kri-2's Posts

Hi folks, we have installed our first vCenter 6.5 appliance and now a script that ever worked without any problems doesn't work anymore. The PerlSDK is still on 6.0, but I can not believe that they did such a change in this fundamental function. To simplify it, I try to find a given host: $host_view = Vim::find_entity_view( view_type => "HostSystem",                                     filter    => {'name' => qr/^$host/i} );       This won't give a object back although everthing in the name is correct of course. In vCenter 5.5 this works. What I found out, that script needs the properties attribut newly: $host_view = Vim::find_entity_view( view_type => "HostSystem",                                     filter    => {'name' => qr/^$host/i},                                     properties => [ 'name'], ); this works again, but e.g. properties => [ 'name', 'summary', 'config'] does not again. Since I need more properties (summary and config for the configManager) this does not realy help me. So as summary: find_entity_view() seems to need the properies attribut now, but than accepts exact only one property. Did anyone hit the same problem yet? Is this a known bug? Any idea how to work around this problem? Any help would be appreciated. Chris

Hi all, another question came up today. I have to create a vm and add a floppy drive. Sometimes the floppy drive should be backed by an Image, sometimes not. I could create two VirtualFloppy Objects, depending on having an image or not. This blows up my code, so it would be nice to add the backing to the objects afterwards if needed. In my opinion the code should look roughly like this, but this throws an error: Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call at.... sub getFloppy{ my $image =$_[0]; my $virFloppy = VirtualFloppy->new( connectable => VirtualDeviceConnectInfo->new(allowGuestControl => 'false',                                                                                                                                           startConnected => 'true',                                                                                                                                           connected => 'true'),                                                             controllerKey => 400,                                                             key => 8000,          ); if($image){       $virFloppy->backing=VirtualFloppyImageBackingInfo->new(fileName => $image); } return $virFloppy } Any ideas? Thanks, Chris

Hi all, a rarely accident today brings me here again. Today morning a customer tried to create a vm via a website that is talking to our own perlscripts. The objective cluster was the one that we were updating at this moment. And the loop that picks a host randomly picked a host that was going to maintenance at this moment :-(. Of course the loop skips host that have "inMaintenanceMode" set to 1. But this is not the case while hosts are going to maintenance but are not ready yet. vCenter throws a fault.InvalidState.summary error. Should we really catch this one or is there a way to query the host if it accecpts the creation of a vm at the moment? Chris

Hi all, I have a script that is connecting to a few vCenter servers and reading some information. This had a problem today morning. It figured out that one vCenter is not accepting the login although the service is running. If I connect via vCenter Client I get the message "could not login. The vCenter Server took too long to response".  If I would get this answer as an error from Vim::Login this would be great as I am using a eval block around it. But I don't get a timeout...Vim::Login tries forever and does not come back, even after minutes and hours. I know, this is an error which does not come often and it can be solved by restarting the vCenter server. But it would be very important for me to catch this error in perl to. Do I have to write my own timeout routine around the Vim::Login? Any ideas why Vim::Login does not timeout here? Any help would be appreciated. Chris

Hi, I am trying to reboot a host with the rebootHost_Task (MOR _this, boolean force). Therefor I need a MOR of he host. But how do I get this, if I am directly connectet and not via vCenter? I tried: ManagedObjectReference mor = si.getServerConnection().getServiceInstance().getMOR(); si.getServerConnection().getVimService().rebootHost_Task(mor, true); But this throws an error: The request refers to an unexpected or unknown type. Any help would be appreciated. Chris

Hi all, I am trying to read the vCenter inventory step by step (not recursive) to lazy fill a TreeView. Starting with the rootFolder I want to get deeper into the vCenter structure without having to differ if the child object is a HostSystem, ClusterComputeResource, Folder, Datacenter, ... For each Folder I can use folder.getChildEntity(); But how do I get the childs of all the others (Datacenter, ClusterComputeResource,...) ? I saw some examples using the InventoryNavigator, but they all used rootFolder as start. Is it somehow possible to pass any ManagedEntity? I think of an method like this: public static ManagedEntity[] returnChilds (ManagedEntity mE){      // get all childs of mE (HostSystem, ClusterComputeResource, Datacenter, Folder, VM)      ManagedEntity[] mEs = mE.getChilds();      // and return them      return mEs; } Any help would be appreciated! Greatings, Chris

Hi, I am trying to change the Subnetmask of a Vmotion Network via Perl SDK. For this I wanted to use the method UpdateIpConfig from the HostVMotionSystem. But the documentantion mentions, that HostVMotionSystem ist deprecated and you should use virtualNicManager. But where has the UpdateIpConfig gone? It is not known in the virtualNicManager. Your help is greatly appreciated Greetings, Chris