Searching for Networks

[Tim Lemm]

Hi There was hoping I could get some help with some issues I have been having.

I am fairly new to psphere so this my be ignorance on my part.

If I search for All virtual machines on a client

vms = VirtualMachine.all(client)

It returns all machines on that vSphere server.

However if I search for all Networks on that vSphere server

nets = Network.all(client)

Nothing is returned even though there are networks on the server.
I am able to locate them by Finding my Datacenter and then off the dc get the networks

dcs = Datacenter.all(client)
dc = dcs[0]
nets = dc.network
for net in nets:
   print net.name
   print str(net.summary)

That will return both my networks and my distributedvirtualportgroups and generic networks but it still doesnt return my DistributedVirtualSwitchs

Any thoughts or help on this?

Thanks

[Michael Rice]

You might want to take a look at this: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/05/introduction-to-the-vsphere-api-part-3-inventory-hierarchy.html 

And to get the dvs info I think youre going to want to look into dvSwitchManager http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.ServiceInstanceContent.html

-mike