Get datacenter of esxhost

[orian]

Hi,

How can I get the datacenter location name of an esx host with vRO?

Thanks!

[hawks76]

Probably easiest way to do it is run a powercli script through powershell host and return it there.

Something like this:

Get-VMHost vmhostname | % {$_.Parent.ParentFolder.Parent.Name }

[iiliev · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Here is some sample scripting code (the input parameter is the variable host of type VC:HostSystem)

var hostparent = host.parent;  
while (hostparent != null && !(hostparent instanceof VcDatacenter)) {  
    hostparent = hostparent.parent;  
}  
if (hostparent == null) {  
    System.log("Parent datacenter not found.");  
} else {  
    System.log("Parent datacenter name: " + hostparent.name);  
} 

The idea is to iterate up inventory hierarchy, starting from the esx host, until you find the parent datacenter object.