Accessing vmx from VM

[Mahendra2]

Hi, 

I understand .vmx is kept at data store for a particular VM. This keeps the settings vcentre uses to spawn a particular VM. 

Is there a way VM can to fetch the data from .vmx file as metadata. Or in particular, can we access .vmx file from within the VM. 

[a_p_]

Not directly as far as I know.

André

[mvpimran]

.vmx is VM configuration as metadata file and .vmdk is vdisk file for the VM. 

Can I know why do you want access same current in use file from same VM ? 

[Mahendra2]

I want to add few metadata as userdata and use it inside vm.

[Mahendra2]

Is there an indirect way 

[scott28tt]

What information in the VMX file do you wish the guest OS had access to, and why?

[Mahendra2]

It can be any information which can be read by the VM.

For instance, I want to give the role as primary to one VM and secondary to another VM, tertiary to third VM etc.

[scott28tt]

For what software?

I don’t think it’s possible to do what I think you’re trying to do.

[sampath999]

Are you trying to priorities the VM power on and service start times for a 3 tier application.

If that is the case you can leverage Affinity rules and use vROps to achieve the same in some fashion.

With the given details I'm not able to understand the use case your trying to achieve.

Please provide more information on the use case to give you the information that might help achieve the same 

[sthoppaynetapp]

Check - https://williamlam.com/2022/09/vsphere-datasets-new-virtual-machine-metadata-service-in-vsphere-8.ht...