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Steph_Zylstra's avatar
Steph_Zylstra
9 years ago

Group VM instances in VMware by VDC/Resource Pool

I would love to see the "ESX VM" datasource allow grouping its instances by the VDC/Resource Pool in which each VM is contained. Use case: Each VDC in our infrastructure may have different al...
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Sarah_Terry's avatar
Sarah_Terry
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9 years ago

We're thinking of adding an option to group based on instance level properties, which would work for your use case (where resource pool would be an instance level property of the ESX instances) - but this is still in the works.  API functionality related to instance grouping will be published in v82 (late October).  For an immediate workaround, you could use our Regular Expression automatic grouping method (which may require that you change how instances are named).