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Reading Time: 2 minutesSome days ago, the official site for RVTools has been hacked and the installer for the popular VMware environment reporting utility has been compromised to deliver Bumblebee Malware. The official web sites, Robware.net and RVTools.com, are currently offline to avoid any additional distribution of this malware.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNote: on March 2025 the RVTools web site has been hacked! Verify when you downloaded the utility! 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 […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesRVTools technology was just acquired by Dell Technologies from its original founder, Rob de Veij. Rob is still supporting the program as part of the Dell team. 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 has been a widely used utility for VMware environments for the past 15 years, helping users make accurate decisions around planning, deploying, and managing virtual infrastructures.
Reading Time: 2 minutesRVTools is a Windows .NET 4.6.1 application, easy to be install and useful to display informations about your vSphere virtual environments. Probably it’s one of the most used application to collect information from a vSphere environment with more than 1,2 million copies downloaded! RVTools supports all version of vSphere starting from version 3.5 (when still was called Virtual Infrastructure) through the latest vSphere 7.0… with or without vCenter Server!
Reading Time: 2 minutesRVTools is a Windows .NET application, easy to be install which uses the VI API to collect and display informations about your vSphere virtual environments. Probably it’s one of the most used application to collect information from a vSphere environment with more than 1 million copies downloaded! RVTools supports all version of vSphere starting from version 3.5 (when still was called Virtual Infrastructure) through the latest vSphere 6.7… with or without vCenter Server!
Reading Time: 3 minutesRVTools is a Windows .NET application, easy to be install which uses the VI API to collect and display informations about your vSphere virtual environments. RVTools supports ESX Server 3.5, VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX Server 3i, ESX Server 4i, VirtualCenter 4.x, ESX 4.x, VirtualCenter 5.0, VirtualCenter Appliance, ESX 5.0, VirtualCenter 5.5, ESX 5.5, VirtualCenter 6.0, ESX 6.0, VirtualCenter 6.5 and ESX 6.5, so all you can have (also legacy versions) in a datacenter. And it’s totally free. After 10 months from the last version, now it’s available the new Version 3.10 (February, 2018).
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe mitigations for Meltdown and Spectre issues have involved a combination of different type of fixes: some software based, such as Microsoft and Linux versions of the “kernel page table isolation” protection, but also fome hardware based, like the Intel’s microcode updates (part that is still missing in most cases). Both type of patches can cause performance overheads and have some kind of impact on your environment. But how can you estimate it (before apply the patches) and how can you measure it (when the patches have been applied)?
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