Table used to store VM for Azure

[bigfissy]

Previously Azure VM record were stored in the cmdb_ci_azure_vm table. Most recently online documentation from serviceNow show that the Virtual Server (cmdb_ci_vm_instance) table is used. 

Anyone knows the reason why the change? Is it based on the ServiceNow Cloud Management Platform having 2 versions - CMPv1 and CMPv2

Maybe a ServiceNow employee can respond on that 

[Nikora]

hello bigfissy,

in my company, whe had take the decision to keep "out of the box" class, we are still using common class as cmdb_ci_linux_server or cmdb_ci_win_server, and play with the model ID class to identify the provider, it is working find for us, we can report from cmdb_ci class and retrieved all relevents informations for our KPI,process and report.

maybe this new way cmdb_ci_vm_instance is more relevent, but my may is pretty good to identify on premise server between logical server on cloud, by playing with model_id,

VM instance VMWARE= model ID VMWARE

VM instance AZURE= model ID AZURE Instance

VM instance AWAS= model ID AWS EC2 

....

it is easier to report when you are managing onpremise and on cloud instance

hope can help;)

[bigfissy]

Apparently, ServiceNow retired using those tables per cloud provider. The table was used prior to migrating from CAPI-based cloud discovery to pattern-based discovery.