For a physical inventory, the vmphyinv utility performs the following sequence of operations:

• Obtains a list of drives to mount the media

  See About the vmphyinv list of drives.

• Obtains a list of media to mount

  See About the media that vmphyinv mounts.

• Mounts the media and reads the tape headers

  See How vmphyinv mounts the media and reads the tape header.

• Updates the EMM database

  See How vmphyinv updates the EMM database.