery packet for the switch.

none Don't listen for incoming discovery packets and don't sent discover packets for the
switch either

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CDP Operation
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! The discovery protocol type.

NAME DESCRIPTION

cdp Cisco Discovery Protocol

lldp Link Layer Discovery Protocol

Max MTU
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! The maximum MTU in the switch.

Contact
The contact information for the human operator.

Name
The name of the person who is responsible for the switch.

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dvPort
The dvPort tab displays for each distributed virtual port the following properties: name of
portgroup, distributed switch name, portgroup type, number of ports, VLAN id, speed,
Full duplex switch, blocked switch, allow promiscuous switch, Mac changes switch, active
Uplink, standby uplink, policy, forged transmits switch, traffic shapping values, reverse
policy switch, notify switch, rolling order, check beacon, live port moving switch, check
duplex flag, check error % flag, check speed flag, block override flag, config reset switch,
override shaping switch, vendor config override switch, security policy override switch,
teaming override switch and VLAN override switch

Port
The name of the portgroup.

Switch
The DistributedVirtualSwitch that the portgroup is defined on. This property should
always be set unless the user's setting does not have System.Read privilege on the
object referred to by this property.

Type
The type of portgroup.

NAME DESCRIPTION

earlyBinding A free DistributedVirtualPort will be selected and assigned to a Virtual Machine

when the Virtual Machine is reconfigured to connect to the portgroup.

ephemeral A DistributedVirtualPort will be created and assigned to a Virtual Machine when the
Virtual Machine is powered on, and will be deleted when the Virtual Machine is
powered off. An ephemeral portgroup has no limit on the number of ports that can
be a part of this portgroup. In cases where the vCenter Server is unavailable the
host can create conflict ports in this portgroup to be used by a Virtual Machine at
power on.

lateBinding A free DistributedVirtualPort will be selected and assigned to a Virtual Machine

when the Virtual Machine is powered on.

# Ports
Number of ports in the portgroup.

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VLAN
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! The VLAN ID for ports. Possible values:
A value of 0 specifies that you do not want the port associated with a VLAN. Value from
1 to 4094 specifies a VLAN ID for the port.

Speed
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! Link speed.

Full Duplex
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! Full Duplex switch.

Blocked
Blocked switch.

Allow Promiscuous
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! The flag to indicate whether or not all traffic is seen
on the port.

Mac Changes
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! The flag to indicate whether or not the Media
Access Control (MAC) address can be changed.

Active Uplink
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! List of active uplink ports used for load balancing.

Standby Uplink
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! Standby uplink ports used for failover.

Policy
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware Network adapter teaming policy. The policy defines
the way traffic from the clients of the team is routed through the different uplinks in the
team. The policies supported on the vDS platform is one of:

NAME DESCRIPTION

failover_explicit Use explicit failover order

loadbalance_ip Routing based on IP hash

loadbalance_loadbased Routing based by dynamically balancing traffic through the NICs in a

team. This is the recommended teaming policy when the network I/O
control feature is enabled for the vNetwork Distributed Switch.

loadbalance_srcid Route based on the source of the port ID

loadbalance_srcmac Route based on source MAC hash

Forged Transmits
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! The flag to indicate whether or not the virtual
network adapter should be allowed to send network traffic with a different MAC address
than that of the virtual network adapter.

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In Traffic Shaping
The flag to indicate whether or not in-throughput traffic shaper is enabled on the port.

In Avg
The average in-throughput bandwidth in Kbits per second if shaping is enabled on the
port

In Peak
The in-throughput peak bandwidth during bursts in Kbits per second if traffic shaping is
enabled on the port.

In Burst
The maximum in-throughput burst size allowed in Kbytes if shaping is enabled on the
port.

Out Traffic Shaping

The flag to indicate whether or not out-throughput traffic shaper is enabled on the port.

Out Avg
The average out-throughput bandwidth in Kbits per second if shaping is enabled on the
port

Out Peak
The out-throughput peak bandwidth during bursts in Kbits per second if traffic shaping is
enabled on the port.

Out Burst
The maximumout-throughput burst size allowed in Kbytes if shaping is enabled on the
port.

Reverse Policy
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! The flag to indicate whether or not the teaming
policy is applied to inbound frames as well.

Notify Switch
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! Flag to specify whether or not to notify the physical
switch if a link fails.

Rolling Order
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! The flag to indicate whether or not to use a rolling
policy when restoring links.

Check Beacon
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! The flag to indicate whether or not to enable this
property to enable beacon probing as a method to validate the link status of a physical
network adapter. checkBeacon can be enabled only if the VirtualSwitch has been
configured to use the beacon. Attempting to set checkBeacon on a PortGroup or
VirtualSwitch that does not have beacon probing configured for the applicable
VirtualSwitch results in an error.

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Live Port Moving

Allow a live port to be moved in and out of the portgroup.

