VMware API integration to pull resource pools and integrate with Groups in Orion NPM

The Virtualization Tab provides a great deal of information . . . but there is one thing lacking. It would be ideal if we could pull resource pools out of the hosts and/or vCenter into the Orion Database. Then map the Resource Pools to Groups in Orion.

We are using Groups to give users insight into their physicals and virtuals in Orion . . . in vCenter we group our VMs by using Resource Pools. If I could create one-to-one map of a Resource Pool to a Group in Orion, I could cut down on a large number of query rules that I have to create whenever I create a new Group and ensure that the VMs can be groups properly in Orion especially when the name is not something that is being looked at by a Group query.

Even if I could map the Resource Pool to a custom property I could then maybe map the group to the custom property?

Anyone figure out how to do this already or is this a feature request?

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byrona

I would absolutely love to see the resource pools also as that is how we logically group things in vCenter.

GZhytar

Thanks for your feedback folks. I've captured this in out tracking system as case 80661

byrona

Here is the interesting part, I took a look an the Resource Pool information is stored in the Orion database.

brian3

I found it too! "VIM_ResourcePools"

That should mean it is a no brainer for Solarwinds to release in the very near future!!!

I think this would be huge for me. While there are other tools out there that can pull resource pools and do showback/chargeback out of vCenter on VMs, not many can combine physical and virtual systems on one dashboard easily. Making a Resource Pool match a Group would give a quick and easy way to set up a dashboard based off of the logical structure of the Resource Pools!!!