same here mates (and we have date 2014-02-21),
so, what's not working good and after what:
- differences between vm and folders inventory between web client and vcenter client
- in generally after some time no new registration of vms shows in web client, not matter where they ware created/registered
- deleted vm's are still in web client inventory
- any restart of any vcenter services, even a host not help
- it was clean installation of vcenter 5.5
- after problem occurs it was updated to newest version of vcenter 5.5.1476327 - not helped
- I'm not so sure but problem may start to occur (im sure on 40%) after installing VDP Advanced, and then after reinstall it because it not working ok (everything lower than cluster showed "not licensed"), then I observe that new VDP not register to vcenter (web client), additionally my host was disconnect from vcenter and i have to reconnect it, it was probably before I observe the problem (with not registered next VDP)
- then i start searching a web, found your posts, nice work
- now problem solved, and here are what I done:
1. posts a solution that probably works bests:
service vmware-inventoryservice stop
# Remove stored data:
rm -rf /storage/db/inventoryservice/data
/usr/lib/vmware-vpx/inventoryservice/scripts/ds-invoke.sh -Dvim.logdir=/var/log/vmware/vpx/inventoryservice com.vmware.vim.dataservices.CreateDb /storage/db/inventoryservice/data changeme default changeme
service vmware-inventoryservice start
vcenterhost=vchost.mydomain.com
/usr/lib/vmware-vpx/inventoryservice-registration/vcregtool.sh -Dvim.logdir=/var/log/vmware/vpx/inventoryservice-registration com.vmware.vim.dataservices.vcregtool.RegisterVC -action register -lookupserviceurl https://$vcenterhost:7444/lookupservice/sdk -isurl https://$vcenterhost:10443 -vcurl https://$vcenterhost/sdk/vimService -vccert /etc/vmware-vpx/ssl/rui.crt -vcprivkey /etc/vmware-vpx/ssl/rui.key -vcinstancecfg /etc/vmware-vpx/instance.cfg -vcendpointsdir /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/endpoints -vcextensionsdir /usr/lib/vmware-vpx/extensions
service vmware-vpxd restart
2. but, after that from my 258 vms before (and 274 vms in truly) left only 58 vms... not so pretty... but I thought it may be connected to some other vcenter cache and logs and restart vcenter... not sure that ware help but additionally (and in my opinion that helps) I disconnect and connect again my host and then every 272 vms appear again and now it looks like working ok for now.
thanks mates for good topic and hope it helps a little to others.
regards
NTShad0w