How to figure out the vCenter name of a vCloud Director VM?

Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:43:15 +0000

There is a regular ask in various community channels on how to be able to map the vCloud Director virtual machine name to the exact VM in vCenter Server.

This blog post will look at an easy mechanism to do so since the Flash client is now either deprecated or completely gone depending on which vCloud Director verison you are actually running.

To quickly describe the problem let's look at 2 screenshots. The first one is the view in vCloud Director.

VCloud Director on vUnhandledException

How to figure out the vCenter name of a vCloud Director VM?