RVTools 4.7.1 is a Windows .NET 4.7.2 application which uses VMware vSphere Management SDK 8.0 and CIS REST API to display information about your virtual environments.

RVTools has been a widely used utility for VMware environments for the past 15 years, helping users make accurate decisions around planning, deploying, and managing complex workloads. It has been voted a top VMware utility many times by independent parties.

Since 2008, RVTools has been downloaded more than 2 million times and is a ubiquitous utility, familiar and trusted by VMware administrators. There is no fee to use RVTools, and it is made available to any user without obligation. RVTools’ outputs are commonly used and accepted formats by many industry planning tools that help users gain insight into their VMware virtualization environments.

In 2023, Dell Technologies acquired RVTools technology. Dell is committed to keeping RVTools available as a no cost public download, so it can continue to be an open asset for the technical community. RVTools is a companion offering to Dell Live Optics™, which is also freely available to users. While RVTools is focused on VMware, Live Optics provides similar insights for physical servers, cloud deployments, storage infrastructure, file and data protection environments. These two software offers can be used together or independently.

Version 4.7.1 has been released on October 3, 2024 with the following improvements:

• FIXED:
  • Issue deserializing data on systems with VMs requiring consolidation.
  • Issue reporting vCLS appliances folder names as inconsistent.
  • Issue reporting Site Recovery Manager Placeholder VM’s folder names as inconsistent.
  • Issue with RVTools crashing on systems with FIPS enabled.
  • Issue with numeric string values being converted to scientific notation in Excel.
  • Issue with occasional password decryption failures.
• UPDATED:
  • Upgraded RVTools solution to use VMware vSphere Management SDK 8u3
  • Upgraded Target .Net Framework to 4.7.2
  • Upgraded RVTools Social Media link

RVTools 4.7.1 can be downloaded from this page.