Inventory Snapshot

[LEFT][COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][COLOR=#ff0000][B]InventorySnapshot[/B][FONT=Arial] [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]allows a user to "snapshot" a given vCenter inventory configuration and then reproduce it. The "inventory" includes the Datacenter folders, datacenters, clusters, resource pools, vApps, hierarchy, roles and permissions, configuration settings, and custom fields. In other words, if you have an inventory with a given set of hosts and VMs organized into a group of clusters, we can faithfully reproduce this environment, including the cluster settings and custom roles you may have defined. As a simple example, suppose you have an inventory with one datacenter (DC A), one cluster (Cluster A), and two hosts (Host A and Host B). At a high level, our fling emits a PowerCLI script that, when executed, does the following:[/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT]
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[*=left][COLOR=#000000]Creates Datacenter “DC A.”[/COLOR]
[*=left][COLOR=#000000]Creates cluster “Cluster A.”[/COLOR]
[*=left][COLOR=#000000]Adds host “Host A” to “Cluster A.”[/COLOR]
[*=left][COLOR=#000000]Adds host “Host B” to “Cluster A.”[/COLOR][/LIST][LEFT][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial]Notice that this can be helpful for a variety of reasons. For example, suppose you’ve spent a lot of time creating a development vCenter environment, and now you wish to deploy it in production. Using our fling, you can snapshot your “dev” environment and then run it against the “production” vCenter server, saving you the task of laboriously adding each host, creating the proper clusters and resource pools, etc

[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#ff0000]Prerequisites[/COLOR]
Java 1.6.0_23 or higher
To run InventorySnapshot, you must have Java installed. We require version 1.6.0_23 or higher, and you can use either the JRE or the JDK. If Java is not already installed on your system, please visit [url=http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html]Java SE Downloads[/url] and download Java SE 6 Update 23.
PowerCLI 4.1.U1 or higher
To run InventorySnapshot, you must have the VMware PowerCLI installed. In our case, we have tested with version 4.1U1, build 332441. To download this, please see the following URL: [url=http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI]vSphere PowerCLI Documentation[/url]. Note that to complete this step, you will also need to install Powershell, as discussed in the PowerCLI documentation.
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[CODE][/FONT]http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmw-tools/inventorysnapshot/inventorysnapshot1-1.zip[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/CODE][/FONT]

Documentation[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][CODE][/FONT]http://labs.vmware.com/download/136/[FONT=Arial][/CODE]

Sample Video
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