| From: "A. Rich" <[email protected]> | | Specifically, something that is aware of what physical host that a vm resides | on so that it can tie into things like being able to track serial console | access, hardware contract numbers, PDU/network/fibre/rack allocation etc, and | know when a machine relocates using vmotion or other similar technology.
I recently built some scripts that run on vmware ESX hosts and gather bits of information, using "vmware-vim-cmd". You can get information about which VMs are on the host, resource usage, current configuration and so on. My idea was to gather up all the guest information from the ESX hosts to a central location, and then I could summarize or play with the guest information from there. e.g. know what's where, configured with how much memory and disk, using what resources, etc. But that's from the ESX host side of the equation, rather than from the guest. And the name (for example) of the guest on the ESX side might not match what the machine calls itself, but can cause some confusion. I don't know how to get information from the guest side, but I wonder if the open-vm-tools (open-vm-tools.sourceforge.net) package might provide some clues. Of course, that may not help you on Windows ... Hope these little nuggets help a bit .. John _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