Check Duplex
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! The flag to indicate whether or not to use the link
duplex reported by the driver as link selection criteria. If true, then fullDuplex is the
configured duplex mode. The link is considered bad if the link duplex reported by driver is
not the same as fullDuplex. If false, then fullDuplex is unused, and link duplexity is not
used as a detection method.

Check Error %
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! The flag to indicate whether or not to use link error
percentage to detect failure. If true, then percentage is the configured error percentage
that is tolerated. The link is considered bad if error rate exceeds percentage. If false,
percentage is unused, and error percentage is not used as a detection method.

Check Speed
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! To use link speed as the criteria, checkSpeed must
be one of the following values:
o exact: Use exact speed to detect link failure. speed is the configured exact speed
in megabits per second.
o minimum: Use minimum speed to detect failure. speed is the configured minimum
speed in megabits per second.
o empty string: Do not use link speed to detect failure. speed is unused in this case.

Percentage
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware. See Check Error%.

Block Override
Allow the blocked setting of an individual port to override the default setting of a
portgroup.

Config Reset
If true, reset the port network setting back to the portgroup setting (thus removing the
per-port setting) when the port is disconnected from the connectee.

Shaping Override
Allow the inShaping Policy or outShaping Policy settings of an individual port to override
the default setting of a portgroup.

Vendor Config Override

Allow the vendor specific configuration setting of an individual port to override the default
setting of a portgroup.

Sec. Policy Override

Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! Allow the setting ofsecurity policy for an individual
port to override the default setting of a portgroup.

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Traming Override
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! Allow the setting of uplink teaming policy for an
individual port to override the default setting of a portgroup.

VLAN Override
Only for Virtual Switch from VMware! Allow the setting of VLAN ID, trunk VLAN ID, or
primary VLAN ID for an individual port to override the default setting of a portgroup.

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vSC+VMK
The vSC+VMK tab displays for each service console and VMkernel the host name,
datacenter name, cluster name, port group, device, mac address, DHCP flag, IP address,
subnet mask and gateway address.

Host
The name of the host where the service console or VMkernel is defined.

Datacenter
The name of the datacenter where the service console or VMkernel is defined.

Cluster
The name of the cluster where the service console or VMkernel is defined.

Port group
If the vnic is connecting to a vSwitch, this property is the name of portgroup connected.
If the vnic is connecting to a DistributedVirtualSwitch, this property is ignored.

Device
VirtualNic device to which configuration applies.

Mac Address
The media access control (MAC) address of the virtual network adapter.

DHCP
The flag to indicate whether or not DHCP (dynamic host control protocol) is enabled. If
this property is set to true, the ipAddress and the subnetMask strings cannot be set
explicitly.

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IP Address
The IP address currently used by the network adapter. All IP addresses are specified
using IPv4 dot notation. For example, "192.168.0.1". Subnet addresses and netmasks
are specified using the same notation.

Note: When DHCP is enabled, this property reflects the current IP configuration and
cannot be set. When DHCP is not enabled, this property can be set explicitly.

Subnet Mask
The subnet mask.

Note: When DHCP is not enabled, this property can be set explicitly. When DHCP is
enabled, this property reflects the current IP configuration and cannot be set.

Gateway
The default gateway address.

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vDatastore
The “vDatastore” tab displays for each datastore the name, connectivity status, file
system type, number of virtual machines on the datastore, total capacity in mb’s, Total
provisioned storage in MB, Used storage in MB, shared storage in MB, free capacity in
mb’s, SIOC enabled flag, SIOC congested threshold value, number of hosts connected,
names of connected hosts, block size, max blocks, number of extents, major version
number, version string, upgradeable status flag, multiple host access indication and the
url.

Name
The name of the datastore.

Address
The full device's address (controller, target, device)

Accessible
The connectivity status of this datastore. If this is set to false, meaning the datastore is
not accessible, this datastore's capacity and freespace properties cannot be validated.
Furthermore, if this property is set to false, the url properties should not be used.

Type
Type of file system volume, such as VMFS or NFS.

# VMs
Total number of active virtual machines on this datastore.

Capacity MB
Maximum capacity of this datastore, in megabytes.

Provisioned MB
Total storage space, in MB, potentially used by all the virtual machines on this datastore.

In Use MB
Available space of this datastore.

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Free MB
Free space on the datastore, in megabytes.

Free %
Percentage free space on the datastore.

SIOC Enabled
Flag indicating whether or not the service is enabled.

SIOC Threshold
The latency beyond which the storage array is considered congested.

# Hosts
Number of hosts which are connected to the datastore.

Hosts
Host names of all hosts which are connected to the datastore.

Block size
Block size of VMFS. Determines maximum file size. The maximum number of blocks is
typically fixed with each specific version of VMFS. To increase the maximum size of of a
VMFS file, increase the block size. The minimum block size is 1MB.

Max Blocks
Maximum number of blocks. Determines maximum file size along with blockSize. See
information about the blockSize. In VMFS2, this number is 466,944. In VMFS3, this
number is 786,432.

# Extents
The total number of extents.

Major Version
Major version number of VMFS.

Version
Version string. Contains major and minor version numbers.

