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Matt Delves
Asked: 2009-11-19 14:55:26 +0800 CST

programmatically obtaining a list of vmware guests

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Is there a way to programmatically (that is write a small c app or better yet a ruby or perl script) to obtain a list of all of the guests (and also details about the guests) from a VMWare Infrastructure?

Thanks, Matt Delves

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Lots of options HERE

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  2. Something like this should work well. When invoking this perl script you will need to specify the server (server_fqdn:port#) along with the username and password (e.g. $ perl listVMS --server 1.1.1.1:333 --username "whatever\user" --password "s0m3p4ss") 

    use FindBin;
use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../";

use VMware::VIRuntime;
use AppUtil::HostUtil;
use AppUtil::VMUtil;

use Data::Dumper;

use Getopt::Long qw( :config no_ignore_case pass_through );

Opts::parse('pass_through');
$server     = Opts::get_option('server');
$username   = Opts::get_option('username');
$password   = Opts::get_option('password');

$service_url = "https://".$server."/sdk/vimService";

Util::connect();

Vim::login(service_url => $service_url, user_name => $username, password => $password);

# This gets all the host systems
my $host_views = Vim::find_entity_views(view_type => 'HostSystem', properties => [ 'summary', 'hardware', 'name' ]); 

foreach my $host (@$host_views) {
    $hostname = $host->name;

    my $host_view = Vim::find_entity_view(view_type => 'HostSystem', filter => { name => $host->name } );

    # This gets all the vms running on a the host system
    my $vm_views = Vim::find_entity_views(view_type => 'VirtualMachine', begin_entity => $host_view, properties => ['summary','name']);

    print "HostSystem '$hostname' has the following virtual guests\n";
    foreach my $vm (@$vm_views) 
    {
        my $vmName = $vm->name;
        print "\t$vmName\n";
    }

} 
Util::disconnect();
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