RbVviews

This is a Ruby class that leverages (RbVmomi) to issue lookups based on settings per VC object and return detailed views that contain methods and variables. For example, you can look up the instanceUuid of a Virtual Machine and the class returns the VM object.

The behavior is modeled from Get-View from PowerCLI.

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Install

gem install RbVviews

Requirements

Ruby 1.8.7+
RbVmomi

Ruby Example

require 'RbVviews'

vc_view = RbVviews.new("vcenter01.brswh.local","root","vmware")
vc_view.connect
vm = vc_view.get_view('VirtualMachine','config.instanceUuid','5038de0a-a3cf-8779-3c4c-d481b54876a9')
puts vm[0].obj.name

PowerCLI Equivalent Example

Connect-VIServer -server vcenter01.brswh.local -username root -password vmware
$vm = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Filter @{"config.instanceuuid"="5038de0a-a3cf-8779-3c4c-d481b54876a9"}
Write-Host $vm.name