Aristizabal's Posts

Hello, I am struggling with the object usage in perl; my goal is to pass a VM name as parameter and return some information of the ESXi parent host: use strict; use Data::Dumper; use VMware::VIRuntime; # Auth options Opts::set_option('server', 'vCenter'); Opts::set_option('username', 'user1l'); Opts::set_option('password', 'password1'); print "Connecting \n"; Util::connect(); print "Connected \n"; my $VMView = Vim::find_entity_view( 'view_type' => 'VirtualMachine', 'filter' => { 'name' => 'eduv0002',} ); print $VMView->summary->config->name,"\n";                   print $VMView->runtime->host,"\n"; my $HostRef = $VMView->runtime->host; print $HostRef; Util::disconnect(); But the output is: Connecting Connected vm-test ManagedObjectReference=HASH(0x2435648) Undefined subroutine &ManagedObjectReference::name called at ./test.pl line 24 So it looks like I can get the host with no issues but I don't know how to access its properties having a Managed Object Reference. Any help is appreciated, thank you. Juan.

Hello, I am trying to obtain the list of licensed features for a vSphere 4.0 host using the the QueryAssignedLicenses method via perl SDK. I can get the license Manager object but every time I get the managed object "LicenseAssignmentManager" it is undefined. Here is the code I am using: my $host; my $host_views = Vim::find_entity_views(view_type => 'HostSystem'); $host = @$host_views[0]; my $licenseSystem = Vim::get_view(mo_ref => ($host->configManager->licenseManager) ); my $licenses = Vim::get_view(mo_ref => ($licenseSystem->licenseAssignmentManager) ); my $licenseDummy = $licenses->QueryAssignedLicenses(); And this is the error message: "Can't call method "type" on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl/5.8/VMware/VICommon.pm line 1244." I have tried assigning the return value of QueryAssignedLicenses(); directly to an object but the result is the same, and I think the method can't be called since the LicenseAssignmentManager" object is undefined. As pointed out on the thread: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1271444, I tried with different methods but all of them are deprecated for vSphere and I get a SOAP error. Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks. Juan Aristizabal.

I have an iSCSI target that has been formatted and partitioned to create a volume. I want to be able to map the LUN of iSCSI target to the volume UUID. esxcfig-vmhbadev -m does this directly, for example in the bottom line LUN 207 maps to the UUID 4ac128de-d4b8f7c3-a4a5-001ec9ab7607. vmhba0:1:0:1 /dev/sdb1 47a3995d-bf8312ea-aa8a-0019b9f36fbf vmhba0:0:0:3 /dev/sda3 479f6ab3-636688b2-277b-0019b9f36fc1 vmhba1:4:200:1 /dev/sdc1 4ac127e9-81fb1fcf-1138-001ec9ab7607 vmhba1:15:207:1 /dev/sdd1 4ac128de-d4b8f7c3-a4a5-001ec9ab7607 How do I do this using the Perl API? I can get two halfs of the information, but I can't see how to map them. This code snippet gives me information about the LUN, and the SCSI UUID print " Canonical Name, UUID\n"; my $scsiLUN = $storageSystem->storageDeviceInfo->scsiLun; foreach (@$scsiLUN) { print " ". $_->canonicalName . ", " . $_->uuid . "\n"; } Canonical Name, UUID vmhba1:15:207, 0100cf000020202020564952545541 vmhba0:1:0, 020000000050014ee0004544c3574443205744 vmhba0:0:0, 020000000050014ee0004544d2574443205744 vmhba1:4:200, 0100c8000020202020564952545541 Then this snippet give me information about the volume: my $mountInfo = $storageSystem->fileSystemVolumeInfo->mountInfo; print " Volume Name, Path, Type, Capacity\n"; foreach (@$mountInfo) { print " ". $_->volume->name . ", " . $_->mountInfo->path . ", " . $_->volume->type . ", " . $_->volume->capacity . "\n"; } Volume Name, Path, Type, Capacity esx7_local_storage2, /vmfs/volumes/47a3995d-bf8312ea-aa8a-0019b9f36fbf, VMFS, 79725330432 esx7_local_storage1, /vmfs/volumes/479f6ab3-636688b2-277b-0019b9f36fc1, VMFS, 71672266752 vol_2_1, /vmfs/volumes/4ac127e9-81fb1fcf-1138-001ec9ab7607, VMFS, 805306368 snap-0e22598d-vol_2_1, /vmfs/volumes/4ac128de-d4b8f7c3-a4a5-001ec9ab7607, VMFS, 805306368 But then how do I map vmhba1:15:207 to /vmfs/volumes/4ac128de-d4b8f7c3-a4a5-001ec9ab7607? Thanks

Hi. I am working with the ViX API to get the state of a VM, according to the documentation here are the expected return values: typedef int VixPowerState; enum { VIX_POWERSTATE_POWERING_OFF = 0x0001, VIX_POWERSTATE_POWERED_OFF = 0x0002, VIX_POWERSTATE_POWERING_ON = 0x0004, VIX_POWERSTATE_POWERED_ON = 0x0008, VIX_POWERSTATE_SUSPENDING = 0x0010, VIX_POWERSTATE_SUSPENDED = 0x0020, VIX_POWERSTATE_TOOLS_RUNNING = 0x0040, VIX_POWERSTATE_RESETTING = 0x0080, VIX_POWERSTATE_BLOCKED_ON_MSG = 0x0100, VIX_POWERSTATE_PAUSED = 0x0200, VIX_POWERSTATE_RESUMING = 0x0800, }; But I am getting the code 0x0408 sometimes when the VM is currently powered on, can somebody tell me the meaning of this code, is it providing extra information about the VM?? Thank you.

Hi. I have configured an alarm to call a script whenever a VM is vMotioned with the following code: my $alarmScript = 'C:\event-reporter.bat'; my $alarmMgr = Vim::get_service_content()->alarmManager; my $alarm = Vim::get_view(mo_ref => $alarmMgr); my $alarmExpr = EventAlarmExpression->new (eventType=>'VmMigratedEvent'); my $alarmAction = RunScriptAction->new( script => $alarmScript ); my $alarmTrigger = AlarmTriggeringAction->new( action => $alarmAction, red2yellow => 1, green2yellow => 1, yellow2red => 1, yellow2green => 1 ); my $alarmSpec = AlarmSpec->new( name => 'VM vMotioned', description => 'Trigger to run script when VM is started' , enabled => 1, expression => $alarmExpr, action => $alarmTrigger, ); my $newAlarm = $alarm->CreateAlarm(entity => $vm, spec=>$alarmSpec); I would like to improve this alarm by passing runtime parameters to the script when the VM is migrated, more specifically the host IP of the ESX hosting the recently migrated VM. I know that by using the ActionParameter constants you can pass runtime info, but I don't know if is possible to pass information of the object (VM) the alarm is associated to. Thanks. Juan Aristizabal.