Sri,
We may have different business rules than you do, but our customer's
philosophy is that since VMWare moves virtual servers at will depending on
system resources, we'll count them all as just Servers.
If VMWARE isdynamically allocating resources, then how often would you
have to run discovery on the virtual servers, and how long would that data
be valid? You would be doing a lot of work to have a snapshot of your
virtual server configuration that could change at any minute. It may be
enough to know if a server is a host (by setting a menu on the
ComputerSystem form) and then let the server admins find out the rest when they need to know it.
This also makes sense from a change control point of view in that, well,
there's no change control the way our customer runs VMWARE. YMMV.
Drew
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Srikanth wrote:
Which CI class should be used for the tracking the virtual servers?
In our current environment(CMDB 2.0), we have the servers in the
Computer System CI.
We are planning to put the virtual servers into the Virtual System
Class and related them to the Hosted server(Computer System) using the
Dependency Relationship. Is this the correct way of representing the
virtual servers and their relationship.
In future, we plan to integrate with both Marimba and Topology
discovery. Is there anything extra, we need to consider keeping this
in view?
Please let me know your views.
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