vGhetto

William Lamwww.virtuallyghetto.com

@lamw

vGhetto

William Lamwww.virtuallyghetto.com

@lamw

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What is vGhetto?

• Is an open source repository containing Perl and Shell scripts to help Administrators manage and automate your vSphere environment

• Started back in 2009 as a VMTN community doc and it is also hosted on Sourceforge

• Over 100+ scripts in the repository to date

• Majority of the scripts are written using vSphere SDK for Perl which relies on both the VI and vSphere APIs

• Scripts can run on any system installed with vCLI (Windows/Linux/OSX) or VMware vMA

Is an open source repository containing Perl and Shell scripts to help Administrators manage and automate your

Started back in 2009 as a VMTN community doc and it is

Over 100+ scripts in the repository to date

Majority of the scripts are written using vSphere SDK for Perl which relies on both the VI and vSphere APIs

Scripts can run on any system installed with vCLI (Windows/Linux/OSX) or VMware vMA

Motivation for vGhetto

• Reoccurring questions in automating common and advanced vSphere tasks in VMTN forums

• VMware did not have a centralized location in finding example scripts

Reoccurring questions in automating common and advanced vSphere tasks in VMTN forums

VMware did not have a centralized location in finding

Motivation for vGhetto

• Build on top of the VMware vCLIo Limited in functionality, host centric operationso Does not leverage the full capabilities of vSphere APIs

• vSphere API is very complexo Simplify with examples and share

Build on top of the VMware vCLILimited in functionality, host centric operationsDoes not leverage the full capabilities of vSphere APIs

Simplify with examples and share

vSphere Administrator Tasks

• Fault Tolerance Management• VAAI & SIOC Management• Extracting ESX(i) WWPN• Extracting VM MAC Addresses• Thin Provisioning/Utilization reporting • RDM Management• RDM Management• ISO Management• Floppy Management • Disk Management• vApp operations (Linked Cloning vApps)• Hardware and Health monitoring• Reporting• Virtual Machine screenshots • Create Linked Clones

vSphere Administrator Tasks

Extracting VM MAC AddressesThin Provisioning/Utilization reporting

vApp operations (Linked Cloning vApps)Hardware and Health monitoring

Creating Linked Clone using vSphere API

• Traditionally available through Lab Manager & View

Creating Linked Clone using vSphere API

Traditionally available through Lab Manager & View

my $relocate_spec =VirtualMachineRelocateSpec->new(datastore => $ds_info{mor},

host => $host_view,diskMoveType => "createNewChildDiskBacking",

Creating Linked Clone using vSphere API

• Introduced in vSphere 4.0 API

diskMoveType => "createNewChildDiskBacking",pool => $comp_res_view

my $clone_spec = VirtualMachineCloneSpec

$vm_view ->CloneVM_Task(folder => $vm_viewname => Opts::get_option('vmname_destination'),spec => $clone_spec);

>new(datastore => $ds_info{mor},host => $host_view,diskMoveType => "createNewChildDiskBacking",

Creating Linked Clone using vSphere API

diskMoveType => "createNewChildDiskBacking",pool => $comp_res_view->resourcePool);

my $clone_spec = VirtualMachineCloneSpec->new( .....);

(folder => $vm_view->parent,name => Opts::get_option('vmname_destination'),

vSphere Health Check Report

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC

vSphere Health Check Report

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9842

• Snapshots• Mounted CD-ROM• VMware Tools version• ..... and much much more!

vSphere Security Hardening Report

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC

vSphere Security Hardening Report

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-11901

What makes this all possible?

• Power of the vSphere API• Speak SOAP, you can talk to the vSphere API

What makes this all possible?

Speak SOAP, you can talk to the vSphere API

Anything you can do in vSphere Client, you can do using the vSphere API ( almost - 99.9%)

The vSphere API is not just for developers, administrators can use it too

Take home message:

The vSphere API is platform agnostic, as long as you can speak SOAP, you can talk to vSphere

Anything you can do in vSphere Client, you can do using the

The vSphere API is not just for developers, administrators can

The vSphere API is platform agnostic, as long as you can speak SOAP, you can talk to vSphere

More Information

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOChttp://sourceforge.net/projects/vghetto/http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9852http://sourceforge.net/projects/vghetto/

Thank You

Congratulations to Steve Congratulations to Steve for VI Java's 3rd Anniversary!

Thank You

Congratulations to Steve Congratulations to Steve for VI Java's 3rd Anniversary!