Looking for a better way to inventory and audit your Proxmox environment? Would you like to have a RVTools for Proxmox? In this video, I take a deep dive into PVEViewer, a free Windows utility that connects to your Proxmox VE cluster using the REST API and provides a powerful overview of your hosts, virtual machines, storage, snapshots, health checks, and the ability to export to an Excel spreadsheet. We take a look at the install process, connecting it to a Proxmox VE Cluster and collecting information. If you manage a Proxmox home lab or production environment, this is definitely a tool worth checking out.
Download the tool here: https://pveviewer.com/
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https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2026/07/i-tried-this-new-proxmox-inventory-and-auditing-tool-and-i-was-impressed/
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⏱️ Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:54 Sponsor: NAKIVO Backup & Replication
01:32 What is PVEViewer?
02:19 Downloading and launching PVEViewer
03:00 Themes and dark mode
03:39 Connecting to your Proxmox cluster
04:23 Virtual machine inventory overview
05:08 Resource utilization and VM details
05:57 Health checks and best practice recommendations
07:12 Disk auditing features
07:53 Snapshot management
08:25 Host inventory
08:57 Storage overview
09:13 Cluster information
09:45 Host configuration backups
10:37 What this backup feature is (and isn’t)
10:54 Multi-cluster support
11:24 Command-line interface and automation
12:01 Current limitations
12:29 Exporting inventory to Excel
13:01 Final thoughts
