A collection of VMware Community saved vSphere Inventory Recordings using the govc utility. For more details, please refer to this blog post.
Download or clone this repository and then use the vcsim utility to load a specific recording.
$GOPATH/bin/vcsim -load vcsim-vcsa.primp-industries.local
export GOVC_URL=https://user:pass@127.0.0.1:8989/sdk GOVC_SIM_PID=34680
To contribute your vSphere Inventory to this repository.
Step 1 - Run the following command to set your vSphere endpoint
export GOVC_URL=https://your-vcenter-hostname-or-ip/sdk
export GOVC_USERNAME=your-vcenter-username
export GOVC_PASSWORD=your-vcenter-password
export GOVC_INSECURE=1
Step 2 - Save your recording, run the govc object.save command:
$GOPATH/bin/govc object.save
Saved 111 total objects to "vcsim-vcsa.primp-industries.local", including:
ClusterComputeResource: 3
Datastore: 3
DistributedVirtualPortgroup: 4
Folder: 11
HostDatastoreBrowser: 3
HostDatastoreSystem: 2
HostNetworkSystem: 2
HostSystem: 2
HostVirtualNicManager: 2
ResourcePool: 6
Task: 2
VirtualMachine: 20
Step 3 - Create a README.md file inside of the saved vSphere Inventory directory that contains the text output from the object.save govc command. See README.md for an example and this will help users understand the inventory configuration
Step 4 - Create a Github pull request that includes the following:
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i. Saved vSphere Inventory directory
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ii. Update the table below with your contributions
| Submitter | Date | Version | Directory |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Lam | 01/02/21 | VMware Cloud on AWS 1.13 | vcsim-vcenter.sddc-35-167-62-16.vmwarevmc.com |
| William Lam | 01/02/21 | vSphere 7.0 Update 1c (Build 17327586) | vcsim-vcsa.primp-industries.local |
| Timo Sugliani | 01/06/21 | vSphere 6.7 Update 3 (Build 17138064) | vcsim-vc01.rax.lab |
| Romain Decker | 01/07/21 | vSphere 7.0 Update 1c (Build 17327586) | vcsim-vcsa01-z67.sddc.lab |
| Patrick Kremer | 01/08/21 | VMware Cloud on AWS 1.12 | vcsim-vcenter.sddc-35-193-232-224.vmwarevmc.com |