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Hi. I have a plan to perform a snapshot deletion. (ESXi 7) I am looking at the following KB I know that I cannot cancel the deletion of a snapshot in the middle. I know that I can't cancel the snapshot deletion in the middle because it will destroy the data. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1023657 I am assuming that if the disk is large, the deletion will take longer. I asked because the building might lose power in the middle of deleting snapshots. If the building loses power, it will shut down the ESXi host. Is there any way to cancel deleting a snapshot in the middle if the deletion takes a long time and does not finish ? I understand that data can be corrupted.

I am trying to open a VMDK file on a VMFS datastore via mount but the Vixdisklib_Open() function returns error code 16063 ("The specified file is not a virtual disk"). Same API works with NFS datastore.  Note: we have mounted the VMFS datastore using vmfs6-tools on the ubuntu system where the VDDK is running.  After further debugging, we noticed that Vixdisklib_Open() works for MAIN vmdk file (createType="vmfs" and data file is -flat.vmdk). But it fails with the SESPARSE snapshot vmdk file (createType="seSparse" and data file is -000001-sesparse.vmdk) Are there additional parameters to set while opening SESPARSE snapshot vmdk file?  

Hi all, Our team will participate in this year's VMware Explore in Las Vegas with one session and a project in the Hackathon. The session subject is: Journey to Develop, Install and Manage a vSphere Client Plug-In. The hackathon project is open for others to join. Our project is focused on remote plugins and some new technologies to do analytics on the vCenter objects, titled: Optimising vSphere performance made easy You can use the registration form to sign for this awesome hackathon project. See you at the VMware Explore!

Hello! I'd like to know if there is a way of retrieving the identity sources using rest api or vsphere webservices api or PowerCli or whatever I can automate. I have 3 identity sources in a vCenter and I thought I could retrieve them using the rest api with the following method: https://developer.vmware.com/apis/vsphere-automation/v7.0U3/vcenter/api/vcenter/identity/providers/get/ but I only get an emtpy array. Is there any way to retrieve the identity sources of a vCenter? Thanks!  

I want to use rest api to extracts the custom properties data of deployments in vRA. Upon checking vRA swagger api portal, I could not find any api that can do the job, all i could see was an api that could extract all the deployments or meta data of a particular api but nothing helped.

Is it still true that we are unable to specify a datastore sub folders for .vmx and .vmdk files when using cloneVM_task() (using pyvmomi)?  I found this post: https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vSphere-Management-SDK/cloneVM-Task-over-datastores-and-folders/td-p/1060992 At first glance it seems that using the vim.vm.Relocatespec.DiskLocator and providing a backing spec with the location spelled out would do the trick, but it is being ignored.  I also tried using deviceChange relocation spec, but no joy for either. For example:   for device in source_vm_config.hardware.device: if isinstance( device, vim.vm.device.VirtualDisk ): #Try copying the backing spec from the VirtualDisk device #and update the fileName member with the datastore and path # e.g. "[datastoreName] Path1/Path2/vm_name/vm_name.vmdk" diskBackingInfo = device.backing diskBackingInfo.fileName = f"{datastorePathName}/{vm_name}.vmdk" diskBackingInfo.datastore = datastore #Retrieved earlier, it is a managed objct diskRelocator = vim.vm.RelocateSpec.DiskLocator( datastore = datastore, diskBackingInfo = diskBackingInfo, diskId = device.key ) disk.append(diskRelocator) #Now try a second method by doing a deviceChange, but updating the backing # of the VirtualDisk device deviceUpdate = device deviceUpdate.backing = diskBackingInfo deviceSpec = vim.vm.device.VirtualDeviceSpec( device=deviceUpdate, operation=vim.vm.device.VirtualDeviceSpec.Operation.edit) deviceChanges.append(deviceSpec) deviceChanges.append(deviceSpec) relocationSpec = vim.vm.RelocateSpec( datastore = datastore, deviceChange = deviceChanges, disk=disk, folder = destVmFolder, pool = selectedResourcePool) . . . cloneVmSpec = vim.vm.CloneSpec( location = relocationSpec, powerOn = False, template = False) task = source_vm.CloneVM_Task( folder = destFolder, name=vm_name, spec=cloneVmSpec ) vim_utils.wait_for_tasks(self.service_instance.content, [task])   We are automating a testing group of VMs that get created and cloned.  To keep things neat and tidy, I'd like to specify sub folders where the files eventually go. If CloneVM_Taks() doesn't do this, is there a recommended way to subsequently move these files and have the Virtual Machine updated with the new file locations? Thank you, Kevin    

