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Can't create folder in vCenter using perl.
Hi! We have vCenter v6.0 installation and i'm trying to write a Perl script. One part of this script should create a folder. For example - called "123"
Here is the perl code I wrote:
$folder = Vim::find_entity_view( view_type => 'Folder', filter => { 'name' => $folder_name } );
$folder=$folder->CreateFolder("123");
Unfortunately, an error occured:
Odd number of elements in hash assignment at (eval 186) line 4.
Unexpected arguments: 123 at (eval 52) line 143.
VimService::build_arg_string(ARRAY(0x37ccdd8), HASH(0x37ccd60)) called at (eval 52) line 1183
VimService::CreateFolder(VimService=HASH(0x32b2c98), "_this", ManagedObjectReference=HASH(0x42623a8), 123, undef) called at /usr/share/perl/5.22/VMware/VICommon.pm line 1884
ViewBase::invoke(Folder=HASH(0x418b420), "CreateFolder", 123, undef) called at (eval 186) line 5
FolderOperations::CreateFolder(Folder=HASH(0x418b420), 123) called at /var/www/html/perl/createvm.pl line 94
main::deploy_template() called at /var/www/html/perl/createvm.pl line 174
Can somebody assist? How should i fix this?
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This works for me:
my $folder = Vim::find_entity_view( view_type => 'Folder', filter => { 'name' => "Templates" } );
$folder->CreateFolder( name => "123");
You need to tell the method "CreateFolder" the new of the new folder as a hash.
Here you can find the docu: https://pubs.vmware.com/vi3/sdk/ReferenceGuide/vim.Folder.html#createFolder