vcenter library
Use your vCenter credentials to ask for properties of any VM.
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'vcenter_lib'And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install vcenter_lib
Usage
require 'pp'
require 'benchmark'
require_relative 'lib/vcenter_lib'
options = {}
options[:username] = 'my_user@vcenter'
options[:password] = 'my_secret_password'
options[:vcenter_url] = 'vcenter01.ds.my_vcenter.com'
options[:insecure] = true # you might need this
@vcenter = VcenterLib::Vcenter.new(options)
@vm_converter = VcenterLib::VmConverter.new(@vcenter)
puts 'get properties for certain VM'
vm = nil
time = Benchmark.realtime do
pp vm = @vcenter.find_vm('my_server.my_company.com')
pp @vm_converter.convert_vm_mor_to_h(vm)
end
puts "run for #{time} seconds"
puts 'get properties for all VMs'
vms = nil
time = Benchmark.realtime do
pp (vms = @vm_converter.convert_vm_mobs_to_attr_hash(@vcenter.vms)).size
end
pp vms
puts "run for #{time} seconds"
Development
After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.
Contributing
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/m-31/vcenter_lib.
License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.