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C - gSOAP : How to get Virtual Machine list using TraversalSpec objects and RetrieveProperties method ??

netix_evg — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:44:59 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to list all VMs for a particular ESX server. I have written C code similare to "VI Perl SDK" method "Vim::find_entity_views(view_type => 'VirtualMachine');" (method in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/VMware/VICommon.pm module......... attaching VIComman.pm with this thread) but code seems to be not working ... means not giving me expected reference to VirtualMachine Objects.

Following is the code snip that I am using :

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enum xsd__boolean skip = xsd__boolean__false_;
enum xsd__boolean all = xsd__boolean__true_;

resourcePoolTraversalSpec->name = "resourcePoolTraversalSpec";
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->type = "ResourcePool";
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->path = "resourcePool";
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->skip = &skip;
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->selectSet = (struct ns2__SelectionSpec *)malloc(2 * sizeof(struct ns2__SelectionSpec));
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].name = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->name;
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].dynamicType = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].__sizedynamicProperty = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].dynamicProperty = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].name = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->name;
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].dynamicType = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].__sizedynamicProperty = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
resourcePoolTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].dynamicProperty = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->name = "resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec";
resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->type = "ResourcePool";
resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->path = "vm";
resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->skip = &skip;

computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->name = "computeResourceRpTraversalSpec";
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->type = "ComputeResource";
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->path = "resourcePool";
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->skip = &skip;
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->selectSet = (struct ns2__SelectionSpec *)malloc(2 * sizeof(struct ns2__SelectionSpec));
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].name = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->name;
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].dynamicType = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].__sizedynamicProperty = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].dynamicProperty = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].name = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->name;
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].dynamicType = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].__sizedynamicProperty = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].dynamicProperty = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->name = "computeResourceHostTraversalSpec";
computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->type = "ComputeResource";
computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->path = "host";
computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->skip = &skip;

datacenterHostTraversalSpec->name = "datacenterHostTraversalSpec";
datacenterHostTraversalSpec->type = "Datacenter";
datacenterHostTraversalSpec->path = "hostFolder";
datacenterHostTraversalSpec->skip = &skip;
datacenterHostTraversalSpec->selectSet = (struct ns2__SelectionSpec *)malloc(sizeof(struct ns2__SelectionSpec));
datacenterHostTraversalSpec->selectSet->name = folderTraversalSpec->name;
datacenterHostTraversalSpec->selectSet->dynamicType = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
datacenterHostTraversalSpec->selectSet->__sizedynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
datacenterHostTraversalSpec->selectSet->dynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

datacenterVmTraversalSpec->name = "datacenterVmTraversalSpec";
datacenterVmTraversalSpec->type = "Datacenter";
datacenterVmTraversalSpec->path = "vmFolder";
datacenterVmTraversalSpec->skip = &skip;
datacenterVmTraversalSpec->selectSet = (struct ns2__SelectionSpec *)malloc(sizeof(struct ns2__SelectionSpec));
datacenterVmTraversalSpec->selectSet->name = folderTraversalSpec->name;
datacenterVmTraversalSpec->selectSet->dynamicType = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
datacenterVmTraversalSpec->selectSet->__sizedynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
datacenterVmTraversalSpec->selectSet->dynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

hostVmTraversalSpec->name = "hostVmTraversalSpec";
hostVmTraversalSpec->type = "HostSystem";
hostVmTraversalSpec->path = "vm";
hostVmTraversalSpec->skip = &skip;
hostVmTraversalSpec->selectSet = (struct ns2__SelectionSpec *)malloc(sizeof(struct ns2__SelectionSpec));
hostVmTraversalSpec->selectSet->name = folderTraversalSpec->name;
hostVmTraversalSpec->selectSet->dynamicType = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
hostVmTraversalSpec->selectSet->__sizedynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
hostVmTraversalSpec->selectSet->dynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

folderTraversalSpec->name = "folderTraversalSpec";
folderTraversalSpec->type = "Folder";
folderTraversalSpec->path = "childEntity";
folderTraversalSpec->skip = &skip;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet = (struct ns2__SelectionSpec *)malloc(7 * sizeof(struct ns2__SelectionSpec));
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].name = folderTraversalSpec->name;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].dynamicType = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].__sizedynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[0].dynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].name = datacenterHostTraversalSpec->name;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].dynamicType = datacenterHostTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].__sizedynamicProperty = datacenterHostTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[1].dynamicProperty = datacenterHostTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[2].name = datacenterVmTraversalSpec->name;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[2].dynamicType = datacenterVmTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[2].__sizedynamicProperty = datacenterVmTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[2].dynamicProperty = datacenterVmTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[3].name = computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->name;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[3].dynamicType = computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[3].__sizedynamicProperty = computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[3].dynamicProperty = computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[4].name = computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->name;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[4].dynamicType = computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[4].__sizedynamicProperty = computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[4].dynamicProperty = computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[5].name = hostVmTraversalSpec->name;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[5].dynamicType = hostVmTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[5].__sizedynamicProperty = hostVmTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[5].dynamicProperty = hostVmTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[6].name = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->name;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[6].dynamicType = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[6].__sizedynamicProperty = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
folderTraversalSpec->selectSet[6].dynamicProperty = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

objSpec[0].skip = &skip;
objSpec[0].obj = sc->rootFolder;
objSpec[0].selectSet = (struct ns2__SelectionSpec *)malloc(8 * sizeof(struct ns2__SelectionSpec));

objSpec[0].selectSet[0].name = folderTraversalSpec->name;
objSpec[0].selectSet[0].dynamicType = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
objSpec[0].selectSet[0].__sizedynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
objSpec[0].selectSet[0].dynamicProperty = folderTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

objSpec[0].selectSet[1].name = datacenterVmTraversalSpec->name;
objSpec[0].selectSet[1].dynamicType = datacenterVmTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
objSpec[0].selectSet[1].__sizedynamicProperty = datacenterVmTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
objSpec[0].selectSet[1].dynamicProperty = datacenterVmTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

objSpec[0].selectSet[2].name = datacenterHostTraversalSpec->name;
objSpec[0].selectSet[2].dynamicType = datacenterHostTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
objSpec[0].selectSet[2].__sizedynamicProperty = datacenterHostTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
objSpec[0].selectSet[2].dynamicProperty = datacenterHostTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

objSpec[0].selectSet[3].name = computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->name;
objSpec[0].selectSet[3].dynamicType = computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
objSpec[0].selectSet[3].__sizedynamicProperty = computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
objSpec[0].selectSet[3].dynamicProperty = computeResourceHostTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

objSpec[0].selectSet[4].name = computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->name;
objSpec[0].selectSet[4].dynamicType = computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
objSpec[0].selectSet[4].__sizedynamicProperty = computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
objSpec[0].selectSet[4].dynamicProperty = computeResourceRpTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

objSpec[0].selectSet[5].name = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->name;
objSpec[0].selectSet[5].dynamicType = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
objSpec[0].selectSet[5].__sizedynamicProperty = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
objSpec[0].selectSet[5].dynamicProperty = resourcePoolTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

objSpec[0].selectSet[6].name = hostVmTraversalSpec->name;
objSpec[0].selectSet[6].dynamicType = hostVmTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
objSpec[0].selectSet[6].__sizedynamicProperty = hostVmTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
objSpec[0].selectSet[6].dynamicProperty = hostVmTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

objSpec[0].selectSet[7].name = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->name;
objSpec[0].selectSet[7].dynamicType = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->dynamicType;
objSpec[0].selectSet[7].__sizedynamicProperty = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->__sizedynamicProperty;
objSpec[0].selectSet[7].dynamicProperty = resourcePoolVmTraversalSpec->dynamicProperty;

proSpec[0].type = "VirtualMachine";
proSpec[0].all = &all;

proFiltSpec[0].objectSet = objSpec;
proFiltSpec[0].__sizeobjectSet = MAX_OBJECT_SPEC;
proFiltSpec[0].propSet = proSpec;
proFiltSpec[0].__sizepropSet = MAX_PROPERTY_SPEC;

retProp._USCOREthis = sc->propertyCollector;
retProp.__sizespecSet = MAX_PROPERTY_FILTER_SPEC;
retProp.specSet = proFiltSpec;

if (SOAP_OK != soap_call___ns2__RetrieveProperties(soap, EndPoint, "", &retProp, &retPropResp))
{
if (soap->error) soap_print_fault(soap, stderr);
free(proFiltSpec);
free(objSpec);
free(proSpec);
return FALSE;
}

if (!retPropResp.returnval)
{
fprintf(stderr," ****** No Object found ********\n");
free(proFiltSpec);
free(objSpec);
free(proSpec);
return FALSE;
}
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Could anyone tell me what's wrong with the above code ??

Any body having the C code to find the list of VMs running on the Particular ESX ??

Does anyone have java or C# code similare to above C code snip ???

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manfred9999 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:37:12 GMT

Hello

I like to retrieve the possible migration destinations of a Virtual Machine. Can I use the VmProvisioningChecker.CheckMigrate_Task?

How can I implement it and what kind of result should it return? I did run a test and it returns a moref of type task. I was not able to get the object of this moref.

Can I also use it on ESX 3.5 / 3.0 Systems and Virtualcenter 2.x?

A sample would be great.

Regards

Manfred

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janetdoyle — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:35:25 GMT

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How about snapshot size? I looked through the MOB and it wasn't very obivious where this value is (if at all).

Thanks,

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praveenps — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:09:12 GMT

Hi,

I tried to build the attached code and connect with esm 3.5 host, but it fails. FOllowing is the output. I have copied the "rui.crt" file from ESX host (/etc/vmware/ssl dir). Please help!

