How to get dVS portgroup connected to guestNic

[KFukumoto]

Hi

I am trying to get portgroupName connected to specific guestNic.

In case of standard vSwitch , I can get the portgroupName connencted the guestNic

by following sample code. I got the portgroupName in the Data object guestNicInfo->network.

But, In case of dVS , the sample do not work well. No data in the guestNicInfo->network.

How can I get the dVS-porgroupName connected to guestNic ?

#= sample code ==

my $vm_views = Vim::find_entity_views(view_type=>"VirtualMachine");

foreach my $vm_view(@$vm_views){

print "=== virtualMachine : ". $vm_view->name ."\n";

my $guestInfo = $vm_view->guest;

my $guestNicInfos = $guestInfo->net;

foreach my $guestNicInfo(@$guestNicInfos){

print "---- guestNicInfos----

---

\n";

print " deviceConfigId:" . $guestNicInfo->deviceConfigId ."\n"; #DeviceKey

print " porgroupName connected to the guestNic" . $guestNicInfo->network ."\n";

}

}

#=================

[lamw]

Here is a vSphere SDK for Perl script that may help you extract out the distributed portgroup for your virtual machines: . I do have to say it's definitely not pretty and you may also want to take a look at this thread for a cleaner solution: which requires a manual update to the Perl client stubs to extract out information from a distributed vSwitch than having to do multiple nested calls.

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[KFukumoto]

Thank you lamw.

I executed the script on my system.

But, the script seems like return not-definite portgroupName connected to guestNic.

I also see your sample execution on DOC-11581.

The sample execution listed 2 lines like this.

VM MAC PORTGROUP

-

---

vm-4 00:50:56:92:63:61 - VM Network

-

---

vm-4 00:50:56:92:63:61 - Internet.

-

---

It seems one vNic(00:50:56:92:63:61) connected two portgroup VM Network and Internet .

My execution listed same as this.

How can I definite the portgroupName connected to the guestNic ?