ruby vmware vsphere api example 1

rbvmomi_example1.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'rbvmomi'

vim = RbVmomi::VIM.connect :host => '10.60.1.71', :user => 'root', :password => 'temporal', :insecure => true

# get current time
vim.serviceInstance.CurrentTime

# get datacenter
dc = vim.serviceInstance.find_datacenter

# find VM by name, returns VirtualMachine
# http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk41pubs/ApiReference/vim.VirtualMachine.html
vm = dc.find_vm 'Nexus1000V-4.2.1.SV1.4'

# retrieve VM config info
# http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk41pubs/ApiReference/vim.vm.ConfigInfo.html
config = vm.config 

# List all VM names
vm = dc.vmFolder.childEntity.grep(RbVmomi::VIM::VirtualMachine).find do |x| 
  puts x.name
end