RetrieveServiceContent - OK
fullName: VMware ESX Server 3.5.0 build-153875
name: VMware ESX Server
build: 153875
version: 3.5.0

test1.cpp 78
SOAP 1.1 fault: "":ServerFaultCode no subcode
"type"
Detail:

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ChaitanyaS — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:19:08 GMT

Hi,

Can anyone please let me know which API is used to connect to the host server? Which steps do i need to follow?

I went through one of the examples (http://blogs.vmware.com/developer/2009/07/vsphere-sdk-hello-world.html) posted on the community but did not find the same APIs in the WSDL which i've.

I want to connect to host server from my web application (asp.net) and perform various operations on it.

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shaileshd — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:28:25 GMT

I am trying to create a datastore on my esx server. I have the Managed Object Reference to the HostDatastoreSystem. I also have set the fields correctly in the HostNasVolumeSpec.

I am using C++, and have not been able to find any examples regarding how to access the methods of different objects.

I have:

hostDatastoreSystemMOR = *((vim2__ManagedObjectReference*)responseContent->propSet[idx]->t;val);

/* __item and type of the hostDatastoreSystemMOR print correctly. type = HostDataStoreSystem and __item prints the name*/

vim2__HostNasVolumeSpec spec;


spec.localPath=""; spec.remoteHost="";spec.remotePath=""; // these are set correctly.

/* at this point I am all set to CreateNasDatastore() */

but my call:

hostDatastoreSystemMOR .CreateNasDatastore(spec)

gets compile error "class vim2__ManagedObjectReference has no member named CreateNasDatastore".

The error looks correct as there is no CreateNasDatastore() in the ManagedObjectReference.

My question is How do I call CreateNasDataStore() when I have a MOR to HostDatastoreSystem.

really appreciate the help.

thanks

WaitForUpdates Hangs

manfred9999 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:50:39 GMT

Hello

I use WaitForUpdates to receive new events. Somtimes my application hangs on the line of code where the WaitForUpdates is called.

I don't see a solutin to avoid this problem. Does anyone have any simular expierience?

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I have a virtual machine with two virtual disks one is stored with vm itself and other one is on a

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know find out which redo log belongs to which base disk.

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Hello,

I've got a simple inventory query setup that pulls back all of the virtual machines in vCenter. Is there any easy way to get the cluster name that the VM resides in? I'm not finding a basic VM property that contains this information. I see there's a "parent" property, so I'm not sure if that's what I need to use or not. A code snippet below is basically what I'd like to do:

IList<EntityViewBase> vmList = client.FindEntityViews(typeof(VirtualMachine), null, null, null);

foreach (VirtualMachine vm in vmList)
{
Console.WriteLine(vm.Name);
Console.WirteLine(vm.??)
}

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Trouble with find_entity_views

piuhapofuhpaosf — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:08:05 GMT

I'm trying to grab all of the templates from a datacenter. To do that, I'm trying to use find_entity_views and filter by 'config.template' => 1. Unfortunately, this is not working for me. Here's the code:

my $dc = $vim->find_entity_view(view_type=>'Datacenter',
filter=>{name=>'CALO-RTP-DEV'});

my $v = $vim->find_entity_views(view_type=>'VirtualMachine',
filter=>{'config.template'=>1},
begin_entity=>$dc->vmFolder);
print Dumper $v;

foreach my $x (@$v) {
print $x->name ."\n";
}

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Trouble with find_entity_views

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Hi

I'm using VI SDK java to find out the following:

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Just wrote a tutorial:

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Steve JIN, VMware Engineering
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iscsi initiator from the guest os

shaileshd — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:55:49 GMT

I have ESX Server 4.0. It has windows server 2003 VM. From my client I have to get various properties of the esx server and the VM.
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I need this info to be populated on the client.

To get the info I am using the VI SDK 4.0. I am also looking at the MOB browser and have looked at each property and the links for the relevant VM, but none of the properties seem to return this info.

I need to confirm if this info can be obtained. And if it can, it will be great if someone explains how.

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janetdoyle — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:20:12 GMT

Disk Latency Metric

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Thanks,

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HI,

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Hi,

I'm trying to use the SetTaskState method to cancel a task, providing a specific message, but I'm not having much luck.

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Regards

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johndemic — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:44:14 GMT

Hey All,

I'm executing the following SOAP request to determine the amount of tasks running on VirtualCenter:

<CreateCollectorForTasks xmlns="urn:vim2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<_this type="TaskManager">TaskManager</_this>
<filter>
<state>running</state>
</filter>
</CreateCollectorForTasks>

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"The operation is not allowed in the current state"

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silmaril — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:11:30 GMT

I'm trying to build a Soap request in ruby and is unable to retrieve performance information from the vCenter server.

Below is the request I'm using. Can someone please tell me where I'm going wrong?

<env:Body>
<n2:QueryPerfComposite xmlns:n2="urn:vim25">
<n2:_this type="PerformanceManager">PerfMgr</n2:_this>
<n2:querySpec xsi:type="n2:PerfQuerySpec">
<n2:entity>vm-585</n2:entity>
</n2:querySpec>
</n2:QueryPerfComposite>
</env:Body>

= Response

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

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HI all,

Is there any vi sdk api by which i can create multiple VMs form same base vmdk file?

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Thanks in advance......

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MikeMatczynski — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:54:16 GMT

I'm importing an OVF appliance into vCenter 4.0 using the VI API (vijava to be specific).

I'm calling the importVApp method to get a HttpNfcLease, which gives me a HttpNfcLeaseInfo, and a list of HttpNfcLeaseDeviceUrl objects.

Question is:

What determines the format of the HttpNfcLeaseDeviceUrl's importKey property? Based on the OVF file described below, the importKey is being set to the value "/ImportTest1/VirtualLsiLogicController0:4". I understand how "/TestExport1" is generated, but I am not sure how "/VirtualLsiLogicController0:4" is derived. I would have expected it to be named after the OVF's diskId property.

I'm free to modify the OVF, so if there's anything I need to set on the Harddisk elements, that'd be fine as well.

Thanks!

Mike

Excerpts from the OVF descriptor:

<References>
<ovf:File ovf:id="fileRef0" ovf:href="ImportTest.vmdk" ovf:size="447" />
<ovf:File ovf:id="fileRef1" ovf:href="ImportTest-flat.vmdk" ovf:size="1048576" />
</References>
<DiskSection>
<Info>List of the virtual disks used in the package</Info>
<ovf:Disk ovf:capacity="1048576" ovf:diskId="disk0" ovf:fileRef="fileRef0" ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized" />
</DiskSection>

...

<ovf:Item>
<rasd:ElementName>SCSI Controller 0</rasd:ElementName>
<rasd:InstanceID>10</rasd:InstanceID>
<rasd:ResourceSubType>LsiLogic</rasd:ResourceSubType>
<rasd:ResourceType>6</rasd:ResourceType>
</ovf:Item>
<ovf:Item>
<rasd:ElementName>Harddisk disk0</rasd:ElementName>
<rasd:HostResource>ovf:/disk/disk0</rasd:HostResource>
<rasd:InstanceID>11</rasd:InstanceID>
<rasd:ResourceSubType>10</rasd:ResourceSubType>
<rasd:ResourceType>17</rasd:ResourceType>
</ovf:Item>

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I have been trying to use the OVFManager through the SDK to import an OVF VM. I am using vb.net and c#. However, I cannot see how to connect to the OVFManager (cannot see it anywhere).

Does anyone have some example code on how to do this?

C# Using Single SignOn (SSPI) for Virtual Center 2.5.0.119598

utarion — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:21:29 GMT

I am trying to use passthru authentication using SSPI to work in my c# application. Here is a snippet of the code I am trying to get to work.

returns a reference for VMware.Vim.SessionManager

VMware.Vim.VimClient vimClient = new VMware.Vim.VimClient();
vimClient.Connect("10.x.x.x", CommunicationProtocol.Https, 443);

ManagedObjectReference serviceInstance = new ManagedObjectReference();
serviceInstance.Type = "ServiceInstance";
serviceInstance.Value = "ServiceInstance";

SessionManager sm = new SessionManager(vimClient, serviceInstance);
sm.LoginBySSPI(ct_b64, null);

I get an exception when I try to call this method LoginBySSPI

I am not sure that this is the correct approach, but I really would like to be able to login using single signon in my c# code but not having much success.
This works fine using PowerShell but I want to be able to do this directly using c# without using PS Pipelines.

Any suggesstions welcome.

Thanks

Wait for vm clone task - vb.net

DroppedAtBirth — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:46:34 GMT

I have all my clone code working but need to find a way to wait for the clone task to finish. Currently using the Vim25Api to do my cloning but can't get VimServer.WaitForUpdates to wait ont he task but I get an error saying I am not connected... Alot of post on the forum talk about and show using WaitForTask, which is what I have used in vSphere PowerCLI before but I don't see it anywhere in the Vim25api. I do find it in the VMware.Vim api. Anyone have an example of waiting on a clone task using the Vim25api in .net? Or is there another way I should be trying to wait for the task.

Dim cloneTask As ManagedObjectReference = _service.CloneVM_Task(templateRef, vmFolderRef, VMName, cloneSpec)

Thanks

Rob

SEC_E_INVALID_HANDLE error in InitializeClient() while trying to do LoginBySSPI()

vinubaby — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:33:13 GMT

I am trying to login to my VMware vSphere 4 server using the PowerCLI api.

The purpose of the project is to automatically take snapshot of the virtual machines. However the purpose is accomplished. But before moving to production, we had to change from Login() to LoginBySSPI() for enabling integrated login.

