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How to get the summary information (like the os, memory, etc) of a VM on the ESX using the visdk4.0? posted: Jul 26, 2009 6:40 PM

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dikang85
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Jul 26, 2009

As per subject.

And I will appreciate it if you can supply some sample code to me.

Thanks

Dikang

Re: How to get the summary information (like the os, memory, etc) of a VM on the ESX using the visdk4.0?

1. Jul 26, 2009 7:20 PM in response to: dikang85
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lamw
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Nov 27, 2007
If you're looking to utilize the vSphere SDK, you won't be extracting this information from within the ESX Service Console, you'll be remotely connecting from either a Linux/Windows system and called from variety of languages (Powershell,Perl,C#, Java, etc.)

If you want to extract this using the Perl bindings (vSphere SDK for Perl), take a look at this vSphere health report which extracts this information: VMware vSphere Health Check Report v1.3

You'll be able to find the majority of VM information using these two sections:
http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.vm.Summary.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.vm.GuestInfo.html


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Re: How to get the summary information (like the os, memory, etc) of a VM on the ESX using the visdk4.0?

2. Jul 26, 2009 7:41 PM in response to: lamw
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dikang85
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Jul 26, 2009

Hi William,

Thank you very much for your help! And do you know where can i find the related java sample code using the vSphere SDK? (I have downloaded the visdk4.0, but have not found any helpful code yet)

Thank you again!

Dikang

Re: How to get the summary information (like the os, memory, etc) of a VM on the ESX using the visdk4.0?

3. Jul 26, 2009 11:05 PM in response to: dikang85
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lamw
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Take a look at: vSphere SDK for Java and http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/DeveloperCenter/2009/07/17/introduction-to-the-vsphere-sdk-vi-sdk-in-java-and-c which has plenty of samples from the vSphere SDK for Java

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Re: How to get the summary information (like the os, memory, etc) of a VM on the ESX using the visdk4.0?

4. Jul 26, 2009 11:12 PM in response to: dikang85
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arpitmpatel13
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Oct 31, 2007

Hi,

You can also check samples.jar file, which contains number of sample programs for sdk4.

It is located in sdk/samples/Axis/Java directory.

Thanks

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