VMFS Upgradeable
Indication if the filesystem can be upgraded to a newer version

MHA
Multiple Host Access. More than one host in the datacenter has been configured with
access to the datastore. This information is only provided by VirtualCenter.

URL
The unique locator for the datastore. This property is guaranteed to be valid only if
accessible is true.

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vHealth
The “vHealth” tab will display the health check messages.

There are 11 possible “Health Check” messages:

1. VM has a CDROM device connected!
2. VM has a Floppy device connected!
3. VM has an active snapshot!
4. VMware tools are out of date, not running or not installed!
5. On disk xx is yy% disk space available! The threshold value is zz%
6. On datastore xx is yy% disk space available! The threshold value is zz%
7. There are xx virtal CPUs active per core on this host. The threshold value is zz
8. There are xx VMs active on this datastore. The threshold value is zz
9. Possible a zombie vmdk file! Please check.
10. Possible a zombie vm! Please check.
11. Inconsistent Folder Names

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Health properties
On the properties form you can set your own thresholds and choose which health checks
to execute or to skip.

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Command line options

Start RVTools, use pass-through authentication, and connect to a specific virtualcenter or

ESX server.

RVTools.exe -passthroughAuth -s virtualcenter.domain.local

Start RVTools, use pass-through authentication, connect to a specific virtualcenter or ESX

server, start export all to csv function and write the csv files to a specific directory.

RVTools.exe: -passthroughAuth -s virtualcenter.domain.local -c ExportAll2csv -d directory

Start RVTools, use pass-through authentication, connect to a specific virtualcenter or ESX

server, start export all to excel function and write the excel file to a specific directory.

RVTools.exe: -passthroughAuth -s virtualcenter.domain.local -c ExportAll2xls -d directory

Start RVTools, use pass-through authentication, connect to a specific virtualcenter or ESX

server, start export all to excel function and write the excel file to a specific directory
with a specific filename.

RVTools.exe: -passthroughAuth -s virtualcenter.domain.local -c ExportAll2xls -d directory -f filename

If it’s not possible (or not working) to use pass-through authentication you can use the –
u parameter to pass an user account and –p parameter to pass the password.

RVTools.exe: -u user –p password -s virtualcenter.domain.local -c ExportAll2xls -d directory -f filename

Since version 3.2 its possible to export a single tab page to excel. Some examples:

rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportAll2csv -d C:\Temp

rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportAll2xls -d C:\Temp -f RVTools.xls
rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportvInfo2xls -d C:\Temp -f vInfo.xls
rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportvCpu2xls -d C:\Temp -f vCpu.xls
rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportvMemory2xls -d C:\Temp -f vMemory.xls
rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportvDisk2xls -d C:\Temp -f vDisk.xls
rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportvPartition2xls -d C:\Temp -f vPartition.xls
rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportvNetwork2xls -d C:\Temp -f vNetwork.xls
rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportvFloppy2xls -d C:\Temp -f vFloppy.xls
rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportvCD2xls -d C:\Temp -f vCD.xls
rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportvSnapshot2xls -d C:\Temp -f vSnapshot.xls
rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportvTools2xls -d C:\Temp -f vTools.xls
rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportvHost2xls -d C:\Temp -f vHost.xls
rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportvNIC2xls -d C:\Temp -f vNIC.xls
rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportvSwitch2xls -d C:\Temp -f vSwitch.xls
rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportvPort2xls -d C:\Temp -f vPort.xls
rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportdvSwitch2xls -d C:\Temp -f dvSwitch.xls
rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportvSC+VMK2xls -d C:\Temp -f vSC+VMK.xls
rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportvDatastore2xls -d C:\Temp -f vDatastore.xls
rvtools -u Administrator -p password -s 192.168.2.215 -c ExportvHealth2xls -d C:\Temp -f vHealth.xls

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Batch commands

Since version 3.1 there is an example batch file deployed in the RVTools program
file directory.

rem #########################
rem Name RVToolsBatch
rem By RobWare
rem Date March 2011
rem Version 1.0
rem #########################

rem =====================================
rem Include robware/rvtools in searchpath
rem =====================================
set path=%path%;c:\program files (x86)\robware\rvtools

rem =========================
rem Set environment variables
rem =========================
set $VCServer=<your vc server>
set $SMTPserver=<your smtp server>
set $SMTPport=<your smtp port, default = 25>
set $Mailto=<mail address>
set $Mailfrom=<mail sender address>
set $AttachmentDir=<directory name, example c:\temp>
set $AttachmentFile=<file name, example RVTools.xls>

rem ===================
rem Start RVTools batch
rem ===================
rvtools.exe -passthroughAuth -s %$VCServer% -c ExportAll2xls -d %$AttachmentDir% -f
%$AttachmentFile%

rem =========
rem Send mail
rem =========
rvtoolssendmail.exe /smtpserver %$SMTPserver% /smtpport %$SMTPport% /mailto
%$Mailto% /mailfrom %$Mailfrom% /attachment %$AttachmentDir%\%$AttachmentFile%

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