Enter the username and password which are used to access VMware/vSphere client and save the credential.
Enable / disable Auto VM discovery option - If enabled, Auto VM discovery automatically updates any changes in the vCenter environment ( such as addition of new VMs to a vCenter ) to OpManager.
Now go to Discovery → add VMware
Chose Discover vCenter (for vCenter based discovery)/Discover ESX (for ESX host based discovery) and enter the IP address/DNS name.
Select the VMware credentials.
Along with VMware you can chose SNMP / WMI (Windows) / CLI of the server where vCenter or host is hosted for in-depth monitoring of the metrics based on the selected protocol. Click Next.
This will fetch all the virtual machine details list from the vCenter /ESX. By default, all the hosts will be added to OpManager.
Select the VMs to be monitored, choose the SNMP, WMI (Windows) or CLI (Linux) credentials for VM's to monitor extra metrics of selected protocol (if needed).
Also, you can choose to sync your entity name as the display name in OpManager by enabling the "Sync entity name to display name" option.
Once you're done choosing the necessary options, click 'Discover'.
