How to get vm OS version

hi thanks for reply but I'm trying to get the vm's OS version so appear in a report I am generating.

I edit the table to get host/os/version and it says N/A on the column

and get N/A. should be a lot easier than this IMO.

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Hello Scott,

The important thing is to ensure that Vmware tools are up to date and running on your VMs. Assuming that is the case, you can see the guest OS information for any VM in vmExplorer dashboard under Summary and Resource Information pane:

If you are looking for the Report then there is an OOTB report Virtual Machines Configurations that will provide the information as well.

Hope this helps.

Sincerely

osDisplayName is a hidden property on the VM topology object

a function which accepts a vm and returns a string, using the following code, will display the OS Name.

return args['vm']?.get("osDisplayName");

I've submitted this as a bug report.  Version of vFoglight doesn't matter.  VMWare Tools being up to date doesn't matter.

thanks for reply jon, but I created a definition for a report to get all c drive info on vm's. I'm looking for the vm's OS in there. where in here I can find the OS version, that works, I don't know.

Hi Scott,

Your screenshot shows a report based on LogicalDisk objects, which are in the Host model.

From there, you can get to monitoredHost/os/name and monitoredHost/os/type and monitoredHost/os/version, but you can't get to the VM to get the "osDisplayName" as suggested by John without a query (which is not available in a drag and drop dashboard/report).

But if you base your report on VMWVirtualMachineLogicalDisk, then you can path to virtualMachine/vOSDisplayName as well as hostLogicalDisk for the LogicalDisk metrics.

Regards,

Brian Wheeldon

Something like this should work:

Query Name: Virtual_C_Drives

Select objects of type VMware Virtual Machine