Browsing VMware virtual assets

The live browse capability makes it easy to see what is in your virtual inventory, and to verify information such as the number of virtual machines on a host server, how many are multi-NIC, and so on.

To browse VMware virtual assets

Prior to browsing VMware virtual assets, you must have distributed the vCenter configuration object on the vCenter server, as described in Setting-up-TrueSight-Server-Automation-for-virtual-environments.

Note

To live browse a virtual node inventory, you must log on as a user whose role has the following additional authorizations:

  • PropertyInstance.Read authorization
  • Connection PropertyInstance.Read
  1. In the Servers folder, navigate to a VMware vCenter server.
  2. Right-click the server and select Browse.
  3. In the Live Browse tab or the content editor, expand the Live node.

  4. Expand the VMware vCenter Server server object type to display the nodes.

 

Tip: For faster searching, add an asterisk to the end of your partial query. Example: cert*