General question for the community. How have people configured VMs in IDP in respect of rack views? Specifically if you have several physical hosts (that can be correctly placed in rack views), but the VMs can be located on one of several physical hosts, across different racks or aisles?
Exactly—IDP Rack Manager is focused on physical equipment, so VMs shouldn't be placed directly in physical rack slots.
That said, you could probably link VMs to their physical hosts using a naming convention, element properties, or views. This linkage might allow you to visualize VMs on the element Visio of the physical host. The front panel shown in the IDP rack view is actually sourced from the protocol Visio of the physical host element—specifically, a Visio sheet with defined dimensions and a specific name.
As a result, when you open the front panel in the rack view, the VMs could be logically represented there, even though they aren't physically located in the rack.