XIA Configuration

VMware vCenter & ESXi Documentation Tool

Automated documentation software to help you keep track of your VMware systems

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Save time by using our VMware vCenter & ESXi documentation tool XIA Configuration to automatically document your settings. Record the configuration of your VMware environments, track changes, and cut support and maintenance costs.

Streamline Auditing. Execute reports to audit your configuration
Automate Documentation. Generate always up-to-date documentation with version control
Scan Inventory. Inventory your VMware environments
Track Changes. Compare items and detect changes to expose unauthorised changes, and security vulnerabilities.

XIA Configuration has a non-intrusive architecture with agentless data collection and PowerShell support.

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Check compliance, harden security and audit all changes with the change tracking and reporting features.

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VMware system settings documented by XIA Configuration

Find out more about the VMware system configuration documented by XIA Configuration below:

VMware System Information
Clusters
Datastores
Datastore Clusters
Distributed Switches
Hosts
Resource Pools
Virtual Machines

Screenshot of the VMware navigation tree and system information in the XIA Configuration web interface

VMware System Information

XIA Configuration provides system details and a summary of the hosts and guests within your VMware environment.

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Name
System Settings
Licences
Roles
Product Name and Version
Instance Identifier
API Type
Build
Host Operating System Breakdown
Guest Operating System Breakdown

VMware vCenter Server provides a centralized platform for managing VMware vSphere environments.

Screenshot of VMware general system information in a document generated by XIA Configuration

VMware Clusters

This section contains VMware cluster information.

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General Settings

Name
Swap File Location
Managed Object ID
VMware EVC Mode

Permissions

Principal Name
Role Name
Defined Location (e.g. datacenters)
Propagate

VMware HA Settings

VMware HA Settings Enabled
Admission Control Enabled
Host Monitoring
Failover Level
Response for Host Isolation
Virtual Machine Monitoring
VM Restart Priority

VMware DRS Settings

VMware DRS Settings Enabled
Default Behaviour
Migration Threshold
Default DPM Behaviour
DPM Threshold
Enable Individual Virtual Machine Automation Levels

A cluster is a group of two or more ESX hosts that provide high availability (using VMware HA) and load balancing (using DRS).

Screenshot of VMware cluster details in the XIA Configuration web interface

VMware Datastores

This section contains datastores information.

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General Settings

Name, Type and URL
Accessible
Capacity, Free Space and Percentage Free
Maximum File Size and Virtual Disk Size

Permissions

Principal Name
Role Name
Defined Location (e.g. datacenters)
Propagate

VMFS Settings

Block Size
Extents
Filesystem Version
Solid State Drive
UUID
VMFS Upgradable

Capability

Directory Hierarchy Supported
Native Snapshot Supported
Thin Provisioning Supported
Raw Disk Mappings Supported
Flex-SE(SeSparse) Supported
Storage IORM Supported

Storage I/O Control

Storage I/O Control Enabled
Enable Storage I/O statistics collection
Exclude I/O statistics from SDRS

Host Connections

Host
Access Mode
Path

A datastore is a manageable storage entity used to store virtual machine configuration and disk files or images.

Screenshot of datastore settings in the XIA Configuration web interface

VMware Datastore Clusters

This section contains datastore clusters information.

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General Settings

Name
Datastore Names
Capacity
Free Space

Permissions

Principal Name
Role Name
Defined Location (e.g. datacenters)
Propagate

vSphere Storage DRS

vSphere Storage DRS Enabled
Behaviour
Enable I/O metric for SDRS recommendations

A datastore cluster is a collection of datastores with shared resources and a shared management interface.

Screenshot of datastore cluster configuration in a document generated by XIA Configuration

VMware Distributed Switches

Use the hyperlinks below to explore the detail of the distributed switch information documented by XIA Configuration:

Screenshot of VMware vSphere distributed switch settings in the XIA Configuration web interface

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VMware Hosts

Use the hyperlinks below to explore the detail of the VMware host information documented by XIA Configuration:

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VMware Resource Pools

This section contains resource pool information.

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General Settings

Name
Managed Object ID
Permissions
Virtual Machines within the pool

CPU and Memory Resource Allocation

Limit
Reservation
Shares and Shares Level
Expandable Reservation

A resource pool is used to partition available CPU and memory resources.

Screenshot of resource pool configuration in a document generated by XIA Configuration

VMware Virtual Machines

Use the hyperlinks below to explore the detail of the virtual machine information documented by XIA Configuration:

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Note: For detailed information about virtual machine configuration, please see the Windows page and the Unix page.

Inventory

Automatically detect and scan vCenter installations on Windows machines which, in turn, are automatically detected when scanning Active Directory.

Virtual machines connected to the domain will also be detected, scanned and added to the inventory.

Screenshot of Active Directory search and detection settings in the XIA Configuration Client

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Relationship Map

Generate a map showing the relationships between customers, VMware systems, ESX hosts, VMware virtual machines and other items:

Reporting

In addition to generating full VMware documentation, you can run specific reports against multiple systems within an environment to check compliance and help IT and business users get the information they need.

The reports are web-accessible and include filtering, sorting and exporting to CSV and PDF.

Screenshot showing VMware reports in the XIA Configuration web interface

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Track Changes and Compare VMware Systems

Compare VMware systems to see differences or compare two versions of the same VMware system to see changes. For example, compare two different ESX servers.