Hoo can say me how create from  rest api active directory user and asign him role ? im try somfing like this, im login inside domain from vcenter gui but my list providers stay blank curl -k -X POST -H "vmware-api-session-id: <toke>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "active_directory_over_ldap": { "groups_base_dn": "cn=users,dc=torgsoft,dc=local", "password": "XXXXX", "server_endpoints": ["torgsoft.local"], "user_name": "administrator@torgsoft.local", "users_base_dn": "cn=users,dc=torgsoft,dc=local" }, "idm_protocol": "" }' "https://vnc.torgsoft.local/api/vcenter/identity/providers" | jq and in answer server tell me  "default_message": "Structure com.vmware.vcenter.identity.providers.create_spec has a union constraint with tag 'idm_protocol' of value '', for which the field 'active_directory_over_ldap' is not allowed to be set.",

Hello, I'm trying to make a request on vSan through wsdl, but I'm having difficulties, I can only login to the webservice, could someone help me to consume, for example, the QueryAvailablePerfMetric method, here's a print below of SoapUI: Thanks

Greetings Team,                         We are migrating our application from Java11 to Java17 and for virtualization I am using vim25.jar which is internally using axis-1.4.1 jar and is throwing below exception:   Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/net/ssl/internal/ssl/Provider java.base/java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method) java.base/java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Unknown Source) java.base/java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Unknown Source) java.base/java.lang.Class.getConstructor(Unknown Source) org.apache.commons.discovery.tools.ClassUtils.newInstance(ClassUtils.java:159) org.apache.axis.AxisProperties$1.run(AxisProperties.java:181) java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Unknown Source) org.apache.axis.AxisProperties.newInstance(AxisProperties.java:164) org.apache.axis.components.net.SocketFactoryFactory.getFactory(SocketFactoryFactory.java:76) org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.getSocket(HTTPSender.java:186) org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.writeToSocket(HTTPSender.java:403) org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.invoke(HTTPSender.java:137) org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(InvocationStrategy.java:32) org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(SimpleChain.java:118) org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(SimpleChain.java:83) org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:165) org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2782) org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2765) org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2443) org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2366) org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1812) com.vmware.vim25.VimBindingStub.retrieveServiceContent(VimBindingStub.java:55605)     Root cause: com/sun/net/ssl/internal/ssl/Provider support is removed in Java17 and I need alternative for this provider specifically for Java17.   Is there any latest vim or any other vmware api jar available which is compatible with Java17?   I would appreciate your quick response! Thank You. Vinoth

Hi, I'm trying to find a way to retrieve the DRS rules that have conflicts using the web services api. I've been able to get the DRS rules config in the ClusterComputeResource->configuration->rule: rule = (vim.cluster.RuleInfo) [ (vim.cluster.AntiAffinityRuleSpec) { dynamicType = <unset>, dynamicProperty = (vmodl.DynamicProperty) [], key = 4, status = <unset>, enabled = true, name = 'AFLSDKH', mandatory = <unset>, userCreated = true, inCompliance = <unset>, ruleUuid = '5224c444-3cd1-084b-54d5-2576b510d49a', vm = (vim.VirtualMachine) [ 'vim.VirtualMachine:vm-1040', 'vim.VirtualMachine:vm-1044' ] }, (vim.cluster.AffinityRuleSpec) { dynamicType = <unset>, dynamicProperty = (vmodl.DynamicProperty) [], key = 5, status = <unset>, enabled = false, name = 'asdfasg', mandatory = <unset>, userCreated = true, inCompliance = <unset>, ruleUuid = '523fee15-9eaf-0a51-3276-82046d4caaf0', vm = (vim.VirtualMachine) [ 'vim.VirtualMachine:vm-1044', 'vim.VirtualMachine:vm-1040' ] } ] But I cannot find anywhere the info about the conflicts of each rule and the vms in conflict. Does anybody know how to retrieve this info? Thanks in advance.