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While poking around in the service console, I’ve discovered another hidden pearl. It’s called vmware-vimdump. You’ll find it at /usr/lib/vmware/bin and you can execute it by typing ./vmware-vimdump. Before executing this command, configure your  SSH client e.g. Putty to log printable output to a file.
After a second or 10 you’ll see the following output, followed by every property you can think of:

=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= PuTTY log 2010.01.07 21:41:38 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=

./vmware-vimdump
Connecting to : localhost at 443 as root over SOAP
Found 67 managed objects:
1. vim.AuthorizationManager::ha-authmgr
2. vim.ComputeResource::ha-compute-res
3. vim.Datacenter::ha-datacenter
4. vim.Datastore::192.168.178.80:/nfs/public
5. vim.Datastore::496b4b2d-eb377ae5-3a0e-00151798bd3c
6. vim.Datastore::49f35375-879d840a-4a6c-00151798bd3d
7. vim.Datastore::4a1aa279-c94107ae-790a-00151798bd3c
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