How to get read the vsphere client in Perl folder structure?

Hi all

the vsphere Windows client shows a folder structure. How can I check this folder via the Perl API structure?

See you soon,.

Moritz

It is built in function that does this for you.  It recursively traverses the path to the root.  It is not the best in terms of performance, but if you're not in large environments in bulk to a large number of managed entities, it will work fine.

#! / usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use VMware::VIRuntime;
Use Data::Dumper;
My % opts =)
vmname-online {}
type-online "s =",
variable-online "VMNAME",.
help-online "full name of the virtual machine.
necessary,-online 1
},
);
OPTS::add_options (%OPTS);
OPTS::parse();
OPTS::Validate();
Util::Connect();
my ($vm, $name, $path);
$name = Opts::get_option ('vmname');
$vm = Vim::find_entity_view (view_type-online 'VirtualMachine", filter-online {name-online $name});
Die 'Can't find the virtual machine with the name '$name' ' unless $vm;
$path = Util::get_inventory_path ($vm, Vim::get_vim());)
print ' VirtualMachine '$name': $path\n ";
BEGIN {}
$ENV {'PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME'} = 0;
}

Perl vm-path.pl--username=administrator@vlab--password = VMware1! -Server = 172.16.254.81 - vmname = DC2_C4_RP3_VM36

VirtualMachine 'DC2_C4_RP3_VM36': DC2/vm/DC2_C4_RP3_VM36

You can also watch some scripts circulating in the samples, it made its own recursive function to back up the tree to get the names of data center.

http://communities.VMware.com/docs/doc-9614

You can modify this script to get similar results.

If you get the paths for a large number of entities in a large environment, you might want to look forward and generate a map of hash of all the parent property and the name, then walk that yourself instead of calling back to vCenter every time.

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