Hi, Folks, In the vSphere_SDK provisioning module, I have noticed that the `_get_file_info` subroutine is really slow -- at least it is on my system.
For example, this is called when looking for *.vmx files on the datastore of running VMs. I would expect the query to take only a few seconds, but it is usually several minutes before the query returns. I have done some testing and found that the sluggishness is related to the 'query' parameter given to the HostDatastoreBrowserSearchSpec constructor. That parameter is an array of different types of objects to query. The current code appears to be remarkably comprehensive (around lines 2474 - 2525 of vSphere_SDK.pm): query => [ VmDiskFileQuery->new(...), FileQuery->new(), FloppyImageFileQuery->new(), FolderFileQuery->new(), IsoImageFileQuery->new(), VmConfigFileQuery->new(), VmLogFileQuery->new(), VmNvramFileQuery->new(), VmSnapshotFileQuery->new()] I have found that, by commenting out everything but VmDiskFileQuery, FileQuery and FolderFileQuery, I reduce the query time down to a few seconds (instead of minutes). Do any of you know why I would want vcld to query all of those other object types? Thanks! Aaron C -- Aaron Coburn Academic Technology Services, Amherst College [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
