I'm trying to get started using the vSphere API, reading the document at the link below I should be able to browse to my vcenter using "sdk" in the URL but it's blank. Also I read that you have to download the root certificates, but that link is not where this document claims it is. I'm using 5.5
Do I need to enable this SDK in vCenter?
I need the ability to filter what objects should fall to collection when retrieving objects in vSphere API, but can`t find any information about it in documentation.
Only using PropertyCollector to filter what properties may be in result vSphere Documentation Center.
What about API functionality like this? vSphere Documentation Center
For example I need get only VMs with specific name or state, or any other property.
Is there such an opportunity?
Dear all
We have a vCenter plugin, which do a lot of work (calculate, create new thread ...). So I wonder does that impact much to performance of vCenter Server? Is there any document which mention about that?
Thanks for your help.
Hi all,
We are in the process of upgrading our/planning the rollout of 6.5 - currently on 5.5.
With the loophole of having the webconsole on the jetty powered service being closed - where by you could generate the console session tickets etc and chuck an (unauthenticated) user at that endpoint granting them access to the console. As this is now behind the authenticated /vsphere-client/ or /ui/ apps on the appliance this no longer works. Up until now we had been doing that and using IIS ARR to reverse proxy the requests into our infrastructure.
I have an almost working solution but need some help with generated (for the lack of a better term) and application session token aka. what ends up as the JSESSIONID in your client cookie.
I have tried generating sessions via the restful api and using that ID as the value but it doesnt seem to accept them which in a way makes sense, different systems (ish).
I am guessing i need to look into the SSO SDK but struggling with where to start - i even tried automating / mimicking the login to the various pages - following redirects and eventually posting the credentials to the SSO page so i could capture the JSESSIONID but still a work in progress/there has to be a better way.
FYI my new console proxy solution involves the standard looking URL for the new 6.5 /webconsole.html pages excepts switches out the domain for a proxy site running nginx, we also add an additional sessionid query string value and i have nginix add / append this to the reverse proxy request as well as have a set-cookie header back to the client.
Can someone point me in the right direction here/have any experience doing the same thing?
1) I have configured 2 vcenters, xx.xx.xx.180, xx.xx.xx.182, and the SSO server: xx.xx.xx.181, like this:
2) according to the programming guide(http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-60/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/sso_prog_guide_6_0.pdf ) , we can get token from sso server, like this:
3)but i can't run the demo code, i got this error:
my command line: run.bat com.vmware.sso.client.samples.AcquireBearerTokenByUserCredentialSample https://192.168.21.181/sts/STSService username passs
i don't understand why got this error, i can visit the sso url through: https://192.168.21.181/sts/STSService
finnaly i found out the reason why I got the 404 error, because of the code in demo:
Bu I don't know how to fix it..
I don't think i missed any steps, pls help me, thanks!!!
Hi, Guys,
We used to use powerCLI to collect some useful information from vSphere, and now we want to find the same information using vim25 SDK, but we are not able to find the following items.
Can anyone help to tell if they are available in SDK, if so, where can I find them?
Thanks
column1: the powerCLI command we use.
column2: the attribute we cannot find in SDK correspondingly.
column3: a sample value for this attribute from powerCLI output.
$(Get-VMHost | Where-Object {$_.ConnectionState -eq 'Connected' -and $_.Version -eq '6.0.0'} | % { $esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost $strVMHostName.Name New-Object psobject -Property @{ "strVMHostName" = $_ "hostname" = ($esxcli.system.hostname.get()).hostname "lockmode" = $esxcli.storage.vmfs.lockmode.list()}}) | ATSCompatible | FALSE |
ATSIncompatibilityReason | Device does not support ATS | |
ATSUpgradeModes | None | |
LockingMode | ATS+SCSI |
Get-Cluster | Get-VM | Sort Name | Get-HardDisk | Select Parent,Name,CapacityGB,DiskType, ScsiCanonicalName,FileName | FT -AutoSize | DiskType | Flat |
$HostVIBs = $esxcli.software.vib.list() | Where-Object {$_.Name -like "*vem*" } | Select-Object Name,Version,Vendor,ID | VEM version | v172-5.2.1.3.1.3.0-3.2.1 |
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$(Get-VM | where { $_.PowerState -eq “PoweredOn”} | %{$strVMName = $_.Name Get-Stat -Entity $_ -Stat Cpu.Ready.Summation -RealTime | Group-Object -Property MetricID | %{New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{VMName = $strVMName; MetricId = $_.Name; AvgValue = ($_.Group | Measure-Object -Property Value -Average).Average Units = ($_.Group | %{$_.Unit} | Select -Unique) -join "," } | Select VMName,MetricId,AvgValue,Units ## end new-object}} | Sort-Object -Property MetricID,AvgValue,VMName -Descending) | MetricID |
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AvgValue |
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Units | millisecond | ||
