{"id":258,"date":"2010-09-19T22:45:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T04:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benincosa.com\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2014-11-19T11:25:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T17:25:59","slug":"vmware-api-code-to-mount-nfs-datastore-on-esx-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"VMware API code to mount NFS Datastore on ESX host."},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I posted this to the VMware user group<\/a> today I figured I might as well post this to my blog as well:<\/p>\n

Lets say you have a datastore 10.3.0.101 that has a mount point \/install\/vm directory. You want to mount that datastore onto host vhost04 so you can start creating VMs. Here is how it is done:<\/p>\n

[cc lang=’perl’]
\nuse Data::Dumper;
\nrequire VMware::VIRuntime;
\nVMware::VIRuntime->import();
\nuse strict;<\/p>\n

# log into a node:
\nmy $conn;
\nmy $esx = shift || ‘vhost04’;
\nmy $server = ‘10.3.0.101’;
\nmy $serverpath = ‘\/install\/vm’;
\nmy $location = ‘nfs_10.3.0.101_install_vm’;<\/p>\n

eval {
\n$conn = Vim->new(service_url=>”https:\/\/$esx\/sdk”);
\n$conn->login(user_name=>’root’,password=>’c1ust3r’);
\n};
\nif($@){
\nprint Dumper($@);
\nprint $@->;fault_string . “\\n”;
\n}<\/p>\n

my $hv = $conn->find_entity_view(view_type => ‘HostSystem’);<\/p>\n

my $nds = HostNasVolumeSpec->new(accessMode=>’readWrite’,
\nremoteHost=>$server,
\nlocalPath=>$location,
\nremotePath=>$serverpath);
\nmy $dsmv = $hv->{vim}->get_view(mo_ref=>$hv->configManager->datastoreSystem);<\/p>\n

eval {
\n$dsmv->CreateNasDatastore(spec=>$nds);
\n};<\/p>\n

if ($@) {
\nprint $@->fault_string . “\\n”;
\nprint Dumper($@);
\n}<\/p>\n

$conn->logout;
\n[\/cc]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I posted this to the VMware user group today I figured I might as well post this to my blog as well: Lets say you have a datastore 10.3.0.101 that has a mount point \/install\/vm directory. You want to mount that datastore onto host vhost04 so you can start creating VMs. Here is how…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74,101,39],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2810,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/2810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benincosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}