SCCM Inventory (Vmware/Vcores/Esxi)

Hello All,
We're looking into using SCCM as (one) of the main sources of information that will be used for a software asset management reporting tool. One of the key elements for getting an accurate license position is to not only determine what you have installed
but also what the hardware beneath the virtualization layer consist of.
I assume it's impossible to determine with SCCM (certainly in the non-hyper-v area) what the hardware of the underlying host is.
Would other tricks as connecting VMM to vcenter deliver extra 'inventory' information to SCCM or would the above requirement lead to a connector from the reporting tool to for example vcenter to read out host data and do the vm host <> blade linking....?

First, a (major) correction: Hyper-V is absolutely a (type 1) bare metal hypervisor.
Next, ConfigMgr is not a CMDB. As mentioned, ConfigMgr manages OSes. It does not manage hardware. The hardware information that ConfigMgr has is because the OS exposes that information. OSes within guest virtual machines do not know or have visibility into
their underlying hypervisor and thus ConfigMgr has no way of knowing anything.
As for VMM, there is no real connection between VMM and ConfigMgr. Just to say it one more time, ConfigMgr manages OS instances. VMM manages hypervisors and virtual hosts. The two are complimentary, but do not overlap in purpose or functionality.
Finally, the webcast I just presented last week in conjunction with Secunia showed how to use custom DDRs to pull information from any system, like vSphere and add that informatin to ConfigMgr for this exact scenario (I'm not sure if the recording has been
posted yet or not though).
Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com

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Our current VM infrastructure runs on VMware. I'm curious if anyone knows of a way to inventory the ESXi Hosts. I realize the SCCM Client wouldn't actually install on ESX to inventory directly, but the client does install on the windows server
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That said... since you suspect the information is in vCenter, where on that system is recorded "and here are my clients, these clients are these specific computers in Active Directory called ..." The last I heard about that (querying that) I wasn't
encouraged about 'the where' for that information--it was made to sound like it was virtually impossible to pull out. Of course; the main problem was I don't have any rights to the ESX Hosts here, to poke around and find the information.
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Hi,
I have received a below request from my client, and due to my lack of knowledge i am unable to answer this query.
Kindly guide me to right direction.
Can you please confirm which of the following inventory data we are capturing in SCCM? Note that all of these data are from the class “Custom Inventory Collection”. I’m not looking for OS_LANGUAGE from the canned inventory,
I’m looking for the “custom inventory collection” data.
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<item name="MANUFACTURER" Inventory Collection" type="wmi" namespace="ROOT\CIMV2" query="SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem">Manufacturer</item>
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<item name="SERIAL" Inventory Collection" type="wmi" namespace="ROOT\CIMV2" query="SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystemProduct">IdentifyingNumber</item>
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<item name="CONFIGOMATIC_IMAGE_VER" Inventory Collection" type="registry">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BesiInfo\Install\ImageVer</item>
<item name="SYMPHONY_IMAGE_VERSION" Inventory Collection" type="registry">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Symphony\Build\ImageVersion</item>
<item name="SYMPHONY_RELEASE_VERSION" Inventory Collection" type="registry">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Bell\Plateforme_Info\Release\Version</item>
<item name="CORE_IMAGE_VERSION" Inventory Collection" type="registry">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment\Image_Version</item>
<item name="CORE_VERSION" Inventory Collection" type="registry">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment\Core_Version</item>
<item name="REGISTERED_ORGANIZATION" Inventory Collection" type="registry">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\RegisteredOrganization</item>
<item name="CONFIG_OEM" Inventory Collection" type="registry">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\OEMDuplicatorString</item>
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<item name="SYMPHONY_CUSTCODE" Inventory Collection" type="registry">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Symphony\Build\CustCode</item>
<item name="BCCS_COMMUNITY" Inventory Collection" type="registry">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Bell\Common\Community</item>
<item name="CORE_PROFILE_VERSION" Inventory Collection" type="registry">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment\Profile_Version</item>
<item name="IMAGE_LANGUAGE" Inventory Collection" type="registry">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment\COMPUTER_LANG</item>
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Hi Jason,
The above XML snippet was sent by client, and i was not quite sure where he got that from.
However both SMS_Def.mof and Configuration.mof files made things clear and was able to answer the query.
Below post really helped me a lot.
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