At this point, the problem arose. Whatever, I do it does not login, fromt he vmware forum i understood that the sspichallenge code should be sent again to be authenticated. When i do that it throws the SEC_E_INVALID_HANDLE error at the initializeClient() function.

code snippet is as follows

I get error in the InitializeClient() function when it is called the second time from the catch section,

in the first call to InitializeClient(), i get the clientToken of byte 55
and then when i pass it to loginbysspi i get the sspichallenge exception, from which i get the base64token and again pass to the initializeclient() so that i can get the server token and eventually pass to the LoginbySSPI(), but this time it fails at

if (ss != SEC_E_OK && ss != SEC_I_CONTINUE_NEEDED)
{
throw new Exception("InitializeSecurityContext() failed!!!");
}
with ss = -2146893055

below is the code.... \\\\ VimClient VMClient;
SessionManager sm;
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
VMClient = new VimClient();
VMClient.Connect("vmware", CommunicationProtocol.Https, 443);

var tokenString = Convert.ToBase64String(net.sf.vitfordotnet.mo.Sessionmanager.getToken());
DoLogin(tokenString);

sm = new SessionManager(VMClient, VMClient.ServiceContent.SessionManager);
sm.LoginBySSPI(tokenString, null);
}
catch (VMware.Vim.VimException ex)
{
var mf = ex.MethodFault;
// There was a challenge (response)!
if (mf is SSPIChallenge)
{
var sc = (SSPIChallenge)mf;
var st_b64 = sc.Base64Token;
byte--] st = null;--
-- byte[-- ct;
bool cc;
st = Convert.FromBase64String(st_b64);
// Complete the credentials acquisition, this time with
// the second part of the package.
var ch = new SSPIHelper();
ch.InitializeClient(out ct, st, out cc);
var ct_b64 = Convert.ToBase64String(ct);
DoLogin(ct_b64);
}
}
NameValueCollection filter = new NameValueCollection();
filter.Add("name", "^" + "CG001876" + "$");
VirtualMachine vm = (VirtualMachine)VMClient.FindEntityView(typeof(VirtualMachine), null, filter, null);
}
public void DoLogin(string tokenStr)
{
SessionManager sm = new SessionManager(VMClient, VMClient.ServiceContent.SessionManager);
UserSession us = sm.LoginBySSPI(tokenStr, null);
}

how to monitor tasks using VI SDK that is how to know when a task has exactly completed

srimini — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:58:33 GMT

Hi ,

i need to know when actually a task is completed using VI API whether it is a success or failure ..........for example if i use shutdownguest method on a vm to shut down the guest the method returns immediately invoking the task...but can someone help me with the code to know whethet the system has shut down completely?

Thanks in advance

Regards,

Padmini

create screenshot for a vm

tshamul — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:51:00 GMT

hi.

I'm using vShpere web service SDK and i want to take a screenshot of my working vm.

I used the function CreateScreenshot_Task, the API returns that task had success, but i have no screenshot.

I have searched on the vmx folder in the ESX but it's also not there.

Maybe it's in some other place? may i set the output path (can it be on the client side?)

Thanks!

Looking for help on creating a C# class that can query for cpu utilization on a host

shenji — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:34:53 GMT

I am having trouble writing a class to query for the cpu usage when you pass in a host and the required information. Does anyone have a sample code or a guide on how to write such a program?

Thanks

no performance data for host

workvmware — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:15:14 GMT

*
Hello, I am retrieving the performance data from the VC Server and when I get the list of perfQuerySpec, I get 10 managed entities, 2 hosts and 8 VMs as we have set up in our VC server. Then when I pass in perfQuerySpec objects in queryPerf() method to retrieve performance metrics, my host managed entity magically disappears after queryPerf() is executed (i.e. when I get the values[] of type PerfEntityMetricBase, please see code below). It has only managed entities of mor type VirtualMachine, but not HostSystem. The hosts that are configured in the VC server are ESX 4.0. It works fine with VC server that has ESX 3.0. Could you please let me know what the problem is?

Please see below for code snippet.

Thank you.

Sushant

======================================

for (*int* i = 0; i < mor_hosts.size(); i++) {

*

ManagedObjectReference mor_host = mor_hosts.get(i);

ManagedEntity me_host = getMeHosts();

PerfProviderSummary pps_hosts = pm.queryPerfProviderSummary(me_host);

int refreshRate_hosts = pps_hosts.getRefreshRate();

PerfMetricId[] metricId_hosts = pm.queryAvailablePerfMetric(me_host, _calendarPerfStart, _calendarPerfEnd, refreshRate_hosts);

PerfQuerySpec qSpec_hosts = new PerfQuerySpec();

qSpec_hosts.setEntity(mor_host);

qSpec_hosts.setStartTime(_calendarPerfStart);

qSpec_hosts.setEndTime(_calendarPerfEnd);

qSpec_hosts.setMetricId(metricId_hosts);

qSpec_hosts.setIntervalId(refreshRate_hosts);

qSpec_hosts.setFormat("csv");

perfQuerySpeccounter = qSpec_hosts;

++ counter;

ArrayList<ManagedObjectReference> mor_vms = _vmu.getVirtualMachineMORs(_inventoryCurrent, mor_host);

for (*int* j = 0; j < mor_vms.size(); j++) {

ManagedObjectReference mor_vm = mor_vms.get(j);

ManagedEntity me_vms = getMeVms();

PerfProviderSummary pps_vms = pm.queryPerfProviderSummary(me_vms);

int refreshRate_vms = pps_vms.getRefreshRate();

PerfMetricId[] metricId_vms = pm.queryAvailablePerfMetric(me_vms, _calendarPerfStart, _calendarPerfEnd, refreshRate_vms);

PerfQuerySpec qSpec_vms = new PerfQuerySpec();

qSpec_vms.setEntity(mor_vm);

qSpec_vms.setStartTime(_calendarPerfStart);

qSpec_vms.setEndTime(_calendarPerfEnd);

qSpec_vms.setMetricId(metricId_vms);

qSpec_vms.setIntervalId(refreshRate_vms);

qSpec_vms.setFormat("csv");

perfQuerySpeccounter = qSpec_vms;

++ counter;

}

PerfEntityMetricBase[] values = null;

values = pm.queryPerf(perfQuerySpec);

error (501) not implemented

dmitrif — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:08:49 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to access the WBEM service of the CIMOM on the ESX Server 3i and all my requests end up with this error "(501) not implemented".

What is it?

I use wbemsharp (http://code.google.com/p/wbemtools/wiki/Intro) for my client and the connection is over HTTPS.

Thanks in advance

How to move files from one folder to another folder in datastore

haroon09 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:16:31 GMT

I want to move some files (which aI already got using "HostDatastoreBrowser") from one file system folder to another file system folder (not Managed Object folder).

In VI client we can move files when we are browsing the datastore from one folder to another folder, I want to do the same thing.

Thanks

Virtual CDROM not connected on VM Power On

heliocenterist — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:39:56 GMT

Gentlemen!

I would very much appreciate any help. The problem is as follows: using VimAPI we power off a certain VM, then insert an ISO into a virtual CDROM, then we set the CDROM's "Start connected" flag to true and power on the VM. The CDROM should be connected after the VM starts, but it isn't. The flag "Connect at power on" is set, but "Connected" is false.

This bug happens when we access the VM via VirtualCenter. If we use ESX server, it works fine.

Here's how we setup the CDROM and its VirtualDeviceConfigSpec

VirtualCdromIsoBackingInfo newBacking = new VirtualCdromIsoBackingInfo();
newBacking.fileName = isoPath;
newCdrom.backing = newBacking;
newCdrom.connectable.startConnected = true;

VirtualDeviceConfigSpec deviceSpec = new VirtualDeviceConfigSpec();
deviceSpec.device = newCdrom;
deviceSpec.operation = VirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation.edit;
deviceSpec.operationSpecified = true;
deviceSpecs.Add(deviceSpec);

Then we reconfig the VM to apply the CDROM settings using ReconfigVM_Task().

Can someone please explain how to start a VM with a connected CDROM using VirtualCenter?

sdk installation guide

acnsys — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:41:13 GMT

Hi,

I am starting having a look at the VI SDK. I am using a windows XP workstation with JAVA SE and Apache Axis.
I am reading the sdkinstallationguide.pdf and when it comes to test my setup i receive this error:

C:\devprojects\visdk\samples\Axis\java\com\vmware>java -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=c:
VMware-Certs -Xmx1024M com.vmware.vimsample.simpleclient.SimpleClient https://myvc.acme.com/sdk root password

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/vmware/vimsample/
simpleclient/SimpleClient
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.vmware.vimsample.simpleclient.S
impleClient
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)
Could not find the main class: com.vmware.vimsample.simpleclient.SimpleClient.
Program will exit.

I have setup the paths as suggested in the guide:

AXISCLASSPATH=C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\axis.jar;C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\commons-discovery.jar;C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\commons-logging.jar;C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\jaxrpc.jar;C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\saaj.jar;C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\log4j-1.2.8.jar;C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\xml-apis.jar;C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib\xercesImpl.jar

AXISHOME=C:\apache\axis
AXIS_HOME=C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\axis\WEB-INF
AXIS_LIB=C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\lib
CLASSPATH=C:\apache\axis\lib\axis.jar;C:\apache\axis\lib\axis-ant.jar;C:\apache\axis\lib\commons-discovery-0.2.jar;C:\apache\axis\lib\commons-logging-1.0.4.jar;C:\apache\axis\lib\jaxrpc.jar;C:\apache\axis\lib\log4j-1.2.8.jar;C:\apache\axis\lib\saaj.jar;C:\apache\axis\lib\wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_03\lib\tools.jar;C:\devprojects\visdk\samples\Axis\java\vim.jar;C:\devprojects\visdk\samples\Axis\java\lib\activation.jar;C:\devprojects\visdk\samples\Axis\java\lib\mailapi.jar
JAVAHOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_03
KEYSTORE=C:\VMware-Certs
SDKHOME=C:\devprojects\visdk
WBEMHOME=C:\devprojects\visdk\samples\Axis\java\lib\wbem.jar
WSDLFILE=C:\devprojects\visdk\wsdl\vim25

Am i missing Java packages? Can someone help?

