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jshely
VMware Employee
VMware Employee
‎07-29-2008 07:09 AM

Q. VM is not showing in inventory after deployment.

I've deployed 4 VM's in Virtual Center. 3 are showing up. One I thought I missed and redeployed and it says it already exists. I cannot find it anywhere in the Inventory. At this point I am unsure where to look? Any ideas are greatly appreciated!

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TomHowarth
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‎08-02-2008 09:02 AM

Thread moved to a more approipiate forum

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kjb007
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‎08-02-2008 11:47 AM

I'd restart the virtual center service, and it may be there already. Otherwise, restart hostd on the esx servers by going to the esx host console, and using 'service mgmt-vmware restart'

To be sure, you can also right-click on the datastore, and select browse datastore. See if the folder for that vm already exists. If it does, you can browse to it, right-click on the vmx file, and select 'add to inventory'

-KjB

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