ESX / vSphere Inventory

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ESX / vSphere Inventory

This inventory method gathers data on virtual guests and host configurations from a VMware vSphere instance or single VMware ESX hosts. RayVentory Scan Engine has experimental support for VMware Workstation instances as well, but their data is not taken into account in all of the related reports.

This method operates on targets of type ESX / vSphere.

 

Zero-Touch Inventory by VMware API via HTTP(S)

Description

Zero-Touch VSphere / ESX inventory using the VMware Management API via HTTP(S).

 

Technical details

Used credential type:

oESX / vSphere

Required capabilities:

oZero-touch

Prerequisites:

oNone