VMware Discovery Limitations

Search for	Example	Results
A single word	`cat`	Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats".
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase.	`"cat food"` (quotation marks)	Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

DFM can discover the total number of licenses and available licenses for each feature, but only when the user has Global.Licenses permission. If the user does not have such permissions, these attributes of the License Feature CI are not populated.

Different versions of ESX Servers (versions 3.0 and 3.5) report the feature_is_edition flag differently for the esxFull feature: for the older version it is reported as false and for the newer version it is reported as true. Because of this discrepancy, DFM does not report this attribute.

Different versions of ESX Servers (versions 3.0 and 3.5) report the total or available license counts differently for ESX-specific features (nas, iscsi, vsmp, san) that are included in the esxFull edition license. For these features, DFM does not report these attributes.

There is a difference between the VMware protocol versions: certain attributes appear only in newer versions and do not appear in previous versions. As a result, when using an old protocol certain attributes are not discovered, especially for clusters and licenses.

DFM does not discover or report licensing information for vCenter\ESX server version 4.0 or above.

DFM does not report information about the order of teamed interfaces. You can group server physical interfaces of an ESX server into NIC Teaming groups, while specifying the order of such interfaces in a group (first, second, and so on). Information about what interface are teamed is reported but the order of these interfaces is not.