FindByUuid API doesn't work for template

whiteear — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:18:39 GMT

Hi all,

as document said, FindByUuid can be used to get the ManagedObjectReference of VirtualMachine or Host.

but i find if i use this API to query tempalte, it always failed. (the soap call reture OK, but the MOR is NULL).

here is the steps i used to create template:
1. create new VirtualMachine
2. convert the VM to template
3. try to find the MOR of template by its uuid.

here is the code snap:

ns2__ManagedObjectReference *morTemp = NULL;
ns2__FindByUuidRequestType request;
request._USCOREthis = serviceContent->searchIndex;
request.datacenter = NULL; /* search whole inventory */
request.uuid = uuid;
request.vmSearch = VimUtils::xsd_true;

_ns2__FindByUuidResponse response;
if (vim->__ns2__FindByUuid(&request,&response) == SOAP_OK)
{
morTemp = response.returnval;
} else {
VimUtils::makeErrorInfo(vim, errorInfo);
}

// reset the soap mode
soap_imode(vim->soap, SOAP_IO_DEFAULT);
soap_omode(vim->soap, SOAP_IO_DEFAULT);

i am using vCenter4 with ESX3.5, using gsoap to generate c++ code.

Regards!

iSCSI lun to datastore mapping broken in vCenter 2.5?

nkiesel — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:13:26 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to find the IP addresses of iSCSI servers that provide datastore storage. Under ESX3.5, I see e.g. vmhba32:2:0 in info.vmfs.extent.diskName of the datastore, and the same diskname is used in the Lun (from where the iSCSI server IP address is reachable via the transport address of HostScsiTopologyInterface for that vmhba. This all works fine when connecting directly (using SOAP or MOB) to the ESX server. However, when I connect to the VCS2.5 server managing this host, I sometimes see e.g. vmhba32:5:0 as diskName for the same datastore.

Removing and adding back the ESX host from the VCS server fixes it for this host, but skrews up the diskNames of other hosts in the same VCS2.5 server that access this datastore.

Any idea what's going on? I also checked with vshere client and I see the same disconnect here between the Configuration->Storage and Configuration->Storage Adapter.

Oh, and this seems to wotj fine for VCS4/ESX4 because this uses generated names (e.g. t10.F405E46494C45400D446F6557513D2131465B6D2466577A6) instead of the vmhba32:x:y names.

Best,

Norbert

vCloud API Session @ Technology Exchange Developer Day

navadavuluri — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:10:20 GMT

Download this Session: See attachment below.

Session abstract: VMware's vCloud API is a key element of VMware's vision for fostering a Cloud ecosystem of Service Providers, Enterprises, ISVs and VARs.The API enables provisioning and consumption of resources in the Cloud, management and publishing of VMs in the Cloud, as well as migration of VMs between internal and external Clouds. In this session, we will get into some details of the API and explore a few usage scenarios. The audience should walk away with an understanding of how the API fits within VMware's overall Cloud vision, what problem areas it addresses and the key concepts it exposes.

Level: Beginner

Presenter Bio

Tichomir Tenev

Tichomir is a senior staff engineer at VMware currently working on VMware's Cloud products. He has been with VMware since 2001 and has worked on a number of the well known VMware products today such as VMware workstation and VMware vCenter.

Prior to VMware, Tichomir worked for an energy trading startup and prior to that for a visualization company that spun off from Xerox PARC.

Tichomir holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT, as well as Bachelor Degrees in Computer Science and Applied Math from MIT.

vSphere Custom Tasks XXX com.package.label not found XXX

scott2 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:43:46 GMT

I am trying to get some custom tasks working in vSphere using C#. I have followed this thread http://communities.vmware.com/thread/214428 in setting up my custom tasks. I am seeing a lot of XXX com.package.label not found XXX in the Recent tasks in vSphere client. It seems to do this the first time a execute a custom task. If i execute the same custom task again it will display the proper label. If the label are showing up properly and i close and reopen the vSphere client some of them change to XXX com.package.label not found XXX.

Any ideas on how to get the labels to show properly everytime? Thanks.

Looking for the logic or sample code (C#) to load an ISO file for a VM

Leafy — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:47:56 GMT

There doesn't seem to be too much out there on loading ISO files for a VM within the VMware vSphere SDK. I'm looking for either the logic or a code sample.

Thanks in Advance!

Server Hardware Health - Perl Sample Code

dee-ash — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:08:48 GMT

reference to the attached perl script at http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-10665

Trying to run Hardware.pl on linux. I have vcli / perl sdk installed..

I keep getting this error while trying to run Hardware.pl ..

perl Hardware.pl

Can't locate WSMan/StubOps.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi ..........

Any idea what I am missing here.

thanks

Ruby sample code and library for VI SDK

ChrisPaglo — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:07:25 GMT

I have been working on using Ruby monitor VMware systems using the VI web services API. I have created a simple ruby library which wraps the SOAP access in an easier to use form. The functionality is pretty basic, but it may be helpful for other people who want to use VMware from ruby.

You can access the code here:

http://svn.paglo.com/paglo_open_source/ruby_vmware/trunk/

The code is licensed under the GPL.

Please feel free to contact me with issues or feedback.

Chris Waters
CTO, PhD
paglo.com - The Search Engine for IT
chris@paglo.com

Which api is used to find the path to a VMs vmdk given only its name (or minimal information)

IDPRESV — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:41:42 GMT

Hello,

I am searching for the proper API to find the absolute path to a Virtual Machines vmdk file.
Let’s say inputting the minimum amount of information (ideally just the Virtual machines

name) i would want to get the path like this:

"[ storage1 ] MailServer/SystemDisk.vmdk"

Can anyone point me to the right api or if they even know the methods/procedures that would be even better.

thank you

Building the samples in sdk

aswani521 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:37:52 GMT

I am trying to build the sdk.
I had installed VS 2005. I had set the %SDKHOME% to my SDK directory and I had set my %WSDLFILE% to %SDKHOME%\wsdl

C:\Documents and Settings\vknerell\Desktop\VMware\VSphere SDk\sdk\SDK\samples\DotNet\cs\SimpleClient\bin\Debug>echo %WSDLFILE%
C:\Documents and Settings\vknerell\Desktop\VMware\VSphere SDk\sdk\SDK\wsdl

when I execute the build2005 command from sdk command prompt. I am getting the following output of errors:

C:\Documents and Settings\vknerell\Desktop\VMware\VSphere SDk\sdk\SDK\samples\DotNet>Build2005
Visual Studio 2005 is installed
Setting Path
Error: Directory for WSDL files vim.wsdl and vimService.wsdl not specified
Please specify WSDL files to generate stubs for
The system cannot find the file specified.
E.g.
genvimstubs.cmd .\
Or to customize namespace stubfilename and dll names etc...
genvimstubs.cmd .\ VimApi .\stubdir MyVimStubs.cs .\dlldir MyVimStubs
ECHO is off.
Error: No Visual Studio 2005 environment settings found
Please run this script inside a Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt
ECHO is off.
Stub generation Failed!
ECHO is off.
Error: Directory for WSDL files vim.wsdl and vimService.wsdl not specified
Please specify WSDL files to generate stubs for
The system cannot find the file specified.
E.g.
genvimstubs.cmd .\
Or to customize namespace stubfilename and dll names etc...
genvimstubs.cmd .\ VimApi .\stubdir MyVimStubs.cs .\dlldir MyVimStubs
ECHO is off.
Error: No Visual Studio 2005 environment settings found
Please run this script inside a Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt
ECHO is off.
Stub generation Failed!
ECHO is off.
Building Samples in Debug mode
Done Building optimized Stubs and all Samples

The WSDL path has been set properly but why doesn't it find those files?

can somebody help me ?

CopyVirtualDisk_Task issue (VimSdk BUG)

tos2k — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:40:35 GMT

Hi folks. I want to copy a virtual disk via VimSdk 2.5.

For this I connect to the webservice of a ESX 3.5 server, and run the task. Worx fine. BUT: When I do this through a host, that has access to source and target datastore, but which is _not_hosting the VM the virtual disk belongs to, then, if the VM is powered-on, the host does not recongize that the virtual disk is not locked, when i created a snapshot for the VM via VC before. Tricky, I know.

Anybody that has been into this before?

As the VM is not known on the host that should copy its disk, it is not even possible to refresh the VM. Even refreshing the source datastore the VM resides on does not seem to help.

The error that comes up on the ESX: "General fault caused by file. Device or resource busy" - hm, okay, I understand this, but it is not the truth

Tos2k

Creating an event for rescan operations

Aristizabal — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:41:37 GMT

Hello,

I have been reading the Perl API documentation but I cannot find a way to monitor when a particular HBA is doing a rescan operation.

We have a shared environment where multiple people start rescan operations, which decreases the performance of the storage and even hangs the ESX server sometimes.

Is there any way to create a custom event for the rescan operation, or maybe get the whole list of tasks being executed at the ESX and then parse it for the rescan operation.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Juan Aristizabal.

support of moref in http request url to get the VM files

yvsvmware — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:04:50 GMT

For getting the VM files we need to formulate the httpurl in the form of

example - httpurl: https://hostname/folder/vmname?dcPath=ha-datacenter/&dsName=Storage is used for listing the folder.

and example httpurl: https://hostname/folder/vmname/vmname.vmx?dcPath=ha-datacenter&dsName=LocalStorage is used for getting the vmx file.

Here We need to form the vm specification like ?dcPath=dataCenter&dsName=dataStoreName which will be recognised as a http resource. As of now vm specification is not supported in moref form (like: "moref=24")

will this be supported in future releases?. otherwise its good-to have if moref is also supported.

