Typically, you perform all cloud management from the Cloud Manager interface. However, if you do make a change by using the VMware vCenter tool, it is vSphereUpdater that brings many of those changes into your Cloud Manager system.
The Cloud Manager vSphere Provisioning Adapter detects changes that occur in the vSphere Server environment, and synchronizes many of them to the Cloud Manager Orchestration Server, which then communicates them to the Cloud Manager Application Server, and ultimately, to the Web Console.
The Cloud Manager Orchestration update infrastructure consists of two main components:
A vSphereUpdate Client component, which is executed by the Orchestration Agent.
The vSphereUpdate monitor job, which starts the vSphereUpdate Client component and ensures that it runs when necessary.
For information about configuring the vSphereUpdate components, see Configuring vSphereUpdate Client and Monitoring Jobs
in the Cloud Manager Installation and Upgrade Guide.
The following sections detail the changes that are synchronized:
When aspects of unique virtual machines are changed in the vSphere environment, Cloud Manager synchronizes these changes to its interface:
A vDisk is created, modified, or deleted on the VM.
A vNIC is created, modified, or deleted on theVM.
A VM host and its datastore is migrated.
A VM is moved to a new resource pool.
A VM is renamed.
The RAM or CPU is changed on a VM.
When aspects of vSphere repositories are changed, Cloud Manager synchronizes these changes to its interface:
A repository is created, renamed, or deleted.
A repository on a cluster is created, renamed, or deleted.
When aspects of vSphere networks are changed, Cloud Manager synchronizes these changes to its interface:
A network is created, modified, or deleted.
When aspects of vSphere Resource Pool are changed, Cloud Manager synchronizes these changes to its interface:
A VM is moved into or out of the resource pool.
The configuration of a resource pool is changed.