Comments on: Introducing A Tiny Yet Powerful API to Manage and Automate vSphere

By: Fixed a Bug in Client REST API | DoubleCloud.org

Fixed a Bug in Client REST API | DoubleCloud.org — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 05:01:01 +0000

[...] by the open source VI Java API community, a bug came to my attention. It’s related to the Client REST API which is a powerful hack with vSphere MOB based on a little secret. Started in vSphere 4.1 update 1, [...]

By: Tagging: What’s the Alternative? | DoubleCloud.org

Tagging: What’s the Alternative? | DoubleCloud.org — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:06:13 +0000

[...] not the officially supported way (BTW, this should not be taken as show stopper. After all, the Client REST API in VI Java API 2.0 is based on MOB). It subjects to change in the future. The ideal way is via [...]

By: Steve Jin

Steve Jin — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:00:31 +0000

Unfortunately there is no such XML. You can however use PropertyCollector to grab all the VMs and their names.

Steve

By: Juno

Juno — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:48:37 +0000

Hello Steve,
Is there some kind of xml file under the api that gathers all the vms moid against their real names?
I mean, is there a less expensive way to collect all the machines names besides going through every machine xml (via moid) and than to get its name field?

By: Steve Jin

Steve Jin — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:50:49 +0000

Sorry about it. Sourceforge has technical issue recently. I think Hudson project has a copy on its website. You can search it there – you need source jar for sample code.

-Steve

By: Bar

Bar — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:24:29 +0000

Thanks a lot for your help!
where can I find the code samples under
http://vijava.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vijava/trunk/src/com/vmware/vim25/mo/samples/ ?
The webpage is not available.

By: Steve Jin

Steve Jin — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:40:02 +0000

OK. From your description, you’ve found the problem of too many sessions. I have a post discussing session management, just search for it.
You can actually, and should, re-use a session for many managed objects. Good luck!
Steve

By: Bar

Bar — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:06:27 +0000

I’m using vcenter 4.0 and it licensed.
I have a client installed on my machine and it talks with remote server.
For every vms it opens a connection with restClient to extract the xml.
Every 15 min the client rescan the vms to see if the file has changed.
The problem is that every rescan new sessions are opened (for already scanned vms) and after a couple of scans of the client I have 598 open session and the server locks itself.
I thought the cookie in the restClient should trace existing sessions, but somehow it fails in my case.
I read that in vcenter 4.0 there is a limit on the number of opened connections.

thanks

By: Steve Jin

Steve Jin — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:47:24 +0000

I don’t know a limit like that. What version of vCenter/ESX(i) do you have and talk to? Are they licensed?
-Steve

By: Bar

Bar — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:54:35 +0000

Hello Steve,
I have the following problem:
I have 170 vms and I’m trying to get all the vm’s xml.
After a couple of restClient calls the server locks itself.
Is there a limit of restclient calls?

thanks