Comments on: Easy VMware Development with VI Java API and Groovy

By: Hire PHP Developer

Hire PHP Developer — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:49:00 +0000

Hey Aaron, Nicely done. Thanks for clear and descriptive explanation with sample code.

By: Srini.T

Srini.T — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:04:45 +0000

I have one datacenter(DC), 2 ESX servers(ESX-1 and ESX-2), and 4 VM instances(vm1, vm2, vm3, vm4).
vm1 and vm2 are in ESX-1 and vm3 and vm4 are in ESX-2, Both ESX-1 and ESX-2 are in DC.

Usning the following VIJava API cmd we can get all VM instance information in a DataCenter.
"ManagedEntity[] vms = new InventoryNavigator(rootFolder).searchManagedEntities(new String[][] { {"VirtualMachine", "name" }, }, true);"

Usning the following VIJava API cmd we can get all Hosts information in a DataCenter.
"ManagedEntity[] hosts = new InventoryNavigator(rootFolder).searchManagedEntities(new String[][] { {"HostSystem", "name" }, }, true);"

My question is I have vm1 VirualMachine obj, how can i get this vm HostIP(I mean ESX-1 IP)??

By: lundvall

lundvall — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:13:00 +0000

Ops, did not see the other comments. Sorry.

By: lundvall

lundvall — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:12:00 +0000

def si = new ServiceInstance(“https://ipAddress/sdk”.toURL(), “administrator”, “password”, true)

def si = new ServiceInstance(new URL(“https://ipAddress/sdk”), “administrator”, “password”, true)

By: Guillaume Laforge

Guillaume Laforge — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:06:00 +0000

Sorry, I thought we supported this notation. Either you can use new URL(“…”) or use “…”.toURL()

By: Sakuraba

Sakuraba — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:13:45 +0000

org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.typehandling.GroovyCastException: Cannot cast object '…' with class 'java.lang.String' to class 'java.net.URL'

By: Sakuraba

Sakuraba — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:16:00 +0000

Instead of “as URL” I just used “toUrl()” on the String object and it worked

By: Aaron Sweemer

Aaron Sweemer — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:59:16 +0000

Hi Steve,

Thank you for the comment and for promoting the post on http://www.doublecloud.org. Very much appreciated!!

– Aaron

By: Steve Jin

Steve Jin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:48:11 +0000

Great jobs Aaron, Guillaume!

I've included this article in the FAQ of the VI Java API website:
http://vijava.sourceforge.net/faq.php

Also promoted it as my blogsite: http://www.doublecloud.org.

We stilll need tutorials on other languages like Scala.

-Steve

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