Recursively Act on vm's in subfolders

[RichardSillito]

Hi All,

Hoping someone has already done this. I want to create a workflow that will shutdown all vm's in Tenant1 folder. The problem is that if you use the getAllVirtualMachinesbyFolder it does not perform a recursive search. So in this example it will find no virtual machines.

Does someone have a workflow example that will do the action recursively?

[iiliev · Accepted solution]

Hi,

There is an action getAllVirtualMachinesByFolderIncludingSubFolders that takes a VmFolder input parameter and returns an array with virtual machines in this folder and its subfolders (performing a recursive search).

Here is the action's scripting code for reference:

if (!vmFolder) {
  throw "UndefinedParameter: vmFolder mandatory input is not defined.";
}

var allVms = new Array();
getAllVmsInFolder(vmFolder);
return allVms;

function getAllVmsInFolder(folder) {
  var children = folder.childEntity;
  for (var i in children) {
  if (children[i] instanceof VcFolder) {
  getAllVmsInFolder(children[i]);
  }
  if (children[i] instanceof VcVirtualMachine) {
  allVms.push(children[i]);
  }
  }
}

[RichardSillito]

Thank you!

That worked perfect!

RS