Contract Reporting Data Collection Instruction

Products

• VMware

Issue/Introduction

The purpose of this article is to provide customers with step-by-step instructions on how to collect deployment data for the VMware products they have deployed.

Customers with a contractual requirement to self-report licenses deployed are referenced in the terms of their Enterprise License Agreement.

Resolution

• Download and complete the Customer Environment Questionnaire.
• Download vCollector and vScout, along with the associated manual instructions and run them against your entire environment to generate the applicable outputs.
• Download the Data Collection Procedures and follow the appropriate instruction sets to generate the applicable deployment datafiles for those products deployed in your environment. These are for products not captured by vCollector and vScout.

Return all outputs (vCollector, vScout, questionnaire, other applicable deployment datafiles) to
[e-mail].

Additional Information

Attachments:

1. VMW Environment Questionnaire.xlsx
2. vCollector and vScout Manual.docx
3. vCollector 1.14.txt
4. vScout 1.5.txt
5. Data Collection Procedures 12.19.xlsx

 

Optional Downloads for Reference:

1. Data Collection Video Instructions.zip (Walk-thru on running vCollector/vScout)
2. VMware Data (Sample).zip (Sample vCollector and vScout Outputs)