Managing VMware Infrastructure using VMware APIs

VMworld Barcelona 2012

`whoami`

Basics 24h managing a VMware Infrastructure

Real use cases compiled in a day

`whoami`

Francois Loiseau
VCP5 SysAdmin R&D & Cloud

OVH
Big VMware infrastructures High automation level

VMware Users
Linux / Windows / Solaris / Web team Dev team Customers Sysadmins

VMware Administrator
Linux / Windows VMware world Storage: Storage Team Network: Network Team Security: Security Team (Quality) VMware administrators to serve the company

VMware Infrastructures
Self provisionned
Internal cloud

Customer provisonned
vSphere As A Service privateCloud hosting

VMware APIs
vSphere
Perl / Java / powerCli

vCloud
REST

Several ways to do it

VMware vSphere SDK for Perl

Any platform
Download from:
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/sdk_pubs.html

Untar and copy:

vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib/lib/VMware/share/VMware

To:
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0/

Connexion sample
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Data::Dumper; use VMware::VIRuntime; # Auth options Opts::set_option('server', myvCenter'); Opts::set_option('username', myUser'); Opts::set_option('password', myPassw0rd!');

print "Connecting \n"; Util::connect(); print "Connected \n"; # # [ Well make actions there ] #

Util::disconnect(); print "Disconnected \n";

Network team alerts

Sep 20 08:59:44 sw1.corp : 2012 Sep 20 08:59:21 CEST: %FWM-6-MAC_MOVE_NOTIFICATION: Host 0050.5612.1234 in vlan 1111 is flapping between port Po30 and port Po31 Sep 20 08:59:44 sw1.corp : 2012 Sep 20 08:59:21 CEST: %FWM-6-MAC_MOVE_NOTIFICATION: Host 0050.5612.1234 in vlan 1111 is flapping between port Po30 and port Po31 Sep 20 08:59:44 sw1.corp : 2012 Sep 20 08:59:21 CEST: %FWM-6-MAC_MOVE_NOTIFICATION: Host 0050.5612.1234 in vlan 1111 is flapping between port Po31 and port Po30 Sep 20 08:59:44 sw2.corp : 2012 Sep 20 08:59:21 CEST: %FWM-6-MAC_MOVE_NOTIFICATION: Host 0050.5612.1234 in vlan 1111 is flapping between port Po31 and port Po30 Sep 20 08:59:44 sw2.corp : 2012 Sep 20 08:59:21 CEST: %FWM-6-MAC_MOVE_NOTIFICATION: Host 0050.5612.1234 in vlan 1111 is flapping between port Po30 and port Po31 Sep 20 08:59:44 sw1.corp : 2012 Sep 20 08:59:21 CEST: %FWM-6-MAC_MOVE_NOTIFICATION: Host 0050.5612.1234 in vlan 1111 is flapping between port Po31

9 AM

Quick diagnosis
HA Failure
VM powered on 2 hosts

Same mac set on both VMs

? Both VMs ?

Quick diagnosis
Vlan segmentation / CMDB
vcenter201

Let us find it quickly

my $mac = "00:50:56:12:12:34"; my $DatacenterView = Vim::find_entity_view( 'view_type' => 'Datacenter', 'filter' => { 'name' => 'myDatacenter', } ); my $VMViews = Vim::find_entity_views( 'view_type' => 'VirtualMachine', 'begin_entity' => $DatacenterView, ); foreach my $VMView (@$VMViews) { foreach my $Device (@{$VMView->config->hardware->device}) { if(exists $Device->{'macAddress'} and $Device->{'macAddress'} eq $mac) { print $VMView->summary->config->name . \n; } } }

Let us find it quickly

Connecting Connected Getting Datacenter view Got Datacenter View Web001 Web123 Disconnected

10AM
Storage maintenance planed
Storage team question : May I shut this LUN tomorrow ? I need to rack this SAN somewhere else.

VM running on this Datastore solved

Next? Iso from this datastore not used anymore?

