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title: How to export the VMware inventory?
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# How to export the VMware inventory?
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As of 17 July 2025, new automated installations of Red Hat® OpenShift® for VMware® are no longer available for new or existing deployments of VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instances. You can still use or delete your existing Red Hat OpenShift for VMware automated installations until 16 July 2026. The service will no longer be available from 17 July 2026.
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You can export a VMware vCenter Server® resource inventory into CSV files. The information in the exported CSV files is used to size a target VMware vCenter Server environment. It can also provide insights to the virtual machines in the source environment to help with migration planning.

## How to export the contents of an inventory list into a CSV file?
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You can export the contents of an inventory list into a CSV file through following steps:

1. From the VMware vSphere® Web Client, open a list view for an object type, for example, **Virtual Machines** or **Hosts**.
   You can access list views of objects from the Global Inventory Lists and the search results.
2. Click the **Export** icon in the lower right of a **Global Inventory** or **Resources list** view. To open the navigator view, press `CTRL+ALT+7`.
3. Select each row to be listed in the CSV file for each of the following sections:
    - Global Inventory Lists > Virtual Machines
    - Resources > vCenter Servers
    - Resources > Datacenters
    - Resources > Hosts
    - Resources > Clusters
    - Resources > Resource Pools
    - Resources > Datastores
    - Resources > Datastore Clusters
    - Resources > Networks
    - Resources > Distributed Port Groups
    - Resources > Distributed Switches
4. For each of the previous items, click **Export** and save to a file name that is labeled with the contents, such as:
    - Global Inventory Lists > Virtual Machines
    - Resources > vCenter Servers > `exportlist-vcenters.csv`
    - Resources > Datacenters > `exportlist-datacenters.csv`
    - Resources > Hosts > `exportlist-hosts.csv`
    - Resources > Clusters > `exportlist-clusters.csv`
    - Resources > Resource Pools > `exportlist-respools.csv`
    - Resources > Datastores > `exportlist-datastores.csv`
    - Resources > Datastore Clusters > `exportlist-dsclusters.csv`
    - Resources > Networks > `exportlist-networks.csv`
    - Resources > Distributed Port Groups > `exportlist-dpgs.csv`
    - Resources > Distributed Switches > `exportlist-dswitches.csv`
5. Package all `.csv` files into a single compressed file. For example, `vCenterName-Inventory.zip`.
6. Use the contents of the file to size the target environment.