It does it fast and in a format that readily exports to Excel. It is able to list information about VMs, CPU, Memory, Disks, Partitions, Network, Floppy drives, CD drives, Snapshots, VMware tools, Resource pools, Clusters, ESX hosts, HBAs, NICs, Switches, Ports, Distributed Switches, Distributed Ports, Service consoles, VM Kernels, Datastores, multi-path info, license info and health checks. RVTools is a VMware utility that connects to your vCenter server and captures every bit of information about your virtual machines (VMs) and your ESXi hosts that you’d want to know. There are dozens of other tools that are quite possibly used more frequently than this top 10. Keep in mind these are only the top 10 that surfaced in my recent poll.
Since our podcast only covered the top 10, I want to share all the great tools I discovered in this exercise. As expected, the usual suspects surfaced to the top (i.e RVTools, PowerCLI) but I was amazed at just how many tools were mentioned that I hadn’t heard of. In preparation for this discussion I took to social media to get a general consensus of the most popular tools VMware admins are using these days. On Episode 108 of the Virtually Speaking Podcast, John and I welcomed Duncan Epping and William Lam to discuss the various VMware tools used to manage environments.
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