How to discover VMware virtual appliance (no vcenter)

[ditu]

We have to discover VMware virtual appliance and VPx. There is no vCenter here. How can we do that? 

[VivekSattanatha · Accepted solution]

But since the vmapp is triggering VMWare - vCenter Datacenters probe, would we still get the ESX and VM information? 

 - Yes, you will get the ESX and all the VM resources from VMWare probes.

[ditu]

Thank you so much. Is this documented anywhere? 

R

[jimmillet]

I am still baffled by this. My client has vcenter appliance. Shazzam detects port 22 and http port, but soon the discovery stops, with credential issues. We do have read only ID set up on the Vcenter, but the VMWare probes never get triggered since they need "command contains vpxd" from running process, which never happens since OS discovery is prevented.

So, how are we supposed to run discovery on these vcenter appliances?

[jcanjura]

Did you find a solution for this issue?

We're facing the same problem.

[ravinder2601]

Hi jcanjura, Did you get a breakthrough on this ?