Quick diagnosis
Storage definition / CMDB
vcenter197 vcenter134 vcenter026

Let us find it quickly

my $DatacenterView = Vim::find_entity_view( 'view_type' => 'Datacenter', 'filter' => { 'name' => 'myDatacenter', } ); my $VMViews = Vim::find_entity_views( 'view_type' => 'VirtualMachine', 'begin_entity' => $DatacenterView , 'properties' => [ 'config.hardware.device', 'summary.config.name', ] ); my $datastore = "templates"; foreach my $VMView (@{ $VMViews }) { foreach my $Device (@{$VMView->{'config.hardware.device'}}) { if (ref( $Device ) eq "VirtualCdrom") {
if ($Device->deviceInfo->summary =~ /^ISO/ && $Device->deviceInfo->summary =~ $datastore)

{
print $VMView->{'summary.config.name'} . is using . $Device->deviceInfo->summary . \n;

} }

}
}

Let us find it quickly

vCenter134 Connecting Connected Getting Datacenter view Got Datacenter View vpn-upgrade is using ISO [templates] iso/RIPLinux-11.3-non-X.iso share is using ISO [templates] iso/gparted-live-0.7.1-1.iso Oracle-11g-1b is using ISO [templates] iso/oracleLinux32.iso Disconnected vCenter197 Connecting Connected Getting Datacenter view Got Datacenter View Disconnected vCenter026 Connecting Connected Getting Datacenter view Got Datacenter View Disconnected

Win
\o/

2 PM
Security team email :
Dear administrators, We are suspecting unauthorized access to our infrastructures last 3 months. Could you please send us all authentifications / login on VMware front based on this template: Date ; User ; IP From.

Database retention policy

Let us find it quickly

# Getting Event Manager my $EventManager = Vim::get_view('mo_ref' => Vim::get_service_content()->eventManager); my $EventFilterSpecByEntity = EventFilterSpecByEntity->new( 'entity' => Vim::get_service_content()->rootFolder(), 'recursion' => EventFilterSpecRecursionOption->new('all'), ); my $EventFilterSpec = EventFilterSpec->new( 'entity' => $EventFilterSpecByEntity, ); my $EventHistoryCollector = $EventManager->CreateCollectorForEvents('filter' => $EventFilterSpec);

Let us find it quickly

my $biggestEventChainId = 0 ; while(1) { my $EventHistoryCollectorView = Vim::get_view('mo_ref' => $EventHistoryCollector); my @latestPage = @{ $EventHistoryCollectorView->latestPage }; for (my $eventId = scalar @latestPage ; $eventId >= 0 ; $eventId--) { my $createdTime = exists ( $latestPage[$eventId]->{'createdTime'} ) ? getDate($latestPage[$eventId]->createdTime) my $username = exists ( $latestPage[$eventId]->{'userName'}) ? $latestPage[$eventId]->userName my $fullFormattedMsg = exists ( $latestPage[$eventId]->{'fullFormattedMessage'} ) ? encode('UTF8' ,$latestPage[$eventId]->fullFormattedMessage) my $task = exists ( $latestPage[$eventId]->{'info'}->{'task'}->{'value'} ) ? $latestPage[$eventId]->info->task->value my $status = exists ( $latestPage[$eventId]->{'info'}->{'state'}->{'val'}) ? $latestPage[$eventId]->info->state->val my $eventChainId = exists ( $latestPage[$eventId]->{'chainId'} ) ? $latestPage[$eventId]->chainId if ($eventChainId > $biggestEventChainId) { chomp($fullFormattedMsg); print $createdTime . "|" . $fullFormattedMsg . "|" . $task . $biggestEventChainId = $eventChainId; } } }

: "X"; : "X";
: "X";

: "X"; : "X"; : "X";

"|" . $username . "|" . $status . "\n"

