Viewing discovery output
The Device View provides a hierarchical scheme for display and monitoring of the virtual environment. The following logical groupings are automatically created based on information gathered during a VMware scan:
- VmwareScan. A logical container that contains all of the Datacenters, virtual hosts, and virtual machines discovered during a VMware scan.
- Datacenter. A logical container that contains all of the virtual machines managed by a vCenter server and the virtual hosts providing managed resources as reported to WhatsVirtual during a VMware scan.
Note: While a vCenter server may manage one or more datacenters, virtual machines cannot be moved using VMotion to a host outside of the datacenter of its original host.
- Cluster. A logical container that contains a group of hosts that share resources and enable the VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware High Availability (HA) solutions. A cluster lists the VMware hosts and virtual machines as reported to WhatsVirtual during a VMware scan.
A VMware Servers dynamic group identifies all VMware servers discovered during the discovery scan.
Discovered vCenter servers, virtual hosts and virtual machines can be viewed on the Map View. Select the Cluster or Datacenter you want to view from the Device Groups pane, then select the Map View. The selected vCenter, virtual hosts and all of the managed virtual machines appear on the Map View.
