About discovering the VMware Infrastructure using Veritas Operations Manager


About discovering the VMware Infrastructure using Veritas Operations Manager
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In Veritas Operations Manager, a managed host that is designated as a Control Host can discover the VMware Infrastructure.

The managed host on which you have installed the Control Host Add-on discovers the information on the following VMware infrastructure components in your datacenter:

VirtualCenter servers, which manage one or more ESX servers.
ESX servers on which the individual virtual machines are configured.

A VirtualCenter or an ESX server does not need to be a managed host to let the Control Host to discover them.

Ensure that the Control Hosts can ping the VirtualCenter servers or the ESX servers from which they can discover the information on VMware Infrastructure. Ideally, a Control Host and a VirtualCenter server or an ESX server from which the Control Host wants to discover the information on VMware Infrastructure must be on the same subnet.

The Control Host Add-on that you install on the designated Control Hosts contains the VMware Infrastructure SDK (VI SDK), which provides a standard interface for the VMware servers and the Control Hosts to access the VMware Infrastructure. A Control Host reports the information on the VMware Infrastructure that it discovers to Management Server. Management Server coalesces the data that it receives from the Control Host and populates the relevant views.

Note:

If you have installed Storage Insight Add-on 4.0, Veritas Operations Manager can correlate the storage that is visible to the ESX servers with the storage enclosures that Storage Insight Add-on supports.

In Veritas Operations Manager, you must configure the storage enclosure discovery using Storage Insight Add-on before you configure the discovery of the VirtualCenter and the ESX servers.

If you configure the storage enclosure discovery after you configure the discovery of the VirtualCenter and the ESX servers, then the storage enclosure details become visible to the ESX servers from the next discovery cycle.

A designated Control Host in Veritas Operations Manager discovers the following versions of VirtualCenter and ESX servers:

VirtualCenter Servers	From version 2.5 to version 4.1
ESX Servers	From version 3.5 to version 4.1

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