What is the Discovered Virtual Machine folder in vCenter web console?

[danh2010]

What is the Discovered Virtual Machine folder in vCenter web console?

I have about 20 vms listed in here and the rest listed under Virtual Machines.

Thanks,

Dan

[richardsonporto]

This folder is created by default when new hosts are added into vCenter and used to hold VMs that have been found to be pre-existing on the VMware ESXi host.

[abhilashhb · Accepted solution]

Folders are a method of setting permissions in VMware vCenter. They form a sorting entity and behave like a logical separation. When you first add the hosts to vCenter and you do not have any folders, there will be a default folder created for you as Richardsonporto mentioned.

You can later create new folders and segregate the VM's by dragging and dropping them.

[danh2010]

I find it strange that they are not all in that folder then.  I just upgraded from 5.1 to 5.5, logged in and it was like this.

Thank you both for your help.

[Fluxblocker]

I have one VM in this folder and all the other VMs - I only have about 9 total - only one is in the "discovered VMs" folder.  I can't move it out into the same level as the rest of the VMs.  It is a 3-node VSA deployment with version 5.5.1.  Anyone who can hit me up with a helpful suggestion as to why this one VM is in this folder but none of the other ones are will be appreciated very sincerely.  Thanks and have a great day!

Sam2.0