I saw a new bug (Intermittent ManagedObjectNotFound on VirtualMachine.getConf) filed in the open source VI Java API project today:
It looks like sometimes VirtualMachine.getConfig() returns null, but other times it throws:
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.vmware.vim25.ManagedObjectNotFound
at com.vmware.vim25.mo.ManagedObject.retrieveObjectProperties(ManagedObject.java:158)
at com.vmware.vim25.mo.ManagedObject.getCurrentProperty(ManagedObject.java:179)
at com.vmware.vim25.mo.VirtualMachine.getConfig(VirtualMachine.java:55)
As the vSphere API reference points out, Read more... (441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)
As we know Folder is a container object in vSphere. It’s used to hold other managed objects in a similar way as directory holding files in an OS. There is an interesting question asking in VI Java API forum on how to tell whether a folder is vmFolder or hostFolder. BTW, you don’t see these two folders displayed in vSphere Client.
The questioner guessed correctly that you can find out by a folder’s childType property. Here is the documentation in API reference on the possible values of the childType property: Read more... (353 words, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)
In yesterday’s blog, I talked about a little known secret of vSphere MOB – the invisible embedded XML in the HTML pages. To take advantage of the secret, I created a client side REST API which was shipped in VI Java API 2.0. Read more... (937 words, 2 images, estimated 3:45 mins reading time)
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