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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