Thursday 14 August 2014

How to Export your VM Inventory list from vCenter

How to Export your VM Inventory list from vCenter



Steps to Export your VM Inventory list from VMware vCenter

1- Open the vSphere Client and connect to your vCenter
2- From the top menu go to View ==> Inventory ==> VMs & Templates
3- From the inventory list on the left side choose the VMs you want to include in your inventory export or choose a top level folder that includes the VMs you want to export
4- Choose the Virtual Machines tab from the the tabs on the top of the right side.
5- You might want to modify the filter to include other items like Virtual machines IPs, Hostname, & the similar.
6- From the top menu go to File => Export => Export list.
7- Choose the format you want to save the list into (CSV, Html, & XML are some of the available format).

1 comment:

  1. your steps wise explanation is clear, can you include screen shots to get clear ideas, because its so helpful to do manually.
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