Category Archives: pyvmomi

Use pyvmomi to re-apply Storage Profile and Reclaim Space

I had a 5-node VSAN with 100+ TB of hybrid storage, and it was FULL. I was kind of surprised because the application wasn’t heavy in use yet, but a new disk was added kept getting a vSphere error that it was running out of space and the VM would then crash. I remembered a… Read More »

Getting started with pyvmomi on RHEL 6

I had a need to use the API for Storage Profile Based Management (SPBM) and I recalled a blog by William Lam regarding pyvmomi support SPBM now. He had a few example scripts but he doesn’t really go over how to get going. There were a lot of steps to get this right, so instead… Read More »