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Virtual Host VMware Environment Objects

CA SRM collects information about the following virtual host VMware environment objects:

Virtual Host Server

Objects representing the physical servers of your virtual host environment. Virtual Host Servers provides a virtualization layer that abstracts the processor, memory, storage, and networking resources of the physical host into multiple virtual machines.

Virtual Guests

Objects representing virtual machines. The virtual machine is called a Virtual Guest. Collection of virtual guests comprises a host (ESX) server. You can run multiple virtual guests on the same host at the same time.

Snapshots

Objects representing the snapshot of your virtual machine. Snapshots let you preserve the state of a virtual machine so that you can return to the same state at any given time. A snapshot captures the entire state of a virtual machine.

Datastores

Objects representing datastores. A datastore is a storage location for all the files that a virtual machine uses for configuration and disks. To a host, a datastore is a storage abstraction that is backed by one of the following types of storage volumes:

• Local file system
• Network Attached Storage (NAS) volume
• Storage Area Network (SAN) volume

Extents

Objects representing extents of your virtual host environment. Extents are drawn from storage devices and a datastore is a collection of extents. Extents lets you increase the size of the existing VMware File system partition.

Storage Devices

Objects representing storage devices. A storage device may represent a storage Lun exported from a disk array, a local disk or a network file system. CA SRM reports the details of the Storage Device and in case of a Lun, it provides a zoom to the Ldev of the disk array if the disk array is discovered.

HBAs

Objects representing host bus adapters. A HBA, or Host Bus Adapter, is the interface card which connects a host to a SAN (Storage Area Network).

Virtual HBAs

Objects representing all the virtual HBAs (NPIV). A N-Port ID Virtualization or NPIV, is an ANSI T11 standard that describes how a single Fiber Channel HBA port can register with the fabric using several worldwide port names (WWPNs).

Virtual Guest Data Files

Objects representing the permanent/temporary files like Virtual Hard Disks, Snapshots, Configuration files, Log files, and Memory files that are used by a Virtual Guest. One or more Virtual Hard Disks is assigned to a Virtual Guest for its usage.

Note: To ensure that the Windows Client displays the most recent data collection, you may need to refresh open user views.