Data collected for VMware Cloud Discovery

  • Release version: Xanadu
  • Updated August 1, 2024
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    • Discovery collects information about VMware resources in your cloud service accounts.

    Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) discovery

    VMware Discovery collects these DRS settings and saves them to the DRS VM Config [cmdb_ci_drs_vm_config] table:
    • DRS settings of vCenter clusters.
    • DRS settings of VMs configured to override cluster behavior.
    Table 1. DRS VM Config [cmdb_ci_drs_vm_config]
    Field label Column name
    Cluster cluster
    DRS behavior drs_behavior
    DRS enabled drs_enabled
    Virtual machine virtual_machine

    VMware tags

    VMware Cloud Discovery finds VMware tags from vCenter and saves them to the Key Value [cmdb_key_value] table.
    Table 2. Key Values [cmdb_key_value]
    Field label and name Description
    Configuration item [configuration_item] Referenced VM with tag attached in vCenter.
    Key [key] Category name of the tag applied to the resource in vCenter.
    Tag [tag] Source in vCenter from which tags are fetched. In this case, the value is always Tags.
    Value [value] Tag name that is applied to the resource in vCenter.