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$(Get-VMHost | Where-Object {$_.ConnectionState -eq 'Connected'} | % { $strVMHostName = $_ $esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost $strVMHostName.Name $hostname = $esxcli.system.hostname.get() | select -ExpandProperty Hostname $esxcli.storage.core.device.list() | select @{N="hostname";E={$hostname}}, Vendor, Model, Device, Size, NoofoutstandingIOswithcompetingworlds, VAAIStatus | FT -AutoSize}) | NoofoutstandingIOswithcompetingworlds | 32 |
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$(Get-VMHost | Where-Object {$_.ConnectionState -eq 'Connected'} | % { $strVMHostName = $_ $esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost $strVMHostName.Name $esxcli.system.hostname.get() | select -ExpandProperty Hostname $esxcli.system.module.parameters.list("fnic") }) | fnic_fc_trace_max_pages |
fnic_max_qdepth | 0 |
fnic_trace_max_pages | |
fnic_max_qdepth |
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fnic_trace_max_pages |
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heap_initial |
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heap_max |
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skb_mpool_initial |
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$(Get-VMHost | Where-Object {$_.ConnectionState -eq 'Connected'} | % {$strVMHostName = $_; $esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost $strVMHostName.Name $esxcli.system.hostname.get() | select -ExpandProperty Hostname;$esxcli.system.settings.advanced.list() | select Path, IntValue | where {$_.Path -eq '/DataMover/MaxHWTransferSize'}}) MetricID,AvgValue,VMHostName -Descending) | Path | /DataMover/MaxHWTransferSize |
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IntValue | 4096 |
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Hi ,
Is there a way where we can subscribe to the events and task status and vSphere can notify us when the event/task happens/completes.
My goal is to get the notifications from vSphere tasks and events , without having to poll for task/events from vSphere. I am thinking of exposing an endpoint by extending the interface from vSphere management SDK (6.0) and configure that endpoint in vSphere , and get notified on tasks and events as it happens on vSphere instead of me polling the vSphere.
I am not sure if it is possible , any help/sample/documentation is appreciated.
Thanks
-Sada
Hi,
I'm trying to get the host details related to a VM, so that I can construct a link to the Web console. Code:
if (dp.getName().equals("runtime")) { VirtualMachineRuntimeInfo runtimeInfo = (VirtualMachineRuntimeInfo) dp.getVal(); ManagedObjectReference hostInfo = runtimeInfo.getHost(); getInfoHote(hostInfo); public String getInfoHote(ManagedObjectReference hostInfo) {
ManagedObjectReference propColl = serviceContent.getPropertyCollector();
try { List<String> vmList = new ArrayList<String>(); vmList.add("HostSystem"); ManagedObjectReference cViewRef = vimPort.createContainerView(hostInfo, serviceContent.getRootFolder(), vmList, true); ObjectSpec oSpec = new ObjectSpec(); oSpec.setObj(cViewRef); oSpec.setSkip(true); TraversalSpec tSpec = new TraversalSpec(); tSpec.setName("traverseEntities"); tSpec.setPath("view"); tSpec.setSkip(false); tSpec.setType("ContainerView"); oSpec.getSelectSet().add(tSpec); PropertySpec pSpec = new PropertySpec(); pSpec.setType("HostSystem"); pSpec.getPathSet().add("config"); PropertyFilterSpec fSpec = new PropertyFilterSpec(); fSpec.getObjectSet().add(oSpec); fSpec.getPropSet().add(pSpec); List<PropertyFilterSpec> fSpecList = new ArrayList<PropertyFilterSpec>(); fSpecList.add(fSpec); RetrieveOptions ro = new RetrieveOptions(); RetrieveResult props = vimPort.retrievePropertiesEx(propColl,fSpecList,ro);
But I'm getting:
com.sun.xml.internal.ws.fault.ServerSOAPFaultException: Client received SOAP Fault from server: The request refers to an unexpected or unknown type. Please see the server log to find more detail regarding exact cause of the failure.
What I'm doing wrong?
We have installed a vCenter in PORT - 441.
We are trying to register a plugin (com.vitallabs.storApp.TasksAndEvents) for displaying Task and Events with properties: eventList, faultList, taskList
When we tried to register our plugin the resource bundle is not getting downloaded properly.
When we read virgo logs for the plugin, we came across the following lines:
[2017-08-09T12:32:51.710+05:30] [WARN ] cm-catalog-manager-pool-1704 70000427 100013 200003 com.vmware.vise.vim.cm.CmCatalogManager ResourceBundle https://10.10.2.14/catalog/com.vitallabs.storApp.TasksAndEvents_catalog.zip download failedjava.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
[2017-08-09T12:32:51.710+05:30] [INFO ] cm-catalog-manager-pool-1704 70000427 100013 200003 com.vmware.vise.vim.cm.CmCatalogManager download time (ms) for the resource bundle C:\ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\cfg\vsphere-client\cmCatalog\com.vmware.ciscom.vitallabs.storApp.TasksAndEvents.zip,https://10.10.2.14/catalog/com.vitallabs.storApp.TasksAndEvents_catalog.zip: 1082
[2017-08-09T12:32:51.710+05:30] [WARN ] cm-catalog-manager-pool-1704 70000427 100013 200003 com.vmware.vise.vim.cm.CmCatalogManager Failed to download C:\ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\cfg\vsphere-client\cmCatalog\com.vmware.ciscom.vitallabs.storApp.TasksAndEvents.zip from https://10.10.2.14/catalog/com.vitallabs.storApp.TasksAndEvents_catalog.zip
But when we tried to run the url with port number i.e., "https://10.10.2.14:441/catalog/com.vitallabs.storApp.TasksAndEvents_catalog.zip", we are able to download the Resource Bundle file.