Thanks

Yvs

Problem with AnswerVM_Task : unexpected arguments

Matmaht — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:37:28 GMT

Hello. I have a problem with the AnswerVM() .

code :

my $host_views=Vim::find_entity_views(view_type => 'HostSystem',
begin_entity => $cluster_view);
foreach my $host (reverse @$host_views) {

my $newvm_views = Vim::get_views(mo_ref_array => $host->vm);
foreach (@$newvm_views){
if (defined $_->runtime->question){
$_->AnswerVM($_->runtime->question->id, $_->runtime->question->choice->defaultIndex);
}
}

Error :

Unexpected arguments: 2 at C:/Program Files/VMware/VMware VI Perl Tool
kit/Perl/lib/VMware/VIM2Stub.pm line 25387
VimService::build_arg_string('ARRAY(0x48226dc)', 'HASH(0x482267c)') call
ed at C:/Program Files/VMware/VMware VI Perl Toolkit/Perl/lib/VMware/VIM2Stub.pm
line 26522
VimService::AnswerVM('VimService=HASH(0x36eed0c)', '_this', 'ManagedObje
ctReference=HASH(0x4bc6670)', 2, 1) called at C:/Program Files/VMware/VMware VI
Perl Toolkit/Perl/lib/VMware/VICommon.pm line 1011
ViewBase::invoke('VirtualMachine=HASH(0x4e2aa30)', 'AnswerVM', 2, 1) cal
led at C:/Program Files/VMware/VMware VI Perl Toolkit/Perl/lib/VMware/VIM2Runtim
e.pm line 1457
VirtualMachineOperations::AnswerVM('VirtualMachine=HASH(0x4e2aa30)', 2,
1) called at C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VI Perl Toolkit\Perl\apps\Test\R
eponse.pl line 99
main::reponse() called at C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VI Perl Toolkit
\Perl\apps\Test\Reponse.pl line 66

Thanks for help.

Console of vSphere Client in C#

k.malek — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:35:07 GMT

Hello all,

First of all, I apologize if this is the wrong forum, but it looked as the best out there to ask this question.

I tried to find a solution to my "problem" for quite a while now, but no luck.

So here it is....

I'm writing a custom C# windows forms application and I was wondering if it is possible to somehow open the vSphere Client's Console programmatically from within C# .

I'm using ESXi 4.

This application is just for an internal use in the company I work for, so just to clarify, I'm not trying to develop some commercial software.

In previous version of this app I used to open the entire client, but people who use it don't like to click all over the place to get to the console, hence my question.

I have looked into few APIs, but I either don't know which one to use or I couldn't find proper methods.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Chris

Java SDK samples will not build

tgiglia — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:01:18 GMT

Can anybody help?

I have set AXISHOME=c:\axis\axis-1_4, JAVAHOME=c:\Sun\SDK\jdk\bin, and WBEMHOME=c:\vsphere\SDK\samples\Axis\java as per readme_java.html. Then I try to build the samples using "build" (I have also tried "build -w"). This just generates hundreds of "cannot find symbol" errors for example:

C:\vsphere\SDK\samples\Axis\java\com\vmware\apputils\vim\ServiceUtil.java:308: c
annot find symbol
symbol : class ObjectContent
location: class com.vmware.apputils.vim.ServiceUtil
ObjectContent[] ocary =
^
C:\vsphere\SDK\samples\Axis\java\com\vmware\apputils\vim\ServiceUtil.java:331: c
annot find symbol
symbol : class ManagedObjectReference
location: class com.vmware.apputils.vim.ServiceUtil
ManagedObjectReference usecoll = collector;
^
C:\vsphere\SDK\samples\Axis\java\com\vmware\apputils\vim\ServiceUtil.java:335: c
annot find symbol
symbol : class ManagedObjectReference
location: class com.vmware.apputils.vim.ServiceUtil
ManagedObjectReference useroot = root;
^
C:\vsphere\SDK\samples\Axis\java\com\vmware\apputils\vim\ServiceUtil.java:339: c
annot find symbol
symbol : class SelectionSpec
location: class com.vmware.apputils.vim.ServiceUtil
SelectionSpec[] selectionSpecs = null;
^
C:\vsphere\SDK\samples\Axis\java\com\vmware\apputils\vim\ServiceUtil.java:343: c
annot find symbol
symbol : class PropertySpec
location: class com.vmware.apputils.vim.ServiceUtil
PropertySpec[] propspecary = buildPropertySpecArray(typeinfo);
^
C:\vsphere\SDK\samples\Axis\java\com\vmware\apputils\vim\ServiceUtil.java:344: c
annot find symbol
symbol : class PropertyFilterSpec
location: class com.vmware.apputils.vim.ServiceUtil
PropertyFilterSpec spec =
^
C:\vsphere\SDK\samples\Axis\java\com\vmware\apputils\vim\ServiceUtil.java:345: c
annot find symbol

vmregister.pl doesn't work

writetonikhil — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:39:59 GMT

Hi All,

I have just started exploring the VMware Perl toolkit and I find some intersting sample scripts in it. I am using vmregister.pl script to register a VM in one of my test ESX servers. But I get the following error

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VI Perl Toolkit\Perl\samples\vm>perl vmregister.pl --url https://10.75.121.133/sdk/webService --host "ps6484" --pool Flowers --vmxpath "Local DatastoreWindows XP Professional" --folder "Lotus" --username root --password xxxxxxxxx
Could not find virtual machine folder

End Disconnect

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VI Perl Toolkit\Perl\samples\vm>

If I don't give the --folder option I get a syntax error:

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VI Perl Toolkit\Perl\samples\vm>perl vmregister.pl --url https://10.75.121.133/sdk/webService --host "ps6484" --pool Flowers --vmxpath "Local DatastoreWindows XP Professional" --username root --password xxxxxxx
Filtering is only supported for Simple Types at vmregister.pl line 71

End Disconnect

C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware VI Perl Toolkit\Perl\samples\vm>

Am I missing anything? Is the 'Folder' option essential? I can't find a good documentation for vmregister.pl. The available documentation seems to be insufficient.

how to know if session cookie expired for retrieveProperties()

mm6 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:55:57 GMT

retrieveProperties() seems to return null if nothing matches or if the session cookie you send has expired. Other calls such as findByInventoryPath() return a SOAP fault if the session has expired.

How do I tell if the cookie is bad or the property filter spec returned no matches? I'm using this for getting tasks which often there are none of. I'd prefer not to do another call each time to check the session if there is another way.

VA deployment degradation on vSphere4

Lexus16 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:03:10 GMT

Hello,

We have high performance degradation when our Appliance is deployed to ESX server via Virtual Center. When the appliance is deployed to ESX directly we don’t have such problem.
We are using the following script:

curl -u username:NfelMC2Ub -k -T upload https://10.250.148.27/folder/LR1_11133_ESXAppliance/upload.dat?dcPath=Center&dsName=Storage1

where 10.250.148.27 is the address of Virtual Center. If we specify the address of ESX instead of Virtual Center, everything works fast.
BTW such problem appeared on vSphere 4, on previous versions everything was fine.
Could you please answer:

What could be the reason of this degradation?
How can we tune up the speed of deployment via Virtual Center?
If we have correct credentials on Virtual Center, is it possible to deploy directly to the ESX registered on it?

Thank you

VI SDK 2.5 Events and Tasks

svohra — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:03:06 GMT

I am looking for new Tasks and Events that are available in vSphere 4.0 and ESX 4.0 and were not available in earlier version of ESX and vCenter/VirtualCenter. I am using VI SDK to fetch the events and tasks from Virtual Center/ESX.

Is there a list of tasks and events for each version of ESX and Virtual Center. Alternatively is there a way to get this information from VI SDK API?

Appreciate and details or pointers on this.

Thanks
Satish

create linked-clones (delta-disks) via vmware API's?

cbyvmwr — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:03:59 GMT

Is it possible to create linked-clones (delta-disks) via vmware API's (either via Virtual Center or ESX?) Any insight or assistance would be greatly appreciated.

List current tasks and its progress (percent) for a selected VM

asp24 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:57:35 GMT

I'm looking for a way to list current tasks and its progress (percent) for a selected VM (with Perl). I can't find an example script for this. Maybe some of you can point me in the right direction..? Examples?

c# code needed to list plugins in extension manager!

rickyelqasem — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:44:16 GMT

Can anyone help me I need code to list the plugins listed in the extension manager. I know how register plugins but I now need code to list them and unregister.

Ricky El-Qasem

VCI/VCP - MCSE - RHCT

"certificate is required" or terrible exception

DannyUtro — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:37:57 GMT

Hello everybody!

Sorry for my english. I get stuck with error while running .NET sample "CIMInfo" - "A certificate is required to complete client authentication" at this line code:

"IWSManEnumerator enumeratorFans = (IWSManEnumerator)
session.Enumerate(urlString,
null, null, wsman.SessionFlagUseBasic() &
wsman.SessionFlagCredUsernamePassword() & wsman.SessionFlagSkipCACheck() & wsman.SessionFlagSkipCNCheck());"

How to install this certificate? I try to install via IE over https://my-esx, but it doesn't installing at "Trusted Root certification Authorities". Any tricks?

Thanks in advance.

LVM.EnableResignature for ESX 4.0

Ashwin89 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:29:00 GMT

Hello,

For ESX 4.0 I am not able to see this option lvm.enableresignature.

I want to make my snap visible to ESX server (4.0) through API.

fOR older version it works fine.

Any help?

-AsHwIN

ExtendVirtualDisk returns with FileFault

tobiasvdk — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:49:42 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to expand a virtual disk after connecting to a ESX host. But the function ExtendVirtualDisk returns with

SOAP Fault:

Fault string: General fault caused by file.
One of the parameters supplied is invalid
Fault detail: FileFault
End Disconnect

Using the function QueryVirtualDiskUuid return the right uuid of the virtual machine. So I think $datastore_path and $datastore are correct. $size is user input and also correct if I print the value of the variable.

