Programmatic Snapshot and Revert of Virtualized Data Center Inventory

A snapshot of an inventory of a virtualized computer system is produced and a user-editable code is generated therefrom, so that the inventory can be reconstructed entirely or partially. The snapshot includes identifying data for items in the virtualized computer system, and relationship data that indicate hierarchical and non-hierarchical relationships between the items. The items in the inventory of the virtualized computer system include virtual machines, servers on which the virtual machines are running, one or more data centers in which the servers reside, and logical containers such as folders for virtual machines, resource pools that each contain one or more virtual machines, and server clusters that each contain one or more servers.