You'll need to write an action or workflow that takes a string input, searches your VC for the VM(s) with the correct name or id that matches that input string. Once you have found the VirtualMachine object, you can then pass that as an input to your other workflows that require a VMware3:VirtualMachine object as an input.

Hi,

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Been a little caught up. Please see the attached package for over 10 different actions in getting VMs. You have things from get VM by host, get VM by OS, get all windows VMs, get all VMs in a folder, etc. The most useful one that is likely to match what you are looking for is "get VMs by regex". You should be able to use them in workflows directly without issues.

These actions will be included in a coming release by default. One caviat: I see in your example you are looking for VMware3:VirtualMachine. These actions are written for vSphere4 which is in the "VC" name space. But I assume you know how to change that?

Let me know if these work out for you (of course, let me know if they don't work out either

Sia