Here is some of the code:

# get the virtual machine
my $vm_views = Vim::find_entity_views( view_type => 'VirtualMachine', filter => { 'config.name' => $vm_name } );
my $vm_view = shift( @$vm_views );

# get datastore details
my $datastore_path = $vm_view->{ layout }->{ disk }[0]->{ diskFile }[0];
my $vm_datastore = $vm_view->{ datastore }[0];

# get datacenter
my $datacenters = Vim::find_entity_views( view_type => 'Datacenter' );
my $datacenter = undef;
my $tmp_datacenter = undef;
foreach $tmp_datacenter ( @$datacenters ) { 
    my $datastores = $tmp_datacenter->{ datastore };
    my $tmp_datastore = undef;
    foreach $tmp_datastore ( @$datastores ) { 
        if ( $vm_datastore->{ value } eq $tmp_datastore->{ value } ) { 
            $datacenter = $tmp_datacenter;
        }
    }
}


my $vd_mgr = VIExt::get_virtual_disk_manager(); 

# this correctly returns the uuid
my $disk_uuid = $vd_mgr->QueryVirtualDiskUuid( name => $datastore_path, datacenter => $datacenter );
print( 'disk uuid: ' . Dumper( $disk_uuid ) ); 

# this returns with an error
my $task = $vd_mgr->ExtendVirtualDisk( name => $datastore_path, datacenter =>  $datacenter,  newCapacityKb => $size );
print( 'task: ' . Dumper( $task ) );

Thanks for help in advance.

By Tobias

SSL Certificate

palletjackracer — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:58:33 GMT

Hi All,

Was wondering if someone could help me.

I have an ESX4 server running and was trying to updated the SSL Certificates on it.

Here's what I've already done:

Received back my cert from the CA and replaced /etc/vmware/ssl/rui.crt with the new one.

At this point I thought the chain bundle cert would go in the same directory (/etc/vmware/ssl/) but when I did that it didn't work.

I've read through this doc (http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi_vcserver_certificates.pdf) but it doesn't seem to address this directly. The bottom of page 4 talks a bit about this but doesn't name any directories or file names for which I would think we would need to know in order to replace the old with the new.

The other portion of this which has been frustrating is not knowing what type of webserver is turned on by default. (netstat -anp doesn't display the program which is listening on port 80 and wireshark reports back the server type as "Golfe")

If anyone could focus my attention in the right direction I'd sure appreciate it.

Blessings,

Jason

Error with disk when creating a VM

daniellynn — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:22:34 GMT

I'm programmatically creating a new VM. When I do, I get this error:

VMware ESX cannot open the virtual disk, "/vmfs/volumes/4a721a68-0d1c4a-
bf-cea3-001ec9b7d003/78698-160/78698-160.vmdk" for clustering.
Please verify that the virtual disk was created using the
'thick' option.

Cannot open the disk '/vmfs/volumes/4a721a68-0d1c4-
4abf-cea3-001ec9b7d003/78698-160/78698-160.vmdk' or one of
the snapshot disks it depends on. Reason: Thin/TBZ disks
cannot be opened in multiwriter mode..

In the code, I set it to not use thin provisioning and not to lazyzero, but I still get the error. I put the coede below. Any ideas why that error occurs?

// Create a new disk - file based - for the vm

String volumeName = "util01";

VirtualDeviceConfigSpec diskSpec = new VirtualDeviceConfigSpec();

diskSpec.fileOperation = VirtualDeviceConfigSpecFileOperation.create;

diskSpec.fileOperationSpecified = true;

diskSpec.operation = VirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation.add;

diskSpec.operationSpecified = true;

VirtualDisk disk = new VirtualDisk();

VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo diskfileBacking = new VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo();

diskfileBacking.fileName = volumeName;

diskfileBacking.diskMode = "persistent";

diskfileBacking.eagerlyScrub = true;

diskfileBacking.thinProvisioned = false;

diskfileBacking.thinProvisionedSpecified = true;

disk.key = 0;

disk.controllerKey = diskCtlrKey;

disk.unitNumber = 0;

disk.backing = diskfileBacking;

disk.capacityInKB = 8092;

disk.controllerKeySpecified = true;

disk.unitNumberSpecified = true;

diskSpec.device = disk;

Introducing the VI 2.5 Client Plugin - SVMotion

akutz — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:51:13 GMT

SVMotion is a VI 2.5 client plugin (the FIRST released, third-party plugin in fact) that extends the client's functionality by providing an integrated, graphical tool that can be used to invoke storage VMotion (SVMotion) operations. This plugin is not supported by VMware. In fact, the plugin is not anywhere close to supported by VMware because it is the result of a two-week dive into the inner-workings of the VI client libraries with popular reflection tools (reverse-engineering). l o s t c r e a t i o n s is working on a white paper that describes how to build VI plugins.

Read more about SVMotion and download it here http://www.lostcreations.com/code/wiki/vmware/viplugins/svmotion.

Example on usage of TaskHistoryCollector using ZSI and Python

rpapiset — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:45:17 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to use pyton with ZSI to retreive task using taskhistorycollector. Can some one post if you have any example using Python and ZSI with filter.

Appreciate your help.

Thanks,

Ravi Kumar P.

VMware Coffee Talk - October 7th Wed 9:00 AM PST - vSphere APIs for Performance Monitoring

heyitspablo — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:49:32 GMT

Session Title: vSphere APIs for Perfomance Monitoring
Session Abstract:
Understand the features available to developers via vSphere Web Services APIs to
collect performance statistics and discuss best practices in collecting performance
data when using these APIs. This presentation is a must-attend for any developer
that retrieves performance information from the vSphere platform in any large environment.
While the content is advanced, developers new to the platform will find it useful.
Web Ex Link
MP3 Link
Level: Advanced
Speakers:
Ravi Soundararajan
Staff Engineer Performance Team
Balaji Parimi
Ecosytem Engineering
Message was edited by: heyitspablo - Added Web Ex Link

Deployment of Virtual Machines over SDK 2.5 doesn't work after upgrade to ESX 4

michael.ronge — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:48:25 GMT

Hi,

I have developed a small framework based on the C# SDK 2.5 that deploys (creates) virtual machines with appropriate settings. All worked fine, even after update of vCenter from 2.5 to 4.0.

Then I updated the first ESX servers and got sometimes an error message "illegal configuration for device '7'". I did not take it serious, because in the second attempt it always worked. But after I updated the whole farm, I get the error message every time the framework attempts to deploy a VM.

The only change made was the update from ESX 3.5 to 4.0.

Device '7' is the hard disk, and when I change the code to leave out the hard disk, the deployments work as expected. The only thing I have to do is to add the hard disk manually after deployment.

What I'd like to know is what VMware changed so that the deployment doesn't work any longer under ESX 4.0, and what I have to change so that it works again.

I tried to open a support call, but was sent here. So this is the only place to ask for me. I have added the code below. There is one thing in that the SDK required: leaving out the blank between the datastore alias closing bracket and the path.

private VimApi.VirtualDeviceConfigSpec CreateDisk(string DatastoreName,
string MachineName, int GB_Capacity, int Controller, int Key, int UnitNumber)
{
VimApi.VirtualDeviceConfigSpec spec = new VimApi.VirtualDeviceConfigSpec();
VimApi.VirtualDisk dev = new VimApi.VirtualDisk();
VimApi.VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo bi = new VimApi.VirtualDiskFlatVer2BackingInfo();
bi.diskMode = "persistent";
bi.fileName = string.Format("[{0]{1}/{1}_{2}.vmdk", DatastoreName, MachineName, UnitNumber).Replace("_0.vmdk", ".vmdk");
bi.thinProvisioned = true;
bi.thinProvisionedSpecified = true;
bi.split = false;
bi.splitSpecified = true;
dev.backing = bi;
dev.capacityInKB = GB_Capacity * 1024 * 1024;
dev.key = Key;
dev.controllerKey = Controller;
dev.controllerKeySpecified = true;
dev.unitNumber = UnitNumber;
dev.unitNumberSpecified = true;
spec.device = dev;
spec.fileOperation = VimApi.VirtualDeviceConfigSpecFileOperation.create;
spec.fileOperationSpecified = true;
spec.operation = VimApi.VirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation.add;
spec.operationSpecified = true;
return spec;
}

Creating multiple clones at a time

ChaitanyaS — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:13:33 GMT

Hi,

I want to prepare number of virtual machines (i.e. clones or images) from the golden image.

I'm developing my own UI from where I'll be selecting one of the existing golden images. I'll mention a number of clones which i need. When i click on the button, i'll be invoking appropriate vSphere web services API to create clones.

Can anyone tell me what I'm trying to achieve is feasible or not? Can we create multiple clones at a time ? And that too using web services?

CustomFieldsManager object not working

brrSCO — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:58:36 GMT

I have setup Custom Values for VM guests using the VC Client GUI. I am using the VI Perl Toolkit to try to retrieve those values in code. I have found code snippets that describe how to do this but mine fail. I have traced the line that is failing and it appears my CustomFieldsManager is not working at all in VI. When I run the following short bit of code from a Perl script:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Getopt::Long;
use VMware::VIRuntime;

my $username = "username";
my $password = "password";
my $service_url = "https://servername/sdk/vimService";

Vim::login(service_url => $service_url, user_name => $username, password => $password);

my $csi_view;
my $si_moref = ManagedObjectReference->new(type => 'ServiceInstance',value=>'ServiceInstance');
my $si_view = Vim::get_view(mo_ref => $si_moref);
my $sc_view = $si_view->RetrieveServiceContent();
my $cfm_view = Vim::get_view(mo_ref => $sc_view->customFieldsManager);

The last line is causing the error below:

Can't call method "type" on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl/5.8/VMware/VICommon.pm line 828.

When I look in my MOB for this ESX Host, and RetrieveServiceContent, the CustomFieldsManager object shows "Unset" next to it, even though I have Custom Fields created and filled in for the VM's on this host. How do I use this CustomFields functionality from the VI Perl toolkit?

