How to get alarms list on a datacenter with sdk ?
Hello, i'm trying to get the alarms triggered on each datacenter objects.On the VSphere client I can see 5 alarms (4 warnings, 1 Alert) triggered, andI didn't succeded in retrieving this alarms...
View ArticleScript need to deploy a VM from a template
Hi All, greetings ! I am pretty new to vmware, It would be great if any of you could provide me with a Script to Deploy VM from an existing VM template ? The VM templates resides on a ESXserver part...
View ArticleOptions supported by CustomizationLinuxOptions
Hi, I am trying to understand what options are supported by the CustomizationLinuxOptions object, And you to use it (Maybe someone have an example)? Thanks you, Dori
View ArticleGuest customization with cloneVM task: IP & default GW
Hi All, I am using the cloneVM_task to clone a VM machine with customiztion object. The VM is linux (rhel5) installed with vmware-tools and i am using vSphere 5.0. I have 2 question about network...
View ArticleDownload a file from datastore
Hi, is there a way to use the datastorebrowser to download/put a file from a datastore?As there is a way in the vCenter to do this there should also be one doing it with the viperltoolkit. Any ideas?...
View ArticleExample of using the "CustomizationCustomIpGenerator"
Hi all, I'm trying to use the "CustomizationCustomIpGenerator" (- Use a command-line program configured with the VirtualCenter server), to customize nic IP setting on linux Rhel5 VM. The argument i'm...
View ArticleopenSSL certificate verification
I have seen others talk about this issue but they never stated what resolved their problem. Problem: When you do a connect.pl from the Perl utilities and get Error: Server version unavailable at...
View Articleunable to clone vm get error-A specified parameter was not correct....
I am using vmclone2.pl (ref -http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-12270) to customize guest OS to set a specific IP address (and other network settings. ) I am using VSphere SDK for Vsphere 4.1 ESXi...
View ArticleWhat is --datacenter referring to?
Hello i am trying to validate my insatllation of vSphere 4.1 SDK Perl. The command syntax to validate is the following: perl discovery/datacenterlisting.pl --server --datacenter --username --password I...
View ArticleVMware Auto Deploy and vSphere SDK for Perl
Hello, I know VMware PowerCLI has few cmdlets which helps us to add ESX Software depot, create rules and apply rules. is there any way to achive the same in vSphere SDK for Perl? Thanks
View ArticleCreating virtual disks on specific SCSI Controllers (vdiskcreate.pl)
I have virtual machines that just have the default SCSI Controller 0 installed with one disk attached. What I want to do is create additional SCSI controllers up to the limit (SCSI Controllers 1, 2 and...
View ArticleVMware Scripting API - Installation fails on Debian Squeeze
Hi! I get an error while installing (compiling) the VMware Scripting API package. It is reproduceable on at least 2 different Debian Squeeze systems. Here you can see the last make lines:...
View Article"esxupdate -l query" equivalent for Perl SDK
Hey Guys, Is there a way to get a list of patches installed on a given list of hosts within a vCenter environment in a similar manner to the output of "esxupdate -l query" ? I've found several...
View Articleapplying a host profile to an ESX host
Having trouble doing this, likely because I don't understand quite what I'm doing. From the UI, you can associate a profile with a cluster. Then, you can right-click on a host within the cluster and...
View ArticleVM on HOST?
Hello Guys,since a few days I'm palying around with the vSphere™ SDK for Perl API V5.0.hostinfo.pl and vminfo.pl works fine as well as my own developed scripts.But I cannot find the relation between a...
View Articleesxcli doesn't work with credstore
Anyone encountered and found a solution to this? Welcome to vSphere Management Assistantvi-admin@vmat:~> /usr/lib/vmware-vcli/apps/general/credstore_admin.pl add --server VLT02000 --username...
View ArticleAbout:CloneVM
Dear All, I am trying to clone the vm ,but it not work, following is the source code, any Idea ?sub cloneVM{ my $this = shift; my $vmList = $this->{vm}; $len = scalar @$vmList;for...
View ArticleSet VM OS Type Using SDK Perl v5?
I am trying to set the operating system type of a virtual machine shell using the Perl version 5 SDK and am receiving an error. Snippet of code: $guestid = "sles11_64Guest" my $guestid =...
View Articlevicfg-hostops question
Hi All, I just got through the installation of vCLI and perl SDK. I installed all this in my vCenter SUSE VM it self. The vCenter is bootstrapped into the cluster. I am trying to reboot a host in...
View ArticleProblem using vSphere™ SDK for Perl instead of VI Perl Toolkit 1.6
We are currently running VI Perl Toolkit 1.6 on SLES 10 SP1 64bit. When I run a test query using 1.6 I get the expected result. When I uninstall 1.6 and install vSphere SDK for Perl and run the same...
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