Scan and Introspect vCenter Server

You must scan a vCenter server to discover all available VMs or VMs within a inventory like data centers, folders, clusters, resource pools. You can run the introspection process on the discovered VMs to identify running components.

Prerequisites

• Register vCenter.

• Ensure that you have the required permissions. For more information, see Overview Application Transformer for VMware Tanzu Roles.

• For introspection, you must have the valid credentials associated with the VMs. The VM user account should have the required permissions.

Procedure

1. Click Discovery from the main menu.
2. On the left navigation page, go to Inventory > vCenters.
3. Select a vCenter server from the table.
4. Click Scan and on the Scanning Options page.
   1. Select Apply Credential Policy to apply credential policy on the discovered VMs.
   2. Based on the your requirement, select one of the following:
   • Click No, Scan Only for discovering the VMs
   • Click Yes, Scan and Introspect for discovering the VMs and then discovering components running on those VMs.

What to do next

• View VM details.
• Assign Tags.
• Introspect the VMs.
• Discover Application Topology.