Failed : fault.RestrictedVersion.summary

saff — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:20:57 GMT

The command: vicfg-snmp --server <ESX_IP_Address> --username root --password <password> -c <community_name> -t <Trap Destination>@162/<community_name>

Error: "Failed : fault.RestrictedVersion.summary"

Above is giving me problems, when I try to start "snmp" on Esxi 4.0 free version, as suggested in this link http://communities.vmware.com/thread/151296 I might have a faulty or wrong license in order to get this to work.

Ive been trying to get an answer from VM-Ware about if I actually lack the proper license for the use of snmp on a free version or if infact it can have something to do with the fact that I installed with the Dell customized version of free esxi 4.0

I was given a license key for the free installation when I downloaded ESXI and I have put that key into the server as follows

Product: ESXi 4 Single Server Licensed for 2 physical CPUs (1-6 cores per CPU)
License Key: XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
Expires: Never

Product Features:
Up to 256 GB of memory
Up to 4-way virtual SMP

Can someone give me an answer to this?

1. Is it possible to start up SNMP on ESXI 4.0 free version using "VMware vSphere CLI"?

2. Do I need a different license for this?

Best regards

//Bobo

Before I venture into the unknown...

bobg2007 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:42:15 GMT

Hi guys,

Before I venture into the unknown with the Vpshere SDK for .Net. Can somebody tell me if I can do the following with the SDK for C#?

Create or clone a VM - I believe this can be done from looking at the samples.

Configure the following on a VM

- Hostname

- IP address

- CPU's assigned to it

- memory asssigned to it

- disk space

Also am I able to reference all of the methods I could refernce from the power CLI?

cheers.

Thanks in advance for looking at my question.

listing of folders and its respective vms

ktemplar — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:14:09 GMT

Hi,

I am new at the programming site of VI3. Now I need your help!

How can I realize the relationship between folders and virtual machines, to get a list of folders and vms is no problem. But I need a list of all vms in its respective folders.

It should be looks like that:

Folder1:
vm1,vm3,vm5,...

Folder2:
vm2,vm4,vm6,...

I am waiting for your suggestions. Thanks.

Gathering details of all DataStores

ChaitanyaS — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:07:10 GMT

hi,

Is it possible to gather details of all the datastores using web services?

In my client application. i want to keep details of all available data stores in my database.

Can one virtula machine use many disks? ( As per my knowledge, one disk can be shared by multiple virtual machines., Am i right?)

(I've referred to DataStore managed object from the documentation. What i understand is data store is independent of hosts (ESX servers) and the virtual machines. Many hosts can connect to one data store. Similarly one data store can have many virtual disks i.e. virtual machines. )

vSphere/vCenter client and the web services

ChaitanyaS — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:53:06 GMT

Hi,

Does vSphere client (or vCenter client earlier) invoke the vSphere web services internally to perform any operations on the ESX server?

I'm novice to VMware developemnt.

What i understand is vSphere or vCenter client is a management console. An actioan/operations like creating VM or cloning images actually happen on the ESX servers or hosts. Web services are hosted on the ESX servers. When we perform an action through vSphere/vCenter client (e.g. create virtual machine), internally it would be invoking appropriate API provided by the web service SDKto do the needful.

Is my understanding correct?

How to Fetch Events with some offset

Deepak00 — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:32:12 GMT

I want to write a program which periodically pulls login/logout events from ESX/VC. Looking at the APIs in VI SDK 2.0.1 for fetching events, it seems there is no direct way to pull events from the middle of the list present at ESX (i.e. give a direct offset to retrieve 100 events starting with key 5001).

To explain this with an example: if i have pulled say 5000 events and i sleep for 1 day and next day another 1400 events are generated, now i want to pull only the new events starting at 5001. The way out is to traverse page wise from start and keep pulling until i hit the event with key which i have already pulled.

The problem arises in the above traversal when my program goes down without retrieving all the events. Now i have holes in my event list, which needs to be fixed somehow. Although this can be fixed but is un-intutive.

Is there any other easier way to directly set my page to start with event 5001 and then keep moving to next page until i am able to retrieve all events ?

How to edit VM Image settings using VI SDK 4

newsharon86 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:28:45 GMT

All

I just wanted to know how to edit VM Image setting using VI SDK 4

Vm Image Setting could be(memory setting etc)

API to turn on Fault Tolerance

Bramha — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:42:40 GMT

For my BR application I need to Turn Off FT to be able to take a VM Snapshot . I found API TurnOffFaultToleranceForVM_Task to turn off FT for a VM. But I dont see any API to turn it on back again. Why isn't there an API to turn FT on ?. Is there some way I can do this ?

Thanks,

Parag

ReconfigVM not working for Multiple Disks

Bramha — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:34:56 GMT

Hi, I am trying to add multiple RDM disks to a VM . My vmConfigSpec has a list of VirtualDevice ConfigSpecs added to it , one for each disk. When I call Reconfig_VM I get "operation failed because file already exists" and the path of the last VMDK file

Any information would be very helpful

Thanks,

Parag

Here is the code that is called in a loop

String datastorePath = "" + " " + vmName + "/";
String rdmFilePath = datastorePath + vmName + "" + "SMVI1" + getPath(lunName).replace('/', '_') + "_1" + ".vmdk"; // instead of the _1 put lunId

VirtualDiskRawDiskMappingVer1BackingInfo backingInfo = new VirtualDiskRawDiskMappingVer1BackingInfo();
backingInfo.setCompatibilityMode("physicalMode");
backingInfo.setDeviceName(deviceName);
backingInfo.setFileName(rdmFilePath);
backingInfo.setDiskMode("");
backingInfo.setLunUuid(lunUUID);

VirtualDisk disk = new VirtualDisk();
disk.setCapacityInKB(lunsizeInKB);
disk.setBacking(backingInfo);
disk.setConnectable(new VirtualDeviceConnectInfo());
disk.getConnectable().setAllowGuestControl(false);
disk.getConnectable().setConnected(true);
disk.getConnectable().setStartConnected(true);
disk.setControllerKey(new Integer(un.getKey()));
disk.setKey(new Integer(-1));
disk.setUnitNumber(new Integer(un.getValue()));

VirtualDeviceConfigSpec vdCfgSpec = new VirtualDeviceConfigSpec();
vdCfgSpec.setOperation(VirtualDeviceConfigSpecOperation.ADD);
vdCfgSpec.setFileOperation(VirtualDeviceConfigSpecFileOperation.CREATE);
vdCfgSpec.setDevice(disk);
//VirtualDeviceConfigSpec [] vdCfgSpecList = {vdCfgSpec};
vmConfigSpec.getDeviceChange().add(vdCfgSpec);

After adding multiple vdCfgSpec to my vmConfigSpec I call reconfigVMTask

ManagedObjectReference taskMOR = null;
try {
taskMOR = client.getPort().reconfigVMTask(vmMOR.reference(), vmConfigSpec);
}
catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}

powerpath version from the vsphere ws sdk

venkat70 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:30:44 GMT

Is there a way to get the powerpath version that's installed in ESX through SDK? I tried to look for it under plugstoretopology. but i couldn't find anything.

Also, doesn't SDK expose pseudodevice names generated by powerpath?

thanks

venkat

creating RDM

karthimin — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:00:03 GMT

Hi all,

any one help me i am facing an issue while creating rdm. i pasted code below please look into the code and tell me where i'm doing mistake.

here i'm unable to create an RDM.

For creating RDM we need to do the following:

Create the VirtualDeviceConfigSpec and set its properties.
Create VirtualMachineConfigSpec object and set the VirtualDeviceConfigSpec to the device change property of VirtualMachineConfigSpec object.
3. Call the ReconfigVM_Task.

If I follow the process 1 specified below getting the error "Incompatible device backing specified for device 0 " as it is unable to create the vmdk file with the path specified in

backingInfo->fileName. If I specify backingInfo->fileName="datastorename" then it is creating Virtual Disk with unknown size which is not RDM.

But if I follow the process 2 , first create vmdk file and then specify this file in backingInfo->fileName, its working fine.

But the problem is it works only in case of ESXServer not Virtual Center because for creating VirtualDisk_Task, it takes VirtualDiskManager as

Parameter which is not set in case of Virtual Center.

So we are unable to understand why it is failing to create the RDM in process 1.

I am also enclosing the link where the guy is able to create RDM using Process 1.

Link : http://communities.vmware.com/thread/38923;jsessionid=14172672B2B1D99EBB70617BD6066CE5?tstart=15

We came to know how to set the values for the following properties also

backingInfo->lunUuid

vdCfgSpec->device->unitNumber

vdCfgSpec->device->controllerKey

I also tried setting the below property in process 1 but no use

vdCfgSpec ->fileOperation = VirtualDeviceConfigSpecFileOperation::create;

vdCfgSpec ->fileOperationSpecified = true;

I am still working on this, but if you find any solution on process 1, please let me know.

findByDatastorePath call never returns

venkat70 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:04:11 GMT

when i use a credential which doesn't have access to datastores and make the above call, it never returns. is this a known issue?

i used jstack to see which threads are waiting and i see the thread is waiting on this call. should i first check whether datastores are available using this credential before making the call?

thanks

venkat

java.lang.Thread.State: WAITING (on object monitor)
at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
- waiting on <0xe0d305f8> (a org.apache.commons.httpclient.MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager$ConnectionPool)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager.doGetConnection(MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager.java:518)
- locked <0xe0d305f8> (a org.apache.commons.httpclient.MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager$ConnectionPool)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager.getConnectionWithTimeout(MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager.java:416)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeMethod(HttpMethodDirector.java:153)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:397)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:346)
at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AbstractHTTPSender.executeMethod(AbstractHTTPSender.java:542)
at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPSender.sendViaPost(HTTPSender.java:189)
at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPSender.send(HTTPSender.java:75)
at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.CommonsHTTPTransportSender.writeMessageWithCommons(CommonsHTTPTransportSender.java:371)
at org.apache.axis2.transport.http.CommonsHTTPTransportSender.invoke(CommonsHTTPTransportSender.java:209)
at org.apache.axis2.engine.AxisEngine.send(AxisEngine.java:448)
at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.send(OutInAxisOperation.java:401)
at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.executeImpl(OutInAxisOperation.java:228)
at org.apache.axis2.client.OperationClient.execute(OperationClient.java:163)
at com.vmware.ws.service.SearchIndexServiceStub.FindByDatastorePath(SearchIndexServiceStub.java:686)
at com.vmware.vi.SearchIndexImpl.findByDatastorePath(SearchIndexImpl.java:56)

vi sdk 2.5 and windows communication foundation

dgxhubbard — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:06:46 GMT

Has anyone tried creating a wcf proxy using vi sdk 2.0 or 2.5?

