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‎08-23-2010 10:17 AM

what perl function let's you get vmdisk names?

In vminfo.pl the number of virtual disks is displayed to the user. I would like to know, what function do you use to get the name and location of all those virtual disks?

elsif($_ eq 'virtualdisks') {

if (defined ($vm_view->summary->config->numVirtualDisks)) {

print_log($vm_view->summary->config->numVirtualDisks,

"virtualDisks","Virtual Disks");

}

Is there something like a $vm_view->summary->config->nameVirtualDisks?

thanks,

holly

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lamw
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‎08-23-2010 10:25 AM

There is no specific "Perl" function that does this, these are all properties via the vSphere API which can be accessed via the Perl SDK.

What you need to do is loop through a VM's device list which is an array - http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.vm.device.VirtualDevi... and look for device type "VirtualDisk".

From here, if you're looking for the displayName of the disk such as "Hard Disk 1"/etc. you'll want to query deviceInfo->Name - http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.Description.html. If you're looking for the full path which includes the datastore + VMDK name, then you'll need to query backing->fileName - http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.vm.device.VirtualDevi...

Here is a vSphere SDK for Perl script which implements these two properties along with others with respect to a VM's VMDKs:

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