Owner's Manual

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• Virtual machines associated to a host are shown on the right pane when
you click the host server in the left pane.
Inventory
Classic ESX
The hardware inventory is shown using Dell OpenManage™ Server
Administrator SNMP agent.
Prerequisites for inventorying the Classic ESX servers are as follows:
• Server Administrator is installed on the server
• SNMP service is enabled on the server
• SNMP is enabled in the connection profile that is used in
the inventory task.
HyperV
The hardware inventory is shown using Server Administrator SNMP or
WMI agent.
Prerequisites for inventorying the HyperV servers are:
• Server Administrator is installed on the server
• SNMP or WMI service is enabled on the server
• SNMP or WMI or both are enabled in the connection profile that is used
in the inventory task.
Embedded ESX
The hardware inventory is shown using the CIM providers provided by
VMware. The information will be gathered using the WSMAN protocol.
Prerequisites for inventorying the Embedded ESX servers are:
• WSMAN service is enabled on the server.
• WSMAN is enabled in the connection profile that is used in the
inventory task.
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