Question

Trying and trying to do something very simple in fog 1.9 with the vsphere provider. The examples in the little documentation there is not working for me.

I want to list all VMs in a folder. Simple eh?

Tried…

credentials = {
    :provider => "vsphere",
    :vsphere_username => user,
    :vsphere_password=> pass,
    :vsphere_server => "vc_name",
    :vsphere_ssl    => true,
    :vsphere_expected_pubkey_hash => "1466f20c1b3f990a2a018dc2ca22a79fc2d0284ab4aac534c47blah"
}

compute = Fog::Compute.new(credentials)
vms = compute.servers.all('folder' => '/Datacenters/Ewl/Self-Service')

pp vms

This connects and churns away and RETURNS ALL VMs IN THE DATACENTER and not just the folder. Grr.

I’ve tried lots of variations on the folder variable e.g.

vms = compute.servers.all('folder' => '/Hosts & Clusters/Ewl1_vm/Self-Service')
vms = compute.servers.all('folder' => 'Self-Service')
vms = compute.servers.all('folder' => 'Self-Service','datacenter' => 'Ewl')

But all do the same thing.

I’ve worked through the code and it’s not helped me really.

Help!

Answer 1

If I’m understanding what your datacenter and folder name are, then the simple way to do this is:

vms = compute.list_virtual_machines(datacenter: 'Ewl', folder: 'Self-Service')

‘folder’ in the .servers.all filter hypothetically should work, but you are bound to find surprises with hidden paths, more than 1 datacenter, etc.