Specifications

Basic System Administration
110 VMware, Inc.
 Networks–InVirtualCenterServeronly.Childobjecttodatacenters.Networksare
discoveredwhenhostsareaddedtotheVMwareInfrastructureenvironment.
SeetheESXServer3ConfigurationGuideorESXServer3iConfigurationGuidefor
comprehensiveinformationonconfiguringESXServernetw orks.
 Datastores–InVirtualCenterServeronly.Childobjecttodatacenters.Datastores
arediscoveredwhenhostsareaddedtotheVMwareInfrastructureenvironment.
Thisincludesthediscoveryofdatastoresthatarelocaltothemanagedhostaswell
asdatastoresontheSANorNAS.
SeetheESXServer3ConfigurationGuide
orESXServer3iConfigurationGuidefor
comprehensiveinformationonconfiguringESXServerdatastores.
Adding an Inventory Object
Eachinventoryobjectcanbeaddedonlytoitscorrespondinghierarchicalparent.Only
permissibleobjectsarelistedontheparentmenus.Thesepairingsareasfollows:
To add an inventory object
1FromaVIClient,displaytheappropriateinventoryview.
2 Selecttheappropriateparenticonintheinventorypanel.Fromthepop‐upmenu,
chooseNew <Object>
where<Object>isafolder ,datacenter,cluster,resource
pool,host,orvirtualmachine.
 Ifthenewobjectisafolderordatacenter,anewiconisaddedtotheinventory.
Forexample,anewdatacenterisaddedtothehierarchy.Typeinausefulname.