Select Columns on VMware Dashboard

Hello,

I don't believe the API would allow us to customize it by hand in the properties of the entries. We would need to map them by hand ourselves in our code.

Could you provide us which additional fields you would like to see in the Dashboard? Is it only the DNS name for now?

Best Regards,

In addition hostname it would be nice to see cluster name, host, networks, storage, and we have a custom attribute to track our backups. So enumerating all the custom attributes would be great.

Hello,

We will open a ticket for this improvement and keep you updated on any progress.

Best Regards,

Hello,

I wanted to let you know we're doing a preliminary investigation into this.

Already, what I can tell you is that these columns will not all be possible to add in the default/experimental mode. This mode uses the REST API and it's very lackluster—from what I can tell, VMWare hasn't been actively developing and adding features to it since their acquisition by Broadcom. For some of the information, we will need to make additional calls for each individual VMs, which may come at a performance cost, which we will have to analyse to see if it's too impactful or not.

On the other hand, the "legacy" mode which uses the SOAP API is more feature-full and from some initial testing, it may have most of what you're asking for.

We will be pushing the investigation further to see what is and isn't possible to add on that end. It's turning out to not be such a simple change, so I wanted to let you know where things stood at the moment.

Regards,

Hello,

Another update, there will be a "Show advanced columns" checkbox in the VMWare dashboard added for our next major release, 2026.1. This will contain a lot of new columns, though the custom attributes will not be included yet.
The reason it'll be implemented this way for now is that we are reworking a lot of our application to use a different UI framework. There still needs to be groundwork made to allow custom columns and features like that. Once these features are available, we will be able to rework the VMWare dashboard to support adding and removing the columns you need rather than having an "all or nothing" approach with the checkbox. Despite this current limitation, I hope the added columns will be useful to you.

And one last thing, as I mentioned in my previous message, the REST API cannot support these new columns without a massive impact on performance, so these new columns will only be in the "legacy" mode, which uses the SOAP API.

Regards,