I posted an answer in http://developer.bmc.com regarding how TD 1.4
populates CMDB.

Van Wiles
Atrium Core Engineering Services
BMC Software

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drew Shuller
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 1:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: CI Class for Virtual servers

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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