Is there any ways to get drive information of each vmware in Vmware ESX via Vsphere SDK with Java?

Question

In my vmware esx server, I have four vmware such as Window 7, Window XP, Window Server 2008 and Window Server 2012. And drive information for each vmware:

• Window 7 -> drive C - Used 2GB, Free 2GB, Total 4GB

• Window XP -> drive C - Used 2GB, Free 2GB, Total 4GB

• Window Server 2008 -> drive C - Used 2GB, Free 2GB, Total 4GB -> drive D - Used 2GB, Free 2GB, Total 4GB

• Window Server 2012 -> drive C - Used 2GB, Free 2GB, Total 4GB -> drive D - Used 2GB, Free 2GB, Total 4GB

My question is:

How do I get drive detail information (for example, Drive C, used space and free space of Window 7) by vsphere sdk? And also drive information of another 3 vmware.

Answer 1

Answer:

GuestInfo info = vm.getGuest(); //(vm means VirtualMachine object.)
GuestDiskInfo[] dInfos = info.getDisk();
if (dInfos != null) {
  System.out.println("Disk Info");
  for (GuestDiskInfo dInfo : dInfos) {
    System.out.println(" Capacity(GB):"+dInfo.getCapacity()/1024/1024/1024);
    System.out.println(" Free(GB):"+dInfo.getFreeSpace()/1024/1024/1024);
    System.out.println(" Disk Path:"+dInfo.getDiskPath());
    System.out.println("============");
  }
}

**Important: Firstly need to install vmware tools on each guest os machine. From this question, guest os are Window 7, Window Xp, Window Server 2008 and Window server 2012.

Answer 2

From 'vm' object you can get all disk attached to virtual machine by given below code.

Below image is displaying the information inside virtualDisk object.

VirtualMachine vm = getVM(); // get the vm object
VirtualMachineConfigInfo vmConfig = vm.getConfig();
VirtualDevice[] vds = vmConfig.getHardware().getDevice();
for(VirtualDevice vd : vds){
    if(vd instanceof VirtualDisk){
        System.out.println("CapacityInKB : " + ((VirtualDisk) vd).getCapacityInKB());
        System.out.println("Name :"+((VirtualDisk) vd).getDeviceInfo().getLabel());
        //vd object contains many more information
    }
}