On Syslog
Fri Sep 12 11:22:42 2012|vcenter012|Fri Sep 12 11:22:42 2012|User John logged out|X|John|X Fri Sep 12 11:23:52 2012|vcenter012|Fri Sep 12 11:23:52 2012|User John@192.168.0.6 logged in|X|John|X Fri Sep 12 11:23:52 2012|vcenter012|Fri Sep 12 11:23:52 2012|User John logged out|X|John|X Fri Sep 12 11:25:33 2012|vcenter012|Fri Sep 12 11:25:33 2012|User Corp\vscope@172.16.2.2 logged in|X|vscope|X Fri Sep 12 11:25:59 2012|vcenter012|Fri Sep 12 11:25:59 2012|User Franck@46.105.137.3 logged in|X|Franck|X Fri Sep 12 11:26:02 2012|vcenter012|Fri Sep 12 11:26:02 2012|User John@172.16.2.2 logged in|X|John|X Fri Sep 12 11:26:02 2012|vcenter012|Fri Sep 12 11:26:02 2012|User John logged out|X|John|X

Let us find it quickly

# Getting Task Manager my $TaskManagerView = Vim::get_view('mo_ref' => Vim::get_service_content()->taskManager); my $TaskFilterSpecByEntity = TaskFilterSpecByEntity->new( 'entity' => Vim::get_service_content()->rootFolder(), 'recursion' => TaskFilterSpecRecursionOption->new('all'), ); my $TaskFilterSpec = TaskFilterSpec->new( 'entity' => $TaskFilterSpecByEntity, ); my $TaskHistoryCollector = $TaskManagerView->CreateCollectorForTasks( 'filter' => $TaskFilterSpec );

Let us find it quickly

my $biggestTaskChainId = 0 ; while (1) { my $TaskHistoryCollectorView = Vim::get_view('mo_ref' => $TaskHistoryCollector); my @latestPage = @{ $TaskHistoryCollectorView->latestPage }; for (my $taskId = scalar @latestPage ; $taskId >= 0 ; $taskId--) { my $startTime = exists ( $latestPage[$taskId]->{'startTime'} ) my $completeTime = exists ( $latestPage[$taskId]->{'completeTime'} ) my $entityName = exists ( $latestPage[$taskId]->{'entityName'} ) my $eventChainId = exists ( $latestPage[$taskId]->{'eventChainId'} ) my $task = exists ( $latestPage[$taskId]->{'task'}->{'value'} ) my $name = exists ( $latestPage[$taskId]->{'name'}) my $descriptionId = exists ( $latestPage[$taskId]->{'descriptionId'} ) my $username = exists ( $latestPage[$taskId]->{'reason'}->{'userName'}) my $status = exists ( $latestPage[$taskId]->{'state'}->{'val'}) if ($eventChainId > $biggestTaskChainId) {
print $startTime . "|" . $completeTime . "|" . $task . "|" . $entityName . "|" . $name . "|" . $descriptionId . "|" . $username . "|" . $status . "\n" $biggestTaskChainId = $eventChainId; } ;

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

getDate($latestPage[$taskId]->startTime) getDate($latestPage[$taskId]->completeTime) $latestPage[$taskId]->entityName $latestPage[$taskId]->eventChainId $latestPage[$taskId]->task->value $latestPage[$taskId]->name $latestPage[$taskId]->descriptionId $latestPage[$taskId]->reason->userName $latestPage[$taskId]->state->val

: : : : : : : : :

"X"; "X"; "X"; "X"; "X"; "X"; "X"; "X"; "X";

} }

On Syslog
Fri Sep 12 06:51:05 2012|vcenter012|Fri Sep 12 06:51:05 2012|Fri Sep 12 06:51:06 2012|task-13515|Centres de donnes|X|com.vmware.vcIntegrity.CheckNotificationTask|X|success Fri Sep 12 07:01:19 2012|vcenter012|Fri Sep 12 07:01:19 2012|Fri Sep 12 07:01:28 2012|task-13516|nas001223|RefreshDatastoreStorageInfo|Datastore.refreshStorageInfo|Franck|success Fri Sep 12 07:10:55 2012|vcenter012|Fri Sep 12 07:10:55 2012|Fri Sep 12 07:10:57 2012|task-13517|nas000268|RefreshDatastoreStorageInfo|Datastore.refreshStorageInfo|Franck|success Fri Sep 12 11:26:16 2012|vcenter012|Fri Sep 12 11:26:16 2012|Fri Sep 12 11:26:16 2012|task-13525|DatacenterRBX|PowerOnMultiVM_Task|Datacenter.powerOnVm|John|success Fri Sep 12 11:26:24 2012|vcenter012|Fri Sep 12 11:26:24 2012|Task: Reconfigure virtual machine|task-13527|John|queued Fri Sep 12 11:26:24 2012|vcenter012|Fri Sep 12 11:26:24 2012|X|task-13527|NFS99|ReconfigVM_Task|VirtualMachine.reconfigure|John|running Fri Sep 12 11:26:39 2012|vcenter012|Fri Sep 12 11:26:39 2012|X|task-13528|Oracle121b|PowerOffVM_Task|VirtualMachine.powerOff|John|running Fri Sep 12 11:26:59 2012|vcenter012|Fri Sep 12 11:26:59 2012|X|task-13529|Oracle121b|Destroy_Task|VirtualMachine.destroy|John|running

