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5 Replies Last post: Oct 12, 2009 5:55 AM by gpanki

How to retrieve DataStore Path posted: Jun 2, 2009 8:11 AM

vemwhere

6 posts since
Jun 2, 2009

I'm writing a perl script using Labmanager SOAP API to deploy multiple configs in Labmanger. After deploying the Config/VM, I would like to interact with the VMs in each config. To do this I am using the VIX Perl API. My issue is that I need to know the datastore path of each VM as soon as it is deployed so that VIX commands can be ran on it.

The script is multi-threaded. Each thread represents one configuration with one vm.

I know how to list all the datastores for all registered VMs. The VM name is not unique so I cannot parse this list for that. Does anyone know a way to reliably get the datastore path for a VM knowing either the MachineId or ConfigID/MachineID combo? Ideall I would be able to do sometype of search for the ID that will yield the datastore path.

I'm open to VI Toolkit, VIX or anything else out there that will allow me to get this info (preferably using Perl).

Thanks.

Tags: datastore, path, vix, deploy, guest

Re: How to retrieve DataStore Path

1. Jun 2, 2009 8:39 AM

in response to: vemwhere

cschmidt

20 posts since
Sep 11, 2006

so are you trying to get the path on the datastore to a particular VM's .vmx file? which you'd then hand over to a call in the VIX Api? Am i reading that correctly?

Re: How to retrieve DataStore Path

2. Jun 2, 2009 8:47 AM

in response to: cschmidt

vemwhere

6 posts since
Jun 2, 2009

That is correct. I am trying to get the datastorepath in the form of '[Datastorpath] path/to/vm.vmx ' so that I can use that in VIX api calls.

Re: How to retrieve DataStore Path

3. Jun 2, 2009 9:00 AM

in response to: vemwhere

cschmidt

20 posts since
Sep 11, 2006

I think this might be what your looking for:

LabManagerInternal.GetConsoleAccessInfo Method
C#
WebMethod()

public MKSConsoleInfo GetConsoleAccessInfo(
int machineId
);
Parameters
machineId

It will return an object type called MKSConsoleInfo which contains a value VmxLocation. When I tried it through soapUI it gave me a valid path to the vmx file of the machine_id i passed it

Re: How to retrieve DataStore Path

4. Jun 2, 2009 9:27 AM

in response to: cschmidt

vemwhere

6 posts since
Jun 2, 2009

It works! I tested and was able to retrieve the data that I was looking for (not in the format that I needed but that's easily solved with a little data manipulation). Thanks!