Incomplete list of VMs returned with ls

[stv-io]

I'm not sure if this is a case of RTFM (or lack thereof) but it seems that when I try and get a list of all VMs, the number of machines returned is not the total number of machines in the Datacentre.

To reproduce (tried it on different instances / datacentres)

[~] govc ls -l '*' | grep "VirtualMachine" |wc -l
     170

(should be 228, vcentre 6.5)

[~] govc ls -l '*' | grep "VirtualMachine" |wc -l
     96

(should be 124, vcentre 5.5)

Is this a govc issue? Or a human error?

Alternatively,

[~] govc ls /<DC name>/vm | wc -l returns 177 (for the first cluster)

[stv-io]

further update, same information is returned from datacentre.info

[~] govc datacenter.info
Name:                Name
  Path:              Path
  Hosts:             9
  Clusters:          2
  Virtual Machines:  170
  Networks:          13
  Datastores:        18

[dougm]

ls does not recurse into folders by default. You can use one of:

% govc ls -t VirtualMachine /...
% govc find / -type m

The datacenter.info command does need fixing, let's leave this issue open for that.