[vrops] vCenter and ESXi release names in reporting

[Gabrie1]

Hi

When a new security bulletin is released, I'm always happy to quickly produce a list of all our vCenters and ESXi hosts with their build numbers usings vROPs, but since the security bulletin usually reports version numbers in which things have been fixed, I still have to search the build numbers list to match this with the version in which things are fixed. Is there no way we could get a list of 'release name' in vROPs?

[KabirAli82]

I think you are looking for:

<Select an ESXi host> -> Properties -> Summary -> Version

[Gabrie1]

Nope.....

<Select an ESXi host> -> Properties -> Summary -> Version gives the BUILD version. Not the ESXi version like 7u2 or 7u3.

[RickVerstegen]

Select an ESXI host and navigate to properties --> configuration --> Product --> API Version.

Checked on vROPs 8.12.1.

[Gabrie1]

RickVerstegen 

Ah thank you, didn't know this one. But.... close but not there yet 🙂

I get value = 7.0.3.0 for a ESXi host that is running ESXi 7.0 Update 3k. So it is much better than just the build number, but not enough to quickly get me a list of hosts that I need to patch because of a security update. Usually in a security bulletin I see that 7.0.3 update 3c has to be fixed. So the 7.0.3.0 is very close, but one level too high.

[RickVerstegen · Accepted solution]

I am affraid there is no built-in property available in vROps to satisfy your needs.

Maybe you can achieve your goal by creating a custom property. Get the data via powershell/powercli and push it as a property to vROPs using REST API? I have no experience with this, but something you can investigate.

[Gabrie1]

Was afraid so. 

Thank you for replying.