Win
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4 PM
Web team post-production challenges
All VMs with snapshots

Quick diagnosis
Storage definitions / CMDB vCenter definitions
vcenter201 vcenter035 vcenter138

My tought
Get on all web team Filers vmdk & date
find /directory-* |grep .vmdk|grep 0000 |nawk '{FS="\n" ; print $1}' |xargs -i ls -al {}

List all VMs

Let us find it quickly

my $DatacenterView = Vim::find_entity_view( 'view_type' => 'Datacenter', 'filter' => { 'name' => 'myDatacenter', } );

my $VMViews = Vim::find_entity_views( 'view_type' => 'VirtualMachine', 'begin_entity' => $DatacenterView , ); my $listVm; my $snapshots; my $ret; foreach my $VMView (@$VMViews) { # Checking if VM got at least 1 snapshot if ($VMView->snapshot) { foreach my $snap (@{$VMView->snapshot->rootSnapshotList}) { $ret = _getAllSnapshots( 'snap' => $snap , 'snapshots' => $snapshots ); $listVm->{$VMView->name} = $ret; } } }

print Dumper $listVm;

# Recursive Sub to list all snaps sub _getAllSnapshots { my %params = @_; my $snap = $params{'snap'}; my $snapshots = $params{'snapshots'}; my my my my ($date1,$date2)= split /T/, $snap->createTime; ($year,$mon,$day) = split /-/, $date1; ($hrs,$min,$sec ) = split /:/, $date2; $createdTime = timegm($sec, $min, $hrs, $day, $mon-1, $year-1900);

# filling result my $snapHash = { 'name' => $snap->name , 'date' => $createdTime, 'desc' => $snap->description }; push @$snapshots , $snapHash; # and go on if ($snap->childSnapshotList) { foreach my $snapChild (@{$snap->childSnapshotList}) {
my $ret = _getAllSnapshots('snap' => $snapChild , 'snapshots' => $snapshots);

}
} return $snapshots; }

Let us find it quickly

Connecting Connected Getting Datacenter view Got Datacenter View $VAR1 = { Web142' => [ { 'desc' 'date' 'name' }, ], Web212' => [ { 'desc' 'date' 'name' }, ], Web123' => [ { 'desc' 'date' 'name' }, ], }; Disconnected => Before Uprgade', => 1317970514, => snap1'

=> Before Uprgade', => 1317970632, => snap1'

=> Before Uprgade', => 1317970312, => snap1'

Win
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5 PM
Customer request
Notify me on whats going on my infrastructure

Solutions
Send email ? Syslog ?

Let do this
my $msg = User John created on this vCenter. Access has been granted to this Datacenter. We are going to log everything; my $EventManager = Vim::get_view( 'mo_ref' => Vim::get_service_content()->eventManager ); $EventManager->LogUserEvent( 'entity' => $DatacenterView, 'msg' => $msg );

Win
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11 PM
Host Failure

Host 192.168.2.51 pings Failed to ping HARDWARE DRS TRIGGERED Getting Host spare Adding VMKernel Adding Host to inventory Adding networks Adding filers Done

Howto ?
Detection
my $host = "192.168.2.51"; eval { my $ping = 1; while ($ping) { `/bin/ping -c 1 $host`; if ($? != 0) { $ping = 0; last; } sleep 1; print "Host $host pings\n"; } alarm(0); }; print "Failed to ping\n"; print "Getting Hosts spare \n ";

