Can't create folder in vCenter using perl.

[MrCommander]

Hi! We have vCenter v6.0 installation and i'm trying to write a Perl script. One part of this script should create a folder. For example - called "123"

Here is the perl code I wrote:

$folder = Vim::find_entity_view( view_type => 'Folder', filter => { 'name' => $folder_name } );

$folder=$folder->CreateFolder("123");

Unfortunately, an error occured:

Odd number of elements in hash assignment at (eval 186) line 4.

Unexpected arguments: 123 at (eval 52) line 143.

VimService::build_arg_string(ARRAY(0x37ccdd8), HASH(0x37ccd60)) called at (eval 52) line 1183

VimService::CreateFolder(VimService=HASH(0x32b2c98), "_this", ManagedObjectReference=HASH(0x42623a8), 123, undef) called at /usr/share/perl/5.22/VMware/VICommon.pm line 1884

ViewBase::invoke(Folder=HASH(0x418b420), "CreateFolder", 123, undef) called at (eval 186) line 5

FolderOperations::CreateFolder(Folder=HASH(0x418b420), 123) called at /var/www/html/perl/createvm.pl line 94

main::deploy_template() called at /var/www/html/perl/createvm.pl line 174

Can somebody assist? How should i fix this?

[aleex42]

This works for me:

my $folder = Vim::find_entity_view( view_type => 'Folder', filter => { 'name' => "Templates" } );
$folder->CreateFolder( name => "123");

You need to tell the method "CreateFolder" the new of the new folder as a hash.

Here you can find the docu: https://pubs.vmware.com/vi3/sdk/ReferenceGuide/vim.Folder.html#createFolder