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April 13, 2015 15:09
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This is a quick and dirty sample that shows how to go from a VM's name to a mac address by using the inventory path (more robust than a simple name)
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| def test_vm_to_mac(self): | |
| si = connect.SmartConnect(host='vcsa', | |
| user='my_user', | |
| pwd='my_password') | |
| content = si.RetrieveContent() | |
| # where the name of the VM is 'box' | |
| vm = content.searchIndex.FindByInventoryPath("Datacenter0/vm/box") | |
| self.assertEqual(vm.name, 'box') | |
| nics = [dev for dev in vm.config.hardware.device | |
| if isinstance(dev, vim.vm.device.VirtualEthernetCard)] | |
| self.assertEqual(nics[0].macAddress, '00:50:56:82:28:7d') |
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Note the line...
... is nice because it doesn't care about data types, only MAC addresses.