How Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager discovers vCenter and ESX servers

Last published : Jun 19, 2026
Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager uses designated Control Hosts to discover the information on the virtual machines. You must install the Control Host Add-on on the managed hosts that you want to designate as Control Hosts. Control Host uses the VMware Infrastructure SDK (VI SDK) to access the vCenter and the ESX servers.
When you configure the virtualization discovery in Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager, you must ensure that you have appropriate privileges to access the vCenter or the ESX servers. Also, you must ensure that you have Browse datastore privileges on the vCenter or the ESX servers from which you want to discover the VMware Infrastructure information.
From Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager 7.0 onwards, the default method of VMware discovery skips the datastore browsing. Due to this change, you can see the following differences in the data discovered using the previous versions of Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager and the data discovered using Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager 7.0:
  • Only those virtual disks are discovered that are attached to some VMware virtual machine.
  • Some of the virtual disk attributes are not discovered such as Physical Allocation, Used Capacity, % Utilization, and thin/non-thin.
If you require these details, the datastore browsing can be enabled by setting the datastore_browse flag to 1 in the virtualization.conf file.
For more information on configuration settings using the virtualization.conf file, see the Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager Installation and Configuration Guide.
The vCenter server contains a web server, which is an Apache Tomcat server. The web services that are hosted on the web server communicate with the VMware Infrastructure. After you configure a virtualization discovery, the Control Host uses VI SDK to communicate with the web services that are hosted on the web server. For this communication, the Control Host uses the HTTPS protocol.
The URL for the VMware SDK web services is as follows:
https://traditional host name of the vCenter or the ESX servers /sdk
After the discovery of VMware Infrastructure, the Control Host reports the discovered data to Management Server.
More Information
About discovering the VMware Infrastructure using Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager
Information that Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager discovers on the VMware Infrastructure components
About the datastores in Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager