Permissions to connect to esxi with perl sdk

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  our VMware environment is divided into two physical places represented as two instances of vCenter. The two vCenters are interconnected. I think that its Mode called "related"?

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  With respect to the combination of queries... not so easy.  You need to redesign each vCenter with $vim-> find_entity_views().  Now on a more advanced note, API is powerful enough to make custom inventory queries, you can usually pick up and keep the updates in your objects.

  What I would recommend as a simple approach is two calls to find_entity_views, then push them in a hash or an array.  You'll just want to use the UUID vCenter:

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  }

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  Install the requirements of the module as shown in "vSphere SDK Perl Source Code installation on Linux".  In the source package, copy the folder VMware vmware vsphere-cli-distrib/lib/VMware/sharing of archive download Perl Linux SDK to your path to Perl.

  For required modules, you can use PPM, CPAN or apt get the packages.

  I ran this way for years without any problem, but this obviously isn't an official support statement

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• Remote SCSI via the perl SDK

  I understand that there are ways to get information about the investigation of SCSI LUNS via the SDK and rCLI.

  In particular, the class ScsiLun: http://www.VMware.com/support/developer/VC-SDK/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/Vim.host.ScsiLun.html#field_detail

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  VDDK seems to only allow access to the low-level vmdk files, but does not have access beyond. VDDK can be a solution with a RDM vmdk file cards, but does not provide the same level of access to a logical unit number which has a VMFS partition.

  What would be nice, is to have methods on the object ScsiLun allowing at least read() calls to appear.

  Is not possible. VDDK primary use case is to allow users to manipulate and manage the VMDK (s) for a given virtual machine, it does nothing with the storage array. The vSphere API allows you to perform basic and the configuration of your VMware infrastructure management and base operations around the storage system under such as creating new VMFS volumes or resignaturing/re-mounting a volume snapshot, which is as much as the API exposed in terms of storage void System. If you want more integration and control of the storage subsystem, then you will probably need to look at vStorage API for integration of table better known under the name of VAAI and only sellers of table I know that it is taking part in this program is the type of EMC, NetApp and Dell. So unless you work for them, you probably won't be able to get access to the internal API allowing then storage vendors hang their respective API

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  =========================================================================

  William Lam

  VMware vExpert 2009

  Scripts for VMware ESX/ESXi and resources at: http://engineering.ucsb.edu/~duonglt/vmware/

  Twitter: @lamw

  repository scripts vGhetto

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  VMware Code Central - Scripts/code samples for developers and administrators

  VMware developer community

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  William Lam

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