This also perfectly works fine if vCenter is deployed in default port number.
Any idea why vCenter is not adding port number to the catalog path before downloading resource bundle?
Ciao a tutti sono un nuovo utente e sto studiando vmware. Quali sono i vantaggi nell'usare Thick Provision Eager Zeroed Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed e Thin Provision?
Perchè usare una modalità piuttosto di un'altra?
Quando è consigliabile usarle?
Dove posso trovare queste risposte in rete?
Trovo solo scritto cosa sono ma non dicono quando e perchè usare una piuttosto dell'altra
Spero in una risposta
Ciao!
I searched the SDK for a long time, but still get no luck. Could any one please give me some hints?
Thanks,
Qian
Hello, I'm trying to use the html5 sdk console from vmware to externally manage the machines, I have used the sample code and fulfilled the necessary requirements, but I am not getting success in running, it gives the following error 503.
Does anyone know how I can solve it?
503 Service Unavailable (Error connecting tunnel on named pipe: (null))
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Console</title>
</head>
<body>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/wmks-all.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.3.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.8.16/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="wmks.min.js"></script>
<div id="wmksContainer" style="position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%"></div>
<script>
var wmks = WMKS.createWMKS("wmksContainer",{})
.register(WMKS.CONST.Events.CONNECTION_STATE_CHANGE, function(event,data){
if(data.state == WMKS.CONST.ConnectionState.CONNECTED){
console.log("connection state change : connected");}
});
wmks.connect("wss://ip:443/ticket/ticketnumber");
</script>
</body>
</html>
Remember that the version of my vmware is 6.0
If someone knows how to solve thank you right away.
Hi all,
I have code that works fine with vSphere 5, 5.5 and 6.0 that will return me performance stats with no problem. As soon as I point it at a 6.5 environment I get nothing returned by any object for any counter.
I have used powershell to query the 6.5 vCenter (not an appliance) and it returns data correctly.
Is there any changes that I have missed for 6.5 which could stop me getting performance data from vCenter? It is hard for me to post code as it is entwined with some complex methods etc.
Thanks,
Paul
Hello,
There is a vCenter extension - hostdiag which sends events of type EventEx. For instance, eventTypeId – “esx.problem.scsi.device.io.latency.high” and severity field is empty string. There is no severity info in ExtensionEventTypeInfo either.
Hovewer vCenter marks those events as warnings somehow (see the attached screenshot). So how does vCenter get this information?
Hello
I just updated to PowerCLI 6.5.2 as I need access to the VMware.Vim.dll. After upgrading when I run my code it complains that VimService65.dll is not found. Before when I used version 6.5.0 there were no issues. To get this to work I needed to manually add the VimService65.dll to my project. Is this normal for this version?
In VMWare vSphere, how can I set and track the monthly bandwidth usage of each guest? I need to reduce the network speed when bandwidth usage exceeds 90% or so.
What are my options?
Hi,
Till 6.5.0 Power CLI, VMware.Vim.dll was strong name enabled dlls. But from 6.5.1, those dll's are not strongly named dll's.
In PowerShell gallery based installation also, dll's were not strongly named.
Unable to load those dll's into strongly named execution binary.
Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'VMware.Vim, Version=6.5.1.378, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one o
f its dependencies. A strongly-named assembly is required. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131044)
at VimClientTest.Program.Main(String[] args)
Hi,
I collected a list of VirtualMachineConfigInfoDatastoreUrlPair from querying the target vm, is there easy way for me to get to the actual datastore without iterating/searching through the whole inventory? Thanks in advance.
Hello
I trying to retrieve data from a standlone esxi host using c# and the vmware.vim.dll.
I am trying to do this using the Property Controller along with the TraversalSpec. The following code is what I have but when I run it I get the following:
"Additional information: A specified parameter was not correct: undefined TraversalSpec name" at the
ObjectContent[] objs =pCollector.RetrieveProperties(pFss);
Without the TraversalSpec section I can get the maxCollector value if I change the "ipAddress" to "maxCollector" but I'm trying to get the ipAddress that is within the latestEvent property.
This is just a test to see that it works. So far I cant get the TraversalSpec part to work.
Any help would be appreciated.
//fails at this point
Thanks