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Virtual Inventory

The BMC adapter for VMware remotely monitors the Virtual Center (VC) or ESX server (host) using web services and discovers the VMware entities such as ESX servers, Virtual Machines (VMs), clusters, resource pools, and their relationships, on a periodic basis. The

Virtual Inventory report lists virtual entities such as ESX Hosts or VMs, Clusters or ESX Hosts, and Resource Pools/VMs, along with their performance attributes. This report also lists the various configuration attributes and supports drilling down to individual line graphs.

Note

If an ESX Host exists without VMs underneath it, the sub report generated with that option is empty.

The report lists:

  • ESX Hosts and VMs belonging to the Hosts for a given VC(s) group and displays the physical view of the devices 
  • Resource Pool and VMs for a given VC(s) group and displays the logical view of the devices 
  • Cluster and ESX Hosts for a given VC(s) group and shows the logical view of the devices. The ESX in clusters can be drilled down to the VMS underneath it.

The following table lists the attributes specific to Virtual Inventory report that must be specified along with the common attributes.

Virtual Inventory report attributes 

Attributes

Description

Sub Report Selection

  • Available Groups-shows a list of all groups. However, autocreated groups by VMware group has the type of group listed in parentheses against each group. Select the group that is considered to generate the report.
  • Show Virtual Entities-displays the entities you select. The common attributes for a given pair of entities change when you specify a different entity.
  • ESX Hosts/VMs
  • Resource Pools/VMs
  • Clusters/ESX Hosts
  • Select Attributes-add or delete attributes to be included in the report. You can search for the available attributes in the Search for field. The Attribute set depends on the entity pair selected for the Virtual Inventory report (ESX Hosts/VMs or Resource Pools/VMs or Clusters/ESX Hosts). By default, common attributes for the entities selected are in the Selected Attributes box, and the Available Attributes box lists all the uncommon attributes of the entity pair.
  • Sub Report Title-specify the title for the sub report 

Add Sub Report

Append subreports to the Added Sub Report section. For more information, see Common report attributes.

Report Options

Select the options from the list. For more information, see Common report attributes.

Consider Baseline

The baseline data is used for computation. Select either Hourly, Daily, or Weekly baselines for generating the report.

 

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