Tag: inventory service

vSphere 5.5 Install Pt. 13: Install Inventory Svc

October 17, 2013

The vCenter inventory service has two primary purposes in life. First, it's a cache of objects which the web client accesses. This cache enables the offloading of retrieving objects from the vCenter core service (vpxd). This can also lessen the load on your back-end database if the vCenter service isn't...

vSphere 5.1 Install Screen

vCenter 5.1 U1 Installation: Part 4 (Inventory Service Install)

September 15, 2012

The vCenter inventory service install is straight forward and only takes a few minutes. The inventory service caches queries from the Web Broswer to increase the perceived responsiveness of vCenter, and in large environments lets you offload the process to another VM or closer to your administrators. This installation is quick and pain...