I wanted to find out what their expirience was?

Also i was not sure if this is the right forum to post to.

Any help would be appreciated

WCF client?

aivanoff — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:10:12 GMT

Is it possible to create WCF client for VI SDK 4.0? Has anyone tried it?

how I can know the version of a host server or a virtual center (ESX server 4.0 or vCenter server 4.0 or lower version) through API

tqll — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:39:44 GMT

Hi,

I need use some APIs which are "*Since *vSphere API 4.0". For example VirtualMachineFileLayoutEx. When I connect to a ESX server and vCenter 4.0, everything is fine. But once I connected a lower version (such as ESX server 3.x) and try to use the API, then an error message, RuntimeException would be gotten and it caused by invalidProperty(com.vmware.vim25.InvalidProperty)

That is make sense. My Question is how I can know the version of a host server or a virtual center (4.0 or lower) through API and then I could avoid the error exception popped up

Other, whether a virtual Center could include ESX server 4.0 and other lower version ESX server at the same time?

Thank you

Developing a Mac OS X and/ or iPhone native application using xcode

cookieme — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:17:21 GMT

Hi

I'm not a programmer, but I'm curious about the procedure for developing a native Mac OS X and/ or iPhone native application using Apple's developer tools (xcode). Is this possible and what VMware development tools are required as I see that there is both a web services sdk and a perl sdk?

If anyone has any experience of developing for the Mac/ iPhone platforms with regards to VMware vSphere I would be very interested in any pointers.

Thanks

P.S. Please move this post if I've posted in the wrong developer community.

can't connect virtual nic to distributed virtual port group

mm6 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:59:31 GMT

I'm trying to connect a virtual nic on a vm to a distributed virtual port group. I have tried every set of options to the nic config spec I can think of.

For any VM I create using the API, in vSphere Client when you right click the VM, edit settings, select the network adapter, the network label dropdown is set to empty. When I pick the correct network from the dropdown the nic in the VM works.

The sample code seems to say that all you need to do is setDeviceName on the nic backing to one of the names in the network label dropdown in vSphere client.

Have tried:

backing.setNetwork to a reference to the network

using VirtualEthernetCardDistrbibutedVirtualPortBackingInfo instead of VirtualEthernetCardNetworkBackingInfo

using nic.setDeviceInfo() and setting label and summary to the name of the network

I just need to know what to set to populate this dropdown so the nic works without manually setting the network label in the gui.

Re: Help Virtual Center + C# begginer

ghosther — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:05:39 GMT

thanks for your answer...

I'm currently have another problems... but, this question has been answered.

Regards.

how to get all the datastores in VC inventory?

tqll — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:15:30 GMT

how to get all the datastores in VC inventory.

I use vi java API as following

String[] s1 = {"+VirtualMachine"+};

String[] s2 = {"+HostSystem"+};

String[] s3 = {"Datastore"};

String[]http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=%5D%5B] sArray = new String[http://communities.vmware.com/community-document-picker.jspa?communityID=&subject=%5D%5B { s1, s2, s3 };

//Array of Managed Entities

ManagedEntity[] me = new InventoryNavigator(mm.getConVmware().getRootFolder()).searchManagedEntities(sArray, *true*);

But it only returns ManagedEntity about HostSystem and vm. There isn't any datastore ManagedEntity in the inventory.

Thank you

error trying to retreive extensionlist

rickyelqasem — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:36:46 GMT

I'm try to retreive in c# the extsionlist where the plugins reside and failing. Can you help me? Here is s copy of my code:

_service = new VimService();
_service.Url = url;
_svcRef = new ManagedObjectReference();
_svcRef.type = "ServiceInstance";
_svcRef.Value = "ServiceInstance";
_service.CookieContainer = new System.Net.CookieContainer();
CreateServiceRef("ServiceInstance");
_sic = _service.RetrieveServiceContent(_svcRef);
_propCol = _sic.propertyCollector;
_rootFolder = _sic.rootFolder;

String userName = userTextBox.Text;
String password = passTextBox.Text;

if (_sic.sessionManager != null)
{
_service.Login(_sic.sessionManager, userName, password, null);
ManagedObjectReference extMOREF = _sic.extensionManager;

PropertySpec pSpec = new PropertySpec();
pSpec.type = "extensionList";
pSpec.all = true;
// pSpec.all = false;
//pSpec.pathSet = new string[] { "extensionList" };
ObjectSpec oSpec = new ObjectSpec();
oSpec.obj = _sic.extensionManager;

PropertyFilterSpec pfSpec = new PropertyFilterSpec();
pfSpec.propSet = new PropertySpec[] { pSpec };
pfSpec.objectSet = new ObjectSpec[] { oSpec };

ObjectContenthttp:// ocary = _service.RetrieveProperties(_propCol, new PropertyFilterSpechttp://] ocary = _service.RetrieveProperties(_propCol, new PropertyFilterSpec[ { pfSpec });

Ricky El-Qasem

VCI/VCP - MCSE - RHCT

someone can help me with this exception?

ghosther — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:13:42 GMT

I'm trying to use the web service sdk, and compile a simple proyect that just connect to Virtual Center.

But i have a server not found exeption.

someone can help my if the url i'm using is wrong... https://myhost:8443/

I'm trying to use this sdk since one week ago, and nothing..

Regards.

datastore and LUN mapping

Ashwin89 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:08:28 GMT

How I will get the mapping between datastore and LUN?

Suppose I am having net app filer which is connected to datastore then how should get this mapping?

same with iscsi mapping on net app filer?

from vi sdk how i will able to get all the information about LUN?Host?

-AshWin

Help Virtual Center + C# begginer

ghosther — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:52:23 GMT

Please somebody...

Could you tell me all requeriments for develop a C# application that execute the following usin Virtual Center:

Power On a Vm

Power Off

Get Performace Status(like web admin in ESX Server)

i need to know all the software that i may install on my pc...

i have installed:

Visual Studio(off corse)

Esx server 2.0

And nothing else...

please could you give me the rest of the list, and the url??

and a sample application code.

Regards.

rename a portgroup

fordian — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:04:07 GMT

Hello,

I want to rename a portgroup without changing portgroup policies. With the code I wrote, the portgroup is rename but if the portgroup policies are different from vSwitch policies the portgroup is reset to the vswitch policies. Is there a simple way to save portgroup policies or a better way to rename portgroup ?

Thank you

Dominic

Sample code :

my $newName = $nameOpt;
my $pgName = $pgOpt;
my $indic = 0;

my $hostviews = Vim::find_entity_views(view_type => 'HostSystem');

if ($hostviews) {
foreach (@$hostviews) {
my $hostview = $_;
my $netview = Vim::get_view (mo_ref => $hostview->configManager->networkSystem);

foreach my $portgroup (@{$netview->networkConfig->portgroup}) {
if ($portgroup->spec->name eq $pgName) {

$indic = 1;

my $vSwitch = $portgroup->spec->vswitchName;
my $vlanId = $portgroup->spec->vlanId;

my $hostNetPolicy = new HostNetworkPolicy();

my $hostPGSpec = new HostPortGroupSpec (name => $newName,
policy => $hostNetPolicy,
vlanId => $vlanId,
vswitchName => $vSwitch);

eval {$netview->UpdatePortGroup(pgName => $pgName, portgrp => $hostPGSpec); };

if ($@) {
print_screen('clear','red',$@->fault_string, '-> ' . $pgName);
#VIExt::fail($@->fault_string);
} else {
print_screen('clear','green','PortGroup has been renamed : ', $vSwitch . ' : ' . $pgName . ' -> ' . $newName);
}

.......................

update frequency for vm.summary.storage.committed

EmboticsSteve — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:14:27 GMT

Does anyone know what the update frequency is for the vm.summary.storage.committed (and related) properties? Some user-originated activities will cause this to update but does vSphere periodically update it as well?

getting the size for all the virtual machine files

Ashwin89 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:48:58 GMT

hello,

Is there any way in vsphere API to get the size of all the files like for (.vmx/.nvram/.log)?

I dont want to copy them on the box and check the size.

-AsHwIN

how can i get datastore earlier than hostSystem

tqll — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:37:00 GMT

I connet to a virtual center and need get datastore ealier than hostSystem, and then list all of the host associated this datasore.

VI SDK, powershell toolkit and getting AlarmState alarm ManagedEntity objects.

robmatrovemobile — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:19:20 GMT

So I use the VI Toolkit (for Windows) power shell in a c# app to give me a ManagedEntity and I want to loop over the triggered alarms to get alarm information, ie the alarm name and the managed entity that triggered the alarm. Using the following chunk of code...
foreach (AlarmState triggeredAlarm in myManagedEntity.TriggeredAlarmState) {
}
Gives me a VMware.Vim.AlarmState for all triggered alarms, which is great.

But how can I use the VI SDK to get the corresponding Alarm for the triggered alarm? I want that because the Alarm object contains vital info like the AlarmSpec.Name?

And the triggered alarm has a ManagedObjectReference Entity, how can I get the ManagedEntity object that corresponds to this Entity?

I guess my question is simply how to go from an ManagedObjectReference to a ManagedEntity?

I can use the VI Toolkit Get-View -Id... cmdlet to get this info, but it's too slow when I have many alarms