Viewing a virtual machine
A virtual machine object in BMC Discovery represents a discovered virtual machine, running either locally, or in a cloud. Virtual machines are set up automatically by the BMC Discovery process.
To view a virtual machine
- From the main menu, select Explore > Data.
- In the Hosts & Containers section, click Virtual Machines.
- Select a virtual machine from the list.
The details of the virtual machine that you selected are displayed in a new page, as displayed in the following screenshot.
The information fields for a typical virtual machine are described in the following table:
Field name | Details |
|---|---|
Name | Name of this virtual machine. |
Type | Type of virtual machine, for example, Microsoft Azure VM. |
Cloud Hosted | Shows whether or not the VM is cloud hosted. |
Cloud Class | Vendor classification of cloud VM. |
Configipedia Page | Link to the Configipedia page. |
Instance Count | Number of VM instances. |
Cloud Service | Cloud service on which this VM is running. |
Public IP Address | Public IP address of this cloud VM. |
Private IP Address | Private IP address of this cloud VM. |
Tags | Tag or tags applied to the virtual machine, as returned from the vCenter server. |
Contained Virtual Host | Virtual host provided by this VM. |
VM Type | The VM technology on which this VM instance is based on. |
VM Name | The name of this VM. |
VM UUID | The UUID of this VM. |
Load Balancer | Load balancing member for which this VM is implementing a service. |
Administrative Collections | A collection which this VM is a part of. |
Maintaining Pattern | The pattern that maintains this VM. |
Instance Id | Instance Id of this VM. |
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