Leni,

I"m not overly familiar with the Unix Inventory solutions, but I believe the data class you referenced is actually part of Inventory Solution for Servers (which AFAIK is a Windows-only product). I would expect that dataclass to be populated with data from VMWare GSX Servers running under Windows. The other possibility is that ESX 3.5 isn't supported yet by the UNIX toolset.

kschroeder is correct. ESX inventory is part of Inventory for Unix. It will populate the inv_aex_srv_virtualmachines table.



Inventory for Windows will populate the inv_aex_virtualmachine table.

Dear Kyle,



Hmmm. I have to disagree. I have already received the class:



AeX Srv VirtualMachines



is reported back and I know that the name "AeX Srv" *SEEMS* to be part of the Server class, but it was reported back by the Inventory for UNIX/Linux. Also, the Reference for Server Inventory says that the Product Name can be, for example, "ESX Server" (page 55).



I had heard that the AeX Srv VirtualMachines class does not get reported for ESX 3.5.0, but this is not the case with 3.5.0 - all of my VMs are reporting back (without the AeX Srv VMWare items).



Also, the classes have now been defined and the tables are empty.



Regards,





QuietLeni

I am running ESX 3.5. There is an issue with guest-host mapping - not with reporting the virtual machines themselves.



My ESX virtuals, regardless of their state, appear in inv_aex_srv_virtualmachines. Some of them, at least the running ones, also show in inv_aex_virtualmachine.



In 7.x, esx inventory will become part of Inventory Pack for Servers. Currently, ESX inventory is reported by Inventory for Unix.



If the tables are empty or certain virtual machines do not appear, then something is preventing the clients from running inventory or the data is not being processed or the data is being assigned to another machine in the database.