NetBox Integration with VMware vCenter Now Available in Customer Preview
We’re excited to announce that the NetBox integration with VMware vCenter has successfully completed its private preview phase and is now entering Customer Preview! We want to extend our sincere thanks to all the participants who helped us refine this integration during the private preview—your feedback has been invaluable.
As NetBox continues to establish itself as the definitive Network Source of Truth, the demand for seamless integrations with essential infrastructure management platforms keeps growing. Our integration with VMware vCenter represents a significant step forward in eliminating manual data synchronization and reducing operational overhead for enterprise teams managing virtualized infrastructure.
What is Customer Preview?
Customer Preview opens this integration to existing NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise customers who are ready to evaluate and deploy it in their staging or test environments. The vCenter integration requires NetBox Assurance, which we can enable on a trial basis for customers seeking to evaluate the integration. This phase allows us to gather real-world feedback from diverse infrastructure architectures and use cases while continuing to refine and enhance the integration based on your needs.
Why This Integration Matters
VMware vCenter is the centralized management platform for VMware vSphere environments, providing comprehensive control over virtualized infrastructure. For organizations managing complex virtual environments, maintaining synchronization between NetBox and vCenter has traditionally required time-consuming manual processes.
Many teams use NetBox as their source of truth for infrastructure inventory and documentation, while VMware vCenter handles real-time virtual machine provisioning, resource management, and monitoring. Without an automated connection, teams face data inconsistencies, increased error rates, and operational delays. Our integration eliminates these pain points by automatically discovering and synchronizing your virtual infrastructure from vCenter into NetBox.
What Gets Synchronized
The integration provides comprehensive data synchronization across your virtual infrastructure:
- Datacenters: VMware datacenter objects and hierarchy
- Clusters: Compute cluster information
- Hosts: ESXi host inventory
- Virtual Machines: Complete VM inventory
- Virtual Interfaces: VM network interface configurations
- IP Addresses: Network addressing information for VMs
- Virtual Disks: Storage allocation and configuration
- Host Interfaces: Physical NICs (pNICs) and virtual NICs (vNICs)
This real-time synchronization ensures your NetBox instance remains current with your actual virtual infrastructure, eliminating manual data entry and reducing documentation drift.
Key Features
The vCenter integration is built on the NetBox Labs controller integrations framework and includes:
- Automated Discovery: Continuously discovers and synchronizes virtual infrastructure from vCenter without manual intervention
- Real-time Data Synchronization: Keeps your NetBox data current with vCenter inventory changes
- NetBox Assurance Integration: Leverages NetBox Assurance for safe data ingestion and deviation management, ensuring data quality and integrity
- Secure Authentication: OAuth2 client credentials for secure communication with NetBox, plus Vault integrations for managing vCenter secrets
- Agent-Based Architecture: Runs as part of the NetBox Discovery agent ecosystem using the Orb Agent Pro image, enabling deployment in multiple network locations
- Comprehensive Object Mapping: Detailed mapping of datacenters, clusters, hosts, virtual machines, interfaces, IP addresses, and storage
Join the Customer Preview
If you are a NetBox Labs customer and use VMware vCenter, we invite you to participate in the Customer Preview.
To join, please contact NetBox Labs support at support@netboxlabs.com with your organization’s name, vCenter Server version, and any specific requirements.
For technical documentation and detailed object mapping information, visit our VMware vCenter integration documentation.
Not a current NetBox Labs customer? Please use our contact form to learn more about NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise.
