vCenter cant find some VM's in the inventory search

[farkasharry]

When I am searching vCenter (vCenter 4.1 Standard with ESXi 4.1 U1) for some (around 1% of the existing VM's) VM in the Inventory search, vCenter doesnt find it. I can find the VM by clicking through the folders or running a get-vm command, but not in the inventory serach. Did anybody had anything similar?

[vDeepak]

how are you searching it? i mean at top right box there you are typing your Vm name or select the  VC or any hosts then at right at search field ?

Thanks

[khaneric]

I am having this issue as well... a very small percentage just doesn't show up.

[farkasharry]

I just realized, that in an advanced search where the VM shows up, the data for the Inventory path is missing. (Like vCenter\Datacenter\Folder)

Where can I have a look at this Inventory or where can I edit it?
As I said, the VM is up and running and I can find it by clicking through the folders, and can find it over the search option in the vCenter client in the right upper corner, but when clicking on it it says: Is has been probably removed from the vCenters inventory

[f10]

Ok, so it looks like the vCenter GUI is not performing as expected. Did you try increasing the Maximum memory pool for Tomcat? refer to http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026092 for more info.

[farkasharry]

I have found the solution:

The error message
"This entity does not exist in vCenter. It may have been deleted from vCenter after the last search was completed. Run search again to refresh the results set."
can be resolved by moving the VM to the root folder and then back. It is correcting the missing Inventory path of the VM.

[farkasharry]

Move VM to the root folder (Datacenter folder directly) and then move it back to the proper one. this resolves the issue with the missing Inventory Path!