Datastore search does not return all files
vSphere Server 4.1.0, SDK 4.1.0-254719 I'm running a Datastore search using SearchDatastoreSubFolders with a SeachSpec using a VmConfigFileQuery. For a given Datastore containing 9 virtual machines,...
View ArticleWhat would cause an inaccessible datastore?
I am writing a script to import existing datastores and crawl thru them to add all VMs that it finds to the inventory. I know I had this working on our production environment before. Now I built a...
View ArticleHow to edit the port profile for a specific network adapter using Perl SDK?
I have been using VMWare vSphere Perl SDK 5.0 (Linux 64-bit) to perform some very basic operations like Creating / Deleting VM'sAdding network adapter and assigning a port profileHowever, I could not...
View Articlevdiskcreate.pl adds the disk to VM, But disk is not usable until we create...
Dear All, We used the vdiskcreate.pl script to add the a disk to newly deployed VM, But we could not see the partition, hence it requires reboot, then it requires us to create LVM and mount it some...
View ArticlePowerCLI translation to Perl?
I am working on a script and a PowerCLI commandlet seems to already be written for it. The script adds an existing vm to an existing DRS Rule. Here is the code for the commandlet I would like to...
View ArticleSoap fault on vmdk creation
I want to create a vmdk on my datastore so I attempted this sub atomicAddDisks{ # Getting the views print"DEBUG : GETTING CONTENT\n"; my$content= Vim::get_service_content(); my$VDiskManager=...
View ArticleHow to remove a DRS rule?
Hi, I tried to use the following code to remove a DRS rule but it did not work. my $ruleinfo = ClusterRuleInfo->new(name => "testrule"); my $rules_spec =...
View ArticleHow do you query the alarms
I would like to get the alarms listed on the Alarms tab in vCenter programatically. I have tried numerous ways to do it, but have never been able to do it. Anyone got an example that I can look at...
View ArticleDid I find an API bug? : Adding multiple disks soap error
I am able to add the disks linearly like below: my $vmSpec = VirtualMachineConfigSpec->new(deviceChange => [$devSpecs[0]]); $vmView->ReconfigVM(spec => $vmSpec); my $vmSpec =...
View ArticleWhat is causing "toolsNotInstalled"?
I'm using Perl VMware::VIRuntime module to create VMs. VM can be created, but upon "power on", toolsStatus shows "toolsNotInstalled". I'm stuck, not knowing what caused this problem. Advice is...
View ArticleSDK needs admin/root privilledges to perform VM creation/deploy
Dear All, We need to know, Does vSphere SDK requires admin/root permission to perform VM deployment from template or create VM etc.? We see some permission denied issue when we perform such operation...
View ArticleDatacenter Informations
i need a perl API script for getting these following informations about datacenter .Number of ESXi ServersNumber of Physical CPUsNumber of CoresAmount of Physical RamNumber of VMs Combined Datastore...
View ArticleGetting a count of all VMs (with some filtering)
I'm trying to get a total count of VMs, excluding some vShield Edge devices and any VMs in a certain Resource Pool (System vDC). I'm starting with this: use strict;use warnings;use...
View ArticleFind Number of core in VM or Host
Hi Friends, Please help to find the number of core present in the datacenter or host or vm using the perl api script . Thanks in Advance . (No. Of CPU in vm= No. of core in vm) is it...
View ArticleConfiguring IP address, Domain etc to a VM after deploying from template
Dear All, We have a deployed the VM from template, But needs to bring the VM to network by assigning IP, bringing VM to domain etc, How we can achieve this with vSphere SDK perl. if any pointer please...
View Articlehow to get host and vm performance data?
Hi,Is it there any method to get host and vm performance data ,like cpu ,mem and io utilization ? I am guessing data in vCenter server database ,But I don't know how to translate it .I want get these...
View ArticleFailed to create DataStore
Hello I want to create datastore by using the SDK CreateVmfsDatastore, But when I run it I got the soap error :<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:ns0="urn:vim25"...
View ArticleLinked clone gives "Cannot complete customization"
Dear All, This is very urgent and need immediate assistance. I tried to do Linked clone from snapshot but while customization step it report error and bailout with message as SOAP...
View Articlehow to define disk size with clone vm
Any one know how to define disk size when clone one vm ? following code doesn't work : my $disk = VirtualDisk->new (capacityInKB => $size); my $devspec =...
View ArticleAssign IP address to VM
Hi All, I am new to this community. What I am trying to do is :1. Clone our one of the existing VM using vmclone.pl2. I am mounting an ISO image to it using vmISOManagement.pl...
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