Howto ?
Adding IP to Host
my $vmkernelIp = "192.168.2.53"; my $vmkernelNetmask = "255.255.254.0"; my $vlanId = "1234";

my $HostSystemView = Vim::find_entity_view( 'view_type' => 'HostSystem' ); my $NetworkSystemView = Vim::get_view( 'mo_ref' => $HostSystemView->configManager->networkSystem );

my $HostPortGroupSpec = HostPortGroupSpec->new( 'name' => "VMKernel", 'vlanId' => $vlanId, 'vswitchName' => "vSwitch0", 'policy' => HostNetworkPolicy->new(), ); $NetworkSystemView->AddPortGroup( 'portgrp' => $HostPortGroupSpec );

Howto ?
Adding IP to Host
my $HostIpConfig = HostIpConfig->new( 'dhcp' => 'false', 'ipAddress' => $vmkernelIp, 'subnetMask' => $vmkernelNetmask ); my $HostVirtualNicSpec = HostVirtualNicSpec->new( 'ip' => $HostIpConfig, ); my $vnic = $NetworkSystemView->AddVirtualNic( 'portgroup' => "VMKernel", 'nic' => $HostVirtualNicSpec );

my $HostVirtualNicManager = Vim::get_view( 'mo_ref' => $HostSystemView->configManager->virtualNicManager );

$HostVirtualNicManager->SelectVnicForNicType( 'nicType' => 'vmotion', 'device' => $vnic );

Howto ?
Adding Host
my $DatacenterView = Vim::find_entity_view( 'view_type' => 'Datacenter', 'filter' => { 'name' => "Rbx" } ); my $ClusterView = Vim::find_entity_view( 'view_type' => 'ClusterComputeResource', 'begin_entity => $DatacenterView, 'filter' => { 'name' => "Cluster001" } ); $hostConnectSpec = HostConnectSpec->new( 'force' => 1, 'hostName' => $vmkernelIp, 'userName' => $hostUsername, 'password' => $hostPassword, 'sslThumbprint' => $thumbprint, ); $ClusterView->AddHost_Task( 'spec' => $hostConnectSpec, 'asConnected' => 1, 'license' => $licenseKey );

Howto ?
Adding storage
my $HostViews = Vim::find_entity_views( 'view_type' => 'HostSystem', 'begin_entity' => $DatacenterView ); my $DatastoreSystemView = Vim::get_view( 'mo_ref' => $HostView->configManager->datastoreSystem, ); my $HostNasVolumeSpec 'accessMode' 'localPath' 'remoteHost' 'remotePath' 'type' ); = HostNasVolumeSpec->new( => 'readWrite', => nas-000357, => '192.168.2.10', => /share/nas-000357', => 'NFS'

$DatastoreSystemView->CreateNasDatastore( 'spec' => $HostNasVolumeSpec );

Howto ?
Adding vlans
my $HostSystemView = Vim::find_entity_view( 'view_type' => 'HostSystem', 'filter' => {'name' => "192.168.2.53",}, ); my $HostSystemView = Vim::find_entity_view( 'view_type' => 'HostSystem' ); my $NetworkSystemView = Vim::get_view( 'mo_ref' => $HostSystemView->configManager->networkSystem, ); my $HostPortGroupSpec = HostPortGroupSpec->new( 'name' => "vlanXXX", 'vlanId' => 1234, 'vswitchName' => "vSwitch0", 'policy' => HostNetworkPolicy->new(), ); $NetworkSystemView->AddPortGroup( 'portgrp' => $HostPortGroupSpec );

Win
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2 AM
vCenter crash
Alert received

