Determining the install location of vCenter Server solutions and extensions

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

The purpose of this article is to be able to determine on which machine vCenter Server solutions and extensions are installed.

 

For example: vCenter Inventory Service, vCops, Site Recovery Manager, Update Manager.

Environment

• VMware vCenter Server 4.0.x
• VMware vCenter Server 5.0.x
• VMware vCenter Server 4.1.x
• VMware vCenter Server 5.1.x
• VMware vCenter Server 5.5.x
• VMware vCenter Server 6.0.x

Resolution

1. In a web browser, navigate to http://vCenter_Server_name_or_IP/mob.
   
   Note: vCenter_Server_name_or_IP/mob is the name of your vCenter Server or its IP address.
   
   
2. Click Content.
3. Click Extension Manager.
4. Select the name of the extension or solution for which you want to find the install location from the list of values under Properties. For a list of default extensions and solutions, see the Additional Information section of this article.
5. Click HealthInfo
6. The value for the url is the machine on which the extension or solution is installed.
7. Close the window.

Additional Information

Default vSphere extensions

Extension Name	Service Description
com.vmware.vim.eam	vSphere ESX Agent Manager
com.vmware.vim.inventoryservice	vCenter Server Inventory Service
com.vmware.vim.ls	Licensing Services
com.vmware.vim.sms	VMware vCenter Storage Monitoring Service
com.vmware.vim.sps	VMware vSphere Profile-drive Storage Service
com.vmware.vim.stats.report	Performance charts built-in extension
com.vmware.vim.stats.vsm	Service Manager
cim-ui	vCenter Hardware Status
health-ui	vCenter Service Status
hostdiag	Internal extension to declare diagnostic events from VMware Host systems
VirtualCenter	vCenter Server dynamic events and tasks
com.vmware.orchestrator	VMware vRealize Orchestrator plugin (formerly known as VMware vCenter Orchestrator plug-in)
com.vmware.rbd	Auto Deploy
com.vmware.syslog	VMware Syslog Collector Configuration
com.vmware.vcDr	VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager Extension
com.vmware.vcHms	vSphere Replication Management (VRM)
com.vmware.vcIntegrity	VMware vSphere Update Manager Extension
com.vmware.vShieldManager	vShield Manager
vCloud Director-1	vCloud Director
com.vmware.vcops	vRealize Operations Manager (formerly known as vCenter Operations Manager)
com.vmware.vadm	VMware vRealize Infrastructure Navigator (formerly known as vCenterInfrastructure Navigator)
com.vmware.vdp	vSphere Data Protection 5.1
com.vmware.vdp2 com.vmware.vdp2.config	vSphere Data Protection 5.5/5.8
com.vmware.vsan.health	vSAN Health Check Plug-in
com.vmware.heartbeattasks	vCenter Server Heartbeat
com.vmware.hbwc	vCenter Server Heartbeat
com.vmware.heartbeat	vCenter Server Heartbeat
com.neverfail.heartbeat	vCenter Server Heartbeat