Software-update: RVTools 2.5.5

Voor het beheren van een VMware-omgeving bestaan er verschillende applicaties, elk met een eigen toepassingsgebied. RVTools is zo'n applicatie; het programma toont informatie van virtuele machines door te communiceren met VirtualCenter 2.x of ESX 3.x. Voor meer informatie verwijzen we jullie door naar deze pagina. De ontwikkelaar heeft enkele dagen geleden versie 2.5.5 uitgebracht, voorzien van de volgende lijst met veranderingen:

Version 2.5.5:

• 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:

• 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:

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