Finding out the host (blade) that a VM is running on

[sewatkins]

As the title says, I'm trying to find out using the perl api, what host a particular vm is running on.

Im building a script with perl and cgi that will allow automated statistics collection for an experiment at work. Our analysts want to know the blade load during the testing, and I would like to be able to dynamically determine that during the run time of the script, as opposed to collecting all data on all blades statically.

[lamw]

Assuming you now how to retrieve the VM moref, under config there is a host property http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk41pubs/ApiReference/vim.vm.RuntimeInfo.html which points back to HostSystem moref in which you can dereive the particular ESX or ESXi host in question including it's displayname and/or hostname.

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[sewatkins]

Im still learning how to work through all of this. As of late, I've just been modifying scripts with my knowledge of perl. I've just gotten into really learning the API. What do you mean by retrieving the VM moref? Is it a method I should call?

Thanks