Problem vmreconfig.pl

[ii00907]

Hi,

I have a problem when i remove a disk. I run this command ;

perl vmreconfig.pl --url https://172.23.42.211/sdk/vimService --username root --password passw0rd --filename ../sampledata/vmreconfig.xml --schema ../schema/vmreconfig.xsd

But i have this result;

No reconfiguration performed as there is no device config spec created.

In attach the file vmreconfig.xml

Help please!!!!!!

[lamw]

The reason it's not working is you're providing the incorrect name of the device ... it actually took me second try before realizing what it was looking for

	  <Hard-Disk>
	     <Name>Disk3</Name>
	  </Hard-Disk>

should be:

	  <Hard-Disk>
	     <Name>Hard disk 3</Name>
	  </Hard-Disk>

Note: The input is case sensitive and notice the d on disk is lower case. To find out the device name, specifically for your vDisk, you can take a look at the settings for your virtual machine and you'll see the various devices. VMware should have better error/warning handling versus just "dying" out with some message relating to the API that a user may not be aware of

Here is a sample output for a successful virtual disk removal:

[vi-admin@scofield vm]$ ./vmreconfig.pl --server himalaya.primp-industries.com --username root --filename ../sampledata/my_vmreconfig.xml ../schema/vmreconfig.xsd
Enter password:

Removing hard disk with the backing filename '[himalaya-local-SATA.RE4-GP:Storage] vMA-resize/vMA-resize_1.vmdk' . . .
Virtual machine 'vMA-resize' is reconfigured successfully.

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William Lam

VMware vExpert 2009

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[ii00907]

Very very thanks,

I had not thought of that.

I found some problems with version 4 of ESX. They took the script of 3.5 and took them on the 4.

Sorry if I ask you another question, but now to hook a rdm to use a VM rdmCreate.pl (vdiskcreate.pl not work). Can you tell me if I can attach a rdm through commands vimsh?

I tried vmware-vim-cmd vmsvc / device.diskaddexisting creating another rdmp.vmdk through vmkftools, but does not work, manages to engage only vdisk.

Thanks to one of your kind reply.

By

Ivan

[lamw · Accepted solution]

afaik, vimsh device.addexistingdisk does not allow you to add an existingn RDM but only standard VMDK(s), it was probably not written to handle RDMs

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William Lam

VMware vExpert 2009

VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at:

VMware Code Central - Scripts/Sample code for Developers and Administrators

VMware Developer Comuunity

Twitter: @lamw

If you find this information useful, please award points for "correct" or "helpful".

[ii00907]

Many thanks,

are very precise and detailed