Quick diagnosis
vCenter logs
Panic: Win32 exception: Access Violation (0xc0000005) Read (0) at address 0000000000000098 Panic: Assert Failed: "openedInfo._activations == 0" @ d:/build/ob/bora340981/bora/vim/lib/vimutil/view/multiContainerView.cpp:123 Backtrace: backtrace[00] rip 000000018010a8aa Vmacore::System::Stacktrace::CaptureWork backtrace[01] rip 00000001800e8008 Vmacore::System::SystemFactoryImpl::CreateFileWriter backtrace[02] rip 00000001800e84fe Vmacore::System::SystemFactoryImpl::CreateQuickBacktrace backtrace[03] rip 0000000180129ba5 Vmacore::PanicExit backtrace[04] rip 0000000180129cb1 Vmacore::PanicExit backtrace[05] rip 000000018007669e Vmacore::RunTimeFailure backtrace[06] rip 000000013fddd883 (no symbol) backtrace[07] rip 000000013fdcae13 (no symbol) backtrace[08] rip 0000000000eef1e1 Vim::View::ListView::_GetType backtrace[09] rip 0000000000358d9c Vmomi::RuntimeFault::_GetDataType backtrace[10] rip 000000014044cf6f (no symbol) backtrace[11] rip 000000014042a672 (no symbol) backtrace[12] rip 0000000140430a08 (no symbol) backtrace[13] rip 000000018011f68d Vmacore::System::IsEnlisted backtrace[14] rip 0000000180120a6f Vmacore::System::IsEnlisted backtrace[15] rip 0000000180119df5 Vmacore::System::ThisThreadExists backtrace[16] rip 0000000073562fdf endthreadex backtrace[17] rip 0000000073563080 endthreadex backtrace[18] rip 00000000777bf56d BaseThreadInitThunk backtrace[19] rip 00000000779f3281 RtlUserThreadStart [2012-04-13
02:35:32.385 05324 panic 'App' opID=50E97826-00000154] Assert Failed: "openedInfo._activations == 0" @ d:/build/ob/bora-

340981/bora/vim/lib/vimutil/view/multiContainerView.cpp:123

Quick diagnosis
More verbose ?
C:\Users\All Users\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\vpxd.cfg <log> <level>trivia</level> </log>

Quick diagnosis
Looks better ... :)
Panic: Win32 exception: Access Violation (0xc0000005) Read (0) at address 0000000000000098 Panic: Assert Failed: "openedInfo._activations == 0" @ d:/build/ob/bora340981/bora/vim/lib/vimutil/view/multiContainerView.cpp:123 Backtrace: backtrace[00] rip 000000018010a8aa Vmacore::System::Stacktrace::CaptureWork backtrace[01] rip 00000001800e8008 Vmacore::System::SystemFactoryImpl::CreateFileWriter backtrace[02] rip 00000001800e84fe Vmacore::System::SystemFactoryImpl::CreateQuickBacktrace backtrace[03] rip 0000000180129ba5 Vmacore::PanicExit backtrace[04] rip 0000000180129cb1 Vmacore::PanicExit backtrace[05] rip 000000018007669e Vmacore::RunTimeFailure backtrace[06] rip 000000013fddd883 (no symbol) backtrace[07] rip 000000013fdcae13 (no symbol) backtrace[08] rip 0000000000eef1e1 Vim::View::ListView::_GetType backtrace[09] rip 0000000000358d9c Vmomi::RuntimeFault::_GetDataType backtrace[10] rip 000000014044cf6f (no symbol) backtrace[11] rip 000000014042a672 (no symbol) backtrace[12] rip 0000000140430a08 (no symbol) backtrace[13] rip 000000018011f68d Vmacore::System::IsEnlisted backtrace[14] rip 0000000180120a6f Vmacore::System::IsEnlisted backtrace[15] rip 0000000180119df5 Vmacore::System::ThisThreadExists backtrace[16] rip 0000000073562fdf endthreadex backtrace[17] rip 0000000073563080 endthreadex backtrace[18] rip 00000000777bf56d BaseThreadInitThunk backtrace[19] rip 00000000779f3281 RtlUserThreadStart [2012-04-13 02:42:32.385 05324 panic 'App' opID=50E97826-00000154] Assert Failed: "openedInfo._activations == 0" @ d:/build/ob/bora-340981/bora/vim/lib/vimutil/view/multiContainerView.cpp:123

Help ?
Google kb.vmware.com => S/R my.vmware.com

Solution
Quick, easy and efficient

vpxd.exe -b

Cool?

