A Discovery schedule for VMware virtualization can discover vCenter and ESX hosts as well as individual ESXi hosts that manage VMs and related components without a vCenter.

These options are available for getting VMware vCenter data:
  • Discovery runs the VMware - vCenter Datacenters probe when it identifies a VMware vCenter process running on a Windows machine or detects activity with the vmapp port probe.
  • Classic Orchestration can run any of the vCenter probes from a workflow

To discover VMware data without a vCenter, use standalone ESXi discovery.

Note: See the knowledge article KB0687582 for information on model_id and manufacturer.