Finding a Vsphere guest's id...

[Matthew Barr]

The below code was one of the ways I found to get the ID of a guest system in Vsphere. It doesn't seem to work if ARGV[0] has a dash in it.

Ideally, this would find the ID of a guest, then shut it off.

(Other methods seems to fail to find the ID, or set the instance_uuid. )

This code has been around for a few months so the bugs behind the initial attempt might have been fixed in Fog…

(Once it's fixed & vetted, I'm happy to contribute this to the docs for Vsphere. )

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include fog
host_name=ARGV[0]

f=Fog::Compute.new(:provider => "Vsphere" )
vm=f.get_virtual_machine(host_name)
vm["instance_uuid"] = vm["id"]
vm["force"] = true
f.vm_power_off(vm)
f.vm_destroy(vm)
----

Matthew Barr
Technical Architect
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[Bruce]

This isn't working for me in fog 1.18.0, connecting a vsphere 5.1.

irb(main):011:0> vm = f.get_virtual_machine(host)

Fog::Compute::Vsphere::NotFound: XXX.XXX.com was not found

from /opt/boxen/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/fog-1.18.0/lib/fog/vsphere/requests/compute/get_virtual_machine.rb:27:in `get_vm_ref'

from /opt/boxen/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p247/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/fog-1.18.0/lib/fog/vsphere/requests/compute/get_virtual_machine.rb:6:in `get_virtual_machine'

from (irb):11

from /opt/boxen/rbenv/versions/2.0.0-p247/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'

irb(main):012:0>

host contains just the hostname string.

Any ideas?

[Kevin Menard]

Hi Bruce,

 

Do you have multiple datacenters?  If so, you probably need to pass the one you want to search through as the second argument to that call.

 

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Kevin

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