Uploading an ISO to a vSphere datastore very slow
I need to upload ISO files of appliance builds to a directory on a datastore (currently from the local machine, but in the future I want to go from a network share, or even via a https GET from another...
View ArticleDelete a vm
Hi, I must be missing it.But where is a delete_vm task in the managed object VirtualMachine? Chris
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Cannot start VM after adding a VMDK
Hello everyone, I modified the VMDK management script to fit my needs, the purpose of which is now to upload a VMDK to a specified VM (its ID), and then "associate" it to the latter. Basically, all...
View ArticleHow can I find the 'You are here' in a snapshot tree using Perl SDK?
Hello All, I have been working with the perl SDK for VMware and I am at the stage of my project where I need to display snapshot tree.My project is a web based form that have has many functions to...
View ArticleNetwork label of a portgroup is kept in UNICODE internally.
Hi, everybody==============1 my $host = Vim::find_entity_view(view_type => 'HostSystem', filter => {name => $hostname}, properties => ['name', 'network']);2 print Dumper $host->network;3...
View ArticleHostVMotionSystem deprecated, use virtualNicManager
Hi,I am trying to change the Subnetmask of a Vmotion Network via Perl SDK.For this I wanted to use the method UpdateIpConfig from the HostVMotionSystem.But the documentantion mentions, that...
View ArticleList Cluster and the VMs running on that Cluster
Hi, I am looking for a way to find out all the VMs that belong to a cluster. In other words, I want a list that maps a clusters to all the VMs that run on it. In the API documentation, I find that...
View ArticleISO Management
Hi everyone, I am trying to mount an ISO at boot time on a specified VM, so the scripts contained in it can execute. The problem is that my ISO seems to be totally ignored when I create the VM. I use...
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How to retrieve the console ip address of my hosts
Hi, I try to create my first perl script for vmware. I want to retrieve the console ip address of all my hosts under my vCenter. I'm able to retrieve the name of the hosts (I found a script who do...
View ArticleSLES11 SP2: extract information from ESXi takes very long and aborts
Hello, I'm trying to extract status information, using a Nagios plugin called check_esx3, from an ESXi 4.0 using VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-5.1.0-780721 on a SLES11 SP2 system with perl-5.10.0 and/or...
View ArticleCan't install vSphere SDK for Perl on Linux
I'm trying to install the SDK on a Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop with Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop as the operating system. This computer is not connected to the internet, it is on an internal network. I'm...
View ArticleSOAP request error
HiI use vSphere SDK for Perl 4,1, All worked fine.But after update Net-HTTP perl module from 6.03 to 6.05 for all API requests I get following...
View ArticleIO-Socket-SSL 1.80 trouble
Hi, After update IO-Socket-SSL from 1.77 to 1.80 and trying to connect to a Vsphere resources I get: ******************************************************************* Using the default of...
View Articlehttp_put_file() leads to error 500.
Hi, I have 2 ESXs led by a vSphere Server. I am trying to upload some stuff to a specified VM using the vifs.pl script (source here : http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-10774 ), however I am...
View ArticleSOAP Fault he object has already been deleted or has not been completely created
Hi, i get this error when i try to clone a vm, via perl sdk. this error occurs intermittently, sometimes fails and others it's ok.The full error is: 12-03 13:30 NACHITO DEBUG ('ERR',...
View Articlevmclone.pl how to customize IP address for Guest OS?
I need to give a static IP to the guest OS after the clone by vmclone.pl. However, in the sample file, I only see a few items which can be customized: <Specification> <Customization-Spec>...
View Articlevmclone.pl errors
I am using following spec to customize the guest OS with vmclone.pl, but keep getting errors: /usr/lib/vmware-vcli/apps/vm/vmclone.pl --vmhost vm-23. --vmname sdktest-01 --vmname_destination...
View Articlevmprovision.pl with dvswitch
Has anyone made vmprovision.pl work with a dvswitch? A new VM is created with a valid port group NAME, but the port group is invalid as it is created as a standard port group, not one that exists...
View ArticleA way to automate the SDK install script? ./vmware-install.pl
Hi All, Random question in the true spirit of automation.If one has already installed required Perl Modules needed for this script and If they wanted this completely automated without getting...
View Articleresxtop is 32bit only?
I've installed the perl sdk "VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-5.1.0-780721.x86_64.gz" on centos 6.3-x86_64, supposedly successfully (after a few quirks, such as the UUID needing libuuid-devel). However, resxtop...
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