Should we use DNS for discovery range definitions?

[Ravish Shetty]

Hello all,

We are starting with Discovery and someone in the team recommended we use DNS especially for vCenter discovery instead of hardcoded IP addresses.

1: Is this possible to use DNS for vCenter discovery?

2: Can we also use DNS for horizontal discovery for servers? If yes, is that a good idea over specifying subnets instead?

Thanks,

Ravish

[Tanushree Maiti]

Hi @Ravish Shetty 

As per KB : KB0750033 Discovery not populating IP address field for vCenter ESX server CIs 

DNS Lookup is required to allow vCenter Discovery to collect the IP address information from the ESX servers. 

Also check: KB0813327 Understand vCenter Discovery process and troubleshooting 

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