Quick diagnosis
CMDB
Storage definitions vCenter defintions Hosts definitions

Lets do it

Lets do it
I got Redis that is a Folder Working on vmAndTemplates we are on a root context
Entity is neither host neither vm neither datastore - _whatToDoWithContextAndPathForThisEntity I have to create a container (Folder) named Redis in vmAndTemplates (root) -> vmAndTemplates

_whatToDoWithContextAndPathForThisEntity Directly creating Folder in vmAndTemplates Finding view of entity Folder, named Redis beginning from vm done Applying alarms No alarms on this entity, skipping Now, looking at what's inside Folder Redis I got, from this at root, 4 direct entity
I have to move a vm named redis100 in Redis (Folder) in path vmAndTemplates/Redis

moving vm into Redis context is Folder Task to move redis100 into Redis (vmAndTemplates/Redis) started Applying alarms No alarms on this entity, skipping VM moved I have to move a vm named redis101 in Redis (Folder) in path vmAndTemplates/Redis moving vm into Redis context is Folder Task to move redis101 into Redis (vmAndTemplates/Redis) started Applying alarms No alarms on this entity, skipping VM moved
I have to move a vm named redis102 in Redis (Folder) in path vmAndTemplates/Redis

moving vm into Redis context is Folder Task to move redis102 into Redis (vmAndTemplates/Redis) started Applying alarms No alarms on this entity, skipping VM moved
I have to move a vm named redis103 in Redis (Folder) in path vmAndTemplates/Redis

moving vm into Redis context is Folder Task to move redis103 into Redis (vmAndTemplates/Redis) started Applying alarms No alarms on this entity, skipping VM moved I got SMTP that is a Folder

Finding view of entity ResourcePool, named prod beginning from Web done Applying alarms No alarms on this entity, skipping Now, looking at what's inside ResourcePool prod I got, from this at root, 2 direct entity Entity is neither host neither vm neither datastore _whatToDoWithContextAndPathForThisEntity
I have to create a container (ResourcePool) named Front in prod (ResourcePool) -> hostsAndClusters/Cluster001/Web/prod - _whatToDoWithContextAndPathForThisEntity

Using Pool prod I have to move a vm named web1057 in Front (ResourcePool) in path hostsAndClusters/Cluster001/Web/prod/Front I have to move a vm named web1058 in Front (ResourcePool) in path hostsAndClusters/Cluster001/Web/prod/Front moving vm into Front context is ResourcePool Task to move web1058 into Front (hostsAndClusters/Cluster001/Web/prod/Front) started Applying alarms No alarms on this entity, skipping VM moved I have to move a vm named web1055 in Front (ResourcePool) in path hostsAndClusters/Cluster001/Web/prod/Front moving vm into Front context is ResourcePool Task to move web1055 into Front (hostsAndClusters/Cluster001/Web/prod/Front) started Applying alarms No alarms on this entity, skipping VM moved I have to move a vm named web1040 in Front (ResourcePool) in path hostsAndClusters/Cluster001/Web/prod/Front moving vm into Front context is ResourcePool Task to move web1040 into Front (hostsAndClusters/Cluster001/Web/prod/Front) started Applying alarms No alarms on this entity, skipping

Snapshot vCenter
Takes alarms set up on entities Takes config of
Pools / Clusters / vApps

Inventory hierarchy
Folder / Clusters / Pools / vApps

All entities

Snapshot vCenter
- alarms: [] config: !!perl/hash:ResourceConfigSpec cpuAllocation: !!perl/hash:ResourceAllocationInfo expandableReservation: 1 limit: -1 reservation: 1125 shares: !!perl/hash:SharesInfo level: !!perl/hash:SharesLevel val: normal shares: 4000 memoryAllocation: !!perl/hash:ResourceAllocationInfo expandableReservation: 1 limit: -1 reservation: 125 shares: !!perl/hash:SharesInfo level: !!perl/hash:SharesLevel val: normal shares: 163840 name: Internal type: ResourcePool childs: - alarms: [] config: vmx: '[nas-000357] web100/web100.vmx' name: web100 type: vm values: [] - alarms: [] config: vmx: '[nas-000357] web101/web101.vmx' name: web101 type: vm values: []

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