RVTools - The Ultimate free VMware Tool you need to have!

RVTools is an excellent management and monitoring tool for VMware environments. It is one of the best free tools you can have for your VMware environment. We take a look at RVTools, what it is and how you can use it to pull the information you need from your vSphere environment. You can pull detailed information on the health and best practices in your VMware vSphere environment and do this all for free with RVTools.
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Introduction to a free VMware tool that is awesome - 0:00
Talking about VMware Flings and other tools - 0:54
Introducing RVTools from Robware.net - 1:14
RVTools is compatible with all versions of vSphere - 1:37
The types of information you can gather with RVTools - 2:09
Downloading and installing RVTools - 2:33
File downloaded - 3:24
Kicking off the installation process - 3:30
Logging into RVTools for the first time - 4:08
Looking at the RVTools interface for the first time - 4:50
Introducing the vHealth report from RVTools - 5:15
What is the vHealth tab and what checks does it make? 5:35
Introducing the Zombie VM and VMDK check in vHealth - 6:22
Describing Zombie VMDKs and how they happen - 6:27
Describing some of the other checks in vHealth found in RVTools - 7:24
Looking at the vHealth tab in RVTools - 8:00
Comparing the information you gather from RVTools and PowerCLI - 10:23
Looking at some of the information you can gather with RVTools - 11:12
Shout out to the developer Rob at Robware.net - 13:41
Concluding thoughts - 14:01
RVTools Homepage:
www.robware.net/rvtools/