TheGlobal Inventory List (GIL)is only available whenmulti-vCenter SSO domain linkingis configured. In VMware Cloud Foundation, themanagement domain vCenteris deployed first and becomes theroot vCenterfor global inventory data. For workload domains, their vCenter Servers must beregistered into the same SSO domainandlinkedwith the management-domain vCenter in order for the global inventory data (VMs, hosts, clusters, content libraries) to appear.
If a workload domain vCenter is not SSO-linked, it operates in its own identity domain, and thereforecannot access or present Global Inventory, resulting in exactly the symptom described: the management domain vCenter shows the GIL, while the workload domain vCenter does not.
Option B (Supervisor Management) relates to vSphere with Tanzu and has no impact on Global Inventory.
Option C (inventory sync) is incorrect—there is no manual sync required; GIL relies entirely on SSO linking.
Option D (VIDB) is not related to vCenter linking or inventory visibility; it is used by VCF Identity Broker.
Therefore, the reason the Global Inventory is missing from the workload domain vCenter is thatSSO/vCenter Linking has not been configured, which is required for federation across all VCF vCenters.
