The list of all virtual machines in a Datacenter

Hello

I have several data centers in the vCetner and I want to list virtual machines in a perticular Datacenter. Here is the script I wrote. Apologies, I am an amateur and my script is a mess;

#! / usr/bin/perl - w
use strict;
Use Data::Dumper;
use VMware::VIRuntime;
My % opts =)
Data Center = > {}
Type = > "s =",
help = > 'enter the name of the data center. "
required = > 1,
}
);
OPTS::add_options (%OPTS);
OPTS::parse();
OPTS::Validate();
Util::Connect();
my $dc = Opts::get_option ('Center');
My $dc_views = Vim::find_entity_views (view_type = > 'Data center',)
filter = > {name = > $dc});
foreach (@$dc_views)
{
My $funky = Vim::get_view (mo_ref = > $_-> vmFolder);
My $funky2 = $funky-> childEntity;
My $funky3 = Vim::get_views (mo_ref_array = > $funky2);
foreach (@$funky3) {print $_-> name.} "\n"; }
}

When I run above to put it just said 'Discovered virtual machine:

#perl test.pl - Server < what > - username < whatever - > password < what > - datacenter DC01_ESXi5

Virtual machine discovery
It would be great if someone could explain to me where I'm wrong. I don't want a script that I would like to get the desired result, indeed, I want to know where I am going wrong in above script. I find it extremely difficult to understand the structure of data API vSphere. Programming Perl is not the issue here.
Thnaks.

There is a somewhat easier way that browsing the inventory tree.

If you just want to entities in a data center, you can use begin_entity in your find_entity_view* calls.

#! / usr/bin/perl - w
use strict;
Use Data::Dumper;
use VMware::VIRuntime;
My % opts =)
Data Center-Online {}
type-online "s =",
help-online "Please enter the name of the data center."
necessary,-online 1
}
);
OPTS::add_options (%OPTS);
OPTS::parse();
OPTS::Validate();
Util::Connect();
my $dc = Opts::get_option ('Center');
My $dc_view = Vim::find_entity_view (view_type-online "Data center"
filter-online {name-online $dc},
Properties-online ['name']);
Don't Die "No data center named"$dc"found!" unless $dc_view;
My $vm_views = Vim::find_entity_views (view_type-online 'VirtualMachine', begin_entity-online $dc_view).
foreach my {$vm (@$vm_views)}
Print "vm:". "." $vm-> name. "\n";
}

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