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6 Replies Last post: Aug 26, 2009 1:14 AM by paul_xtravirt

Desperate - trying to get information about datastores through web services posted: Aug 24, 2009 9:48 AM

paul_xtravirt

214 posts since
Feb 16, 2007

Hi all,

Can some one please help me I have spent hours today and am still stuck. I am trying to retrieve the datastores for a datacenter, with information about the datastores (for example, capacity and free space) and which hosts are connected to them. I am trying to do this in module1, in the datastores() sub. I have searched teh forums but have not found anything that really helps me out. Can someone please put me out of my misery? I have attached my code to this post.

Oh, this is in vb.net by the way using the latest vsphere SDK. I will award points

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vc_functions.rtf (12.0 K)
module1.rtf (7.6 K)

Tags: vb.net, vsphere, sdk, datastores

Re: Desperate - trying to get information about datastores through web services

1. Aug 24, 2009 1:04 PM

in response to: paul_xtravirt

Seemankij

261 posts since
Sep 30, 2007

You must iterate through the inventory to find out the datastores in a datacenter. Datacenter has a property "datastore" which list all the datastores associated with that datacenter. Please follow the attached Java sample for quick reference on how to retrieve the information. The attached sample uses vSphere SDK libraries.

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ListDatastore.java (3.2 K)

Re: Desperate - trying to get information about datastores through web services

2. Aug 24, 2009 1:09 PM

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paul_xtravirt

214 posts since
Feb 16, 2007

Hi,

Thanks for the reply, but I dont understand java - I know what I need to do but dont know how to construct it in visual basic. Can you provide a VB sample please?

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Re: Desperate - trying to get information about datastores through web services

3. Aug 24, 2009 2:03 PM

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lamw

3,492 posts since
Nov 27, 2007

Here is another sample using Perl listAllDatastoresInCluster.pl (sorry can't provide .vb example)

As mentioned, if you're able to get a reference to the cluster you're interested in, you'll be able to get a reference to list of the datastores the cluster can see and from that, you'll loop through the array and be able to get information regarding each datastore http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk25pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.ComputeResource.html

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Re: Desperate - trying to get information about datastores through web services

4. Aug 25, 2009 5:04 AM

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paul_xtravirt

214 posts since
Feb 16, 2007

Thanks lamw - still struggling over here. I cannot believe that there are not more people interested in the SDK that use VB.Net ??? We have the one great sample, but thats all. If someone had a vb.net sample on how to do this, then that pretty much gives a complete picture of what we need to get going under vb.net

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Re: Desperate - trying to get information about datastores through web services

5. Aug 25, 2009 4:50 PM

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heyitspablo

183 posts since
Feb 26, 2007

Folks - Let us know if there is interest for a Sample Code community dedicated to VB.NET ? Think it might be useful for folks using VB.NET but not sure level of interest from wider community.. ..

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Pablo

Re: Desperate - trying to get information about datastores through web services

6. Aug 26, 2009 1:14 AM

in response to: heyitspablo

paul_xtravirt

214 posts since
Feb 16, 2007

Well,

It gets my vote. There is already a single sample piece of code provided by Richard (http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/codecentral/vsphere_ws_vb?view=overview). It would be good to get some basic pieces of code in there. In the past people have complained about a lack of support for vb.net, although I know that others (Mr Sloof!) do use it. Even if some other basic examples were provided that would be a great start for people. Examples such as:

1. obtain datastore information

2. obtain networking configuration for hosts and guests

I would certainly place code snippets up there for other people once I know what I am doing