3.1 Discovering Existing Virtual Machines
You can use VMs you have previously created or VMs you have built by using other hypervisors in your data center. To make use of these VMs, you need to run a discover job. You use the ZENworks Orchestrator Console to detect the VMware Server, VMware Virtual Center, and Xen VM host machines.
After you have detected the host machines, you can detect the VMs contained on the host machines and in other VM storage repositories. This search seeks VMs stored already on the host machines and any Gold Master versions of the VMs stored in the VM Warehouse. This discovery process applies to Xen, VMware Server, and VMware Virtual Center VMs.
NOTE:The following steps assume that you have already discovered and incorporated all physical resources of the data center, including the host machine (which lists as a physical resource). If you have not done this, see Section 2.2.1, Discovering Physical Resources. For information on discovering VM host machines, see Section 2.2.4, Discovering Virtual Machine Hosts.
To discover VMs in the entire data center:
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In the ZENworks Orchestrator Console, click > .
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Select the provisioning adapter.
For information on provisioning adapters, see Section 4.0, Provisioning Virtual Machines.
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Select the source repository or repositories.
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Click to add the source repository to the target repository list.
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Click when you are finished adding source repositories.
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Look at the Jobs view in the ZENworks Orchestrator Console to verify that the job to add source repositories has started.
When you discover VMs, they are listed both under their specific VM technology and under the VMs section in the ZENworks VM Management Console, as shown in the following figure:
Figure 3-1 Resource Tree with VMs in Explorer Window of the ZENworks Orchestrator Console
