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Re: Storage vmotion webpage (perl, php, html). How to get progress bar?

asp24 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:26:43 GMT

The result for now (no progress bar)

Not pretty, but works every time.

All files should be in the same directory on the webserver. svmotion.html is the start-page.

Change it to your own needs.

edit: a small typo in the vmquery.php page. Missed one =

select name='newpath'

Re: Storage vmotion webpage (perl, php, html). How to get progress bar?

asp24 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:24:10 GMT

Thank you! that worked like I wanted it. Now I can have a dropdown menu for destination datastore also.

Now, if I just could find a way to poll the relocate status from vc...

Re: Storage vmotion webpage (perl, php, html). How to get progress bar?

vmwaredude1 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:53:23 GMT

You can use the vifs command

vifs --server VC server --username administrator --password XYZ -Z 'New Datacenter' --listds

I think, this syntax should work for u

Let, me know the results

Thanks

Re: Storage vmotion webpage (perl, php, html). How to get progress bar?

asp24 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:03:55 GMT

By the way.. I'm looking for a small script to list ALL datastores in VC. I want ONLY the friendly names, one name per line.

Like this:

Iscsi1_1

Iscsi1_2

Iscsi2_1

etc

I have found some scripts that will list the datastores, but they also list a lot of other info I do not need. I have not been able to modify them to only output what I want. Can someone please give me an example of how to do this ?

Storage vmotion webpage (perl, php, html). How to get progress bar?

asp24 — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:48:27 GMT

I have created a "dirty" web page using PHP (I do not know Perl well) that does the following:

Log in to VirtualCenter (2.5) and get the storage/config file paths for all registered VM's (like this: iscsi1_1 vm/vm.vmx)

Put the list into a dropdown menu and have an input field for the target storage location. And a move-button to start svmotion.

This is a very dirty solution right now, but it works for me!

The question now is: How can I get a progress bar for the svmotion?

I have included the neccessary files. I have installed this on my apache (linux) webserver with php and perl configured. You will have to install the Remote Client and Perl API to run this.

(VMware-RCLI-1.1.0-64577.i386.tar.gz and VMware-VmPerlAPI-2.3.2-39850.tar.gz used)

Sorry about the bad programming! I'm not exactly a programmer...