Inventory Page and Inventory Detailed View

You can view details of vCenter Servers from the Inventory page. You can also view a detailed list of the inventory in your VMware Aria Operations environment where the objects are grouped logically. When you select an object from the detailed view, you see information such as summary information, metrics, alerts, capacity, compliance, and other details specific to the selected object.

Inventory Page

To access the Inventory page, select Inventory from the left panel.

Note: If you see the Inventory detailed view, click Basic View at the top in the Inventory panel.

The Inventory page lists the vCenter Servers that have been configured. At the top of the page, you can view environment details such as the number of VCF accounts, vCenter accounts, data centers, clusters, hosts, VMs, and datastores.

Table 1. Options in the Data Grid of the Inventory Page

Option	Description
vCenter Name	Displays the names of the vCenter Server that are configured.
Type	Displays all account types.
Data centers	Displays the number of data centers in the environment.
vSphere Clusters	Displays the number of vSphere clusters that have been configured.
Hosts	Displays the number of hosts in the environment.
Virtual Machines	Displays the number of VMs in the environment.
Datastores	Displays the number of datastores in the environment.

Inventory Detailed View

The Inventory detailed view is a panel that displays different types of logical grouping/hierarchies for the objects in the VMware Aria Operations environment. You can view either a tree or list view and then select the object to view object related information.

To access the Inventory Detailed View, from the left panel, click Inventory, and then click on a vCenter Server instance from the data grid or click Detailed View from the top. You will see the Inventory panel with the Inventory detailed view.

Table 2. Options from the Inventory Detailed View

Option	Description
Tree view and List view	Toggle between the options to view the inventory in either a tree view or a list view. When you select a certain object your view is scoped around that object. In the list view, you can see all the descendant and ancestor objects of the selected object. When you double click on any of the objects in the list view, you change the scope and the new object becomes the primary object of the view. You can select the number of ancestors or descendants for the object you want to view from the Levels option.
vSphere Hosts and Clusters	Select a vSphere host or cluster object to view the object details.
vSphere Storage	Select a vSphere Storage object to view the object details.
vSphere Networking	Select a vSphere Networking object to view the object details.
Custom Group and Datacenters	Select an object from Custom Groups, Custom Datacenters, or Business Applications to view the object details.
Integrations	Select an object from Others and All Objects to view the object details.

Note: If there are more than ten objects under a section in the Inventory detailed view, you can search for an object using the Search option. If there are more than thousand objects in a section, use the View More button under the last object that is displayed, to view the rest of the objects. Use the Type to see more button to find objects if there are more than two thousand objects.