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I have not yet migrated to vSphere and am using Virtual Center 2.x and ESX 3.5. I'm trying to determine if there is an automated way to invoke the discovery of a Datastore, either NFS or SAN. Ideally this would be a CLI or scriptable command that could be executed to pick up a new volume, create a VMFS filesystem and assign a datastore name. Any idea if something like this exists, or if all datastores have to be allocated by hand?

Trying to get some of my tools back to vmware code rather than leverage external datasources. One major place I am trying to revert back to is my fesderated search routine over a bunch of VCs. Basically I use a cache of inventory from a bunch of VCs now, but the new X-Hive source may have what I need. What I am lacking is some good examples of code around pulling data from those (preferrably C# but I will make do). First order of business is doing a session creation via vws\Login, but I don't know what I am missing for params and I get consistent 400s. Tried sending in some HTTP Basic stuff and verified in Fiddler that it was properly created in the header, but still no dice. Anyone dive into Query or Health yet and have some code to share? J

Hi, I am a new developer from another country. These days I encounter a problem that: I want to invoke a vm by the API powerOnVMTask in the class VimPortType. I successfully do it with the second parameter value as null. But I donot know how to use the second parameter "host". Is it mean that if I indicate host value, the vm will be poweroned on that host? Or other meaning? I googled for 2 days but can not find out the answer. Could anybody help me answer this question? I will be very happy if anybody pay attention to my question. Thank you very much!

Hi, Occasionally SDK calls to vCenter server fails in one customer deployment with following error in vpxd.log Connection to server localhost:8085 failed with error Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted. . 'ProxySvc Req00040' 3472 error] Connection to server localhost:8085 failed with error Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted. . Retrying... 'ProxySvc Req00040' 3472 error] Connection to server localhost:8085 failed with error An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. . Retrying... 'ProxySvc Req00040' 3472 error] Connection to server localhost:8085 failed with error An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. . Retrying... 'ProxySvc Req00040' 3472 error] Connection to server localhost:8085 failed with error An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. . Retrying... netstat gives more than 300 rows with TCP 127.0.0.1:1097 127.0.0.1:8085 LAST_ACK What can be the problem ? Any pointers will be helpful. Best regards, Antony

Hi, Can any one help me to CopyFileFromHostToGuest using the Web Services in C#. Any sample code would be greatly appreciated. I am using VIX PAI call VixVM_CopyFileFromHostToGuest. But this call seems to be not working corectly. The VIX API call only working when i specify the particular directory on th Host System and it is copying all the files in the directory to the destination. If I specify the particular file to copy it is throwing the error. Thanks a lot for the Help!

The problem: Automate loading of multiple iso image "product" onto a virtual machine. Searching I've found that changing the iso image for a cdrom virtual drive in a virtual machine seems to be a common problem, but seldom is there any solution. I've found references to vmware-cmd disconnectdevice/connectdevice. I've also found "legacy" script APIs that can essentially perform the same thing. However, seems this isn't available for vmware server 2 (only ESX and GSX server...). I've found that vmrun is replacement for vmware-cmd, with the exception that there are some things vmware-cmd could do that doesn't appear as an option in any documentation I can find with vmrun. The same goes for the VIX APIs. Again nothing found that helps with the connection issue. I've already figured out how to use the writeVariable option with vmrun to modify the iso pointed to for the virtual cdrom. The only step missing in automation is the automatic re-connecting of the virtual cdrom. If I manually start a console and click on the cdrom icon in the bottom and select connect, everything works. Problem is, I want to have that accomplished programatically and prefereably not through some gui automator. Is this just a limitation of vmware server 2 product? i.e. I need to get ESX instead? I guess an alternative is to make a giant iso so no switching is required, but that just postpones the problem. Is installation of software via iso images just so unpopular on linux that its not a frequent enough problem to address? Maybe I've just been searching too long and developed "tunnel vision". Any help/advice anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. vmware server 2.01 on SLES 10 SP2 with guest also containing SLES 10 SP2 on x86-64 hardware.

Hi I am trying to implement the web services that are available at in C# windows app. Can you pleases help me out. I sucess fully extracted the WSDL and generated the class file out of it. Can any one provide me a simpe windows app using the webservices. I tried to understand the samples provided with the download. But confusing to me! Please help me out. Thanks a lot!

Hi. I need to check whether a virtual disk is in persistent mode or not. no need to change it, just get the current state. code is in C#. I know how to get the power state and so, but never gone too deep. if anyone can help with a sample or so, i'll be very happy. Thanks !! Jo.

HI, My name is Bill Orth and I am looking for help. I just started a new job and I am not at all familiar with VMware. We currently have a red hat linux server 4.0 running VW 1.069. I am not familiar with Linux either and I would like to eliminate Linux from the equation and convert to ESXI. The problem is, I don't know how to do this. It looks as if the person whom I replaced made backups of the existing system by creating tar files. Can you please tell me what the easiest and safest way is to convert my current setup to ESXI. I know this is a lot to ask of a strangers but I am somewhat desperate. I have 20+ years of experience in IT, but the setup in my new employment is totally different than anything I have ever experienced. I received no training and am terrified that I am going to walk in to work and the servers will be down and I wont have a clue as to how to get them up and running. Please, any help would be appreciated.