RVtools Education & Inventory Auditing
Course Code: LSI-RVT-101 | Department of Virtualization Studies | Kingsbury, NY
A Comprehensive Syllabus for Infrastructure Operators
The RVtools Education course at LaRoche Skills Institute is designed for IT professionals seeking an exhaustive understanding of virtual infrastructure inventory extraction, performance health checks, and capacity reporting.
Students investigate the internal data points queried by RVTools, connecting via vCenter VI APIs to extract cluster, host, and VM metadata. Beyond simple GUI navigation, the course explores automated scheduled batch runs, cryptographic credential protection, and the translation of raw spreadsheets into executive audit reports.
Detailed Curricular Units
Unit 1: API Security Architecture & Service Delegation
Configuring dedicated, least-privilege read-only vCenter service accounts. SSL/TLS thumbprint verification and preventing production load spikes during large queries.
Unit 2: Virtual Machine Inventory & Telemetry Parsing
Deciphering vInfo, vCPU, and vMemory metrics. Auditing provisioned vCPUs against physical cores, identifying guest memory ballooning, and cataloging VMware Tools statuses.
Unit 3: Datastore Space, Orphaned VMDKs & Multipathing
Using vDisk, vDatastore, and vMultipath tabs to detect disconnected disks, calculate datastore overcommitment ratios, and audit redundant storage paths.
Unit 4: Snapshot Hygiene & vHealth Error Triage
Locating stale snapshots over operational thresholds, investigating zombie delta files, and methodically triaging vHealth severity warnings.
Unit 5: Automated CLI Batch Runs & Report Synthesis
Building scheduled PowerShell batch wrappers for unattended execution, automated password encryption, and multi-tab Excel reporting synthesis.
Course Particulars
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