Inventory of municipal virtual machines, clusters, hosts, and templates is kept in one vSphere management server. Which vSphere component is that?
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Short Explanation
vCenter is the civic card catalog for hosts, clusters, VMs, and templates. The host client sees only one ESXi box. An Edge node and Horizon Connection Server inventory different products.
Full Explanation
Inventory of municipal virtual machines, clusters, hosts, and templates kept in one vSphere management server is the role of vCenter Server. vCenter is the civic card catalog for the hypervisor estate—the system of record operators open when they need cluster-wide visibility across agencies. The ESXi host client on a single host only shows that one box and cannot serve as the cluster-wide inventory system of record for the city. An NSX Edge node inventories and fronts network services, not the full VM and host catalog used for day-to-day compute operations. Horizon Connection Server inventories desktop pools and sessions for EUC; it is not the general vSphere inventory for all municipal VMs and clusters. Exam caveat: NSX Manager has its own inventory of fabric and security objects and may learn compute objects via a registered compute manager, but day-to-day VM, host, cluster, and template inventory for vSphere remains vCenter. Operational check: browse VMs, templates, and clusters in the vSphere Client connected to vCenter; confirm a host client cannot replace that multi-host inventory; do not look in Edge or Horizon consoles for the city’s full VM catalog; and document vCenter as the compute inventory source in the operations guide.