VMware vCenter Network - Upstream and Downstream Relationships

[hanaphouse]

I am trying to understand the upstream and downstream relationships of in a VMware vCenter Network and here are some of my questions:

• What is a "Hosted on" downstream relationship?
• What is a "Connects" upstream relationship?

Here's one of the sample:

[Rahul Priyadars · Accepted solution]

Refer this KB for detailed relationships between VCenter Components.

https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0813327

I think it's important to understand that upstream/downstream only reflect the relationship type in the CMDB. If you look at the cmdb_rel_ci table, you'll have a parent and child CI. From the context of a given CI, its parents are considered upstream by nature of this table relationship. Similarly, a CI's children are considered downstream solely because of the way this relationship is defined.

Please click Show relationships Button for more clarity

Regards

RP