The important thing is to ensure that Vmware tools are up to date and running on your VMs. Assuming that is the case, you can see the guest OS information for any VM in vmExplorer dashboard under Summary and Resource Information pane:
If you are looking for the Report then there is an OOTB report Virtual Machines Configurations that will provide the information as well.
thanks for reply jon, but I created a definition for a report to get all c drive info on vm's. I'm looking for the vm's OS in there. where in here I can find the OS version, that works, I don't know.
Your screenshot shows a report based on LogicalDisk objects, which are in the Host model.
From there, you can get to monitoredHost/os/name and monitoredHost/os/type and monitoredHost/os/version, but you can't get to the VM to get the "osDisplayName" as suggested by John without a query (which is not available in a drag and drop dashboard/report).
But if you base your report on VMWVirtualMachineLogicalDisk, then you can path to virtualMachine/vOSDisplayName as well as hostLogicalDisk for the LogicalDisk metrics.
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hi thanks for reply but I'm trying to get the vm's OS version so appear in a report I am generating.
I edit the table to get host/os/version and it says N/A on the column
and get N/A. should be a lot easier than this IMO.
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