Discovering VMWare endpoints

Naturally, there will be additional VMs created within the VMWare environment. As such, we will need the new machines to be reflected in ACI.

We can do this manually.

How to do it…

1. From the VM Networking tab, open up the VMWare menu, and click on the switch that was created earlier.
2. Right-click on the vCenter name in the Properties window.

 

 

3. Select Trigger Inventory Sync.

4. Click on YES to the message that pops up.

How it works…

When we trigger the inventory sync, ACI polls the connected vCenter servers and pulls in a list of all the virtual machines.

Here are the statistics before the sync:

Notice that ACI sees 10 virtual machines.

After the update, we can see 11 virtual machines.

Note

We do not need to perform manual updates all the time, however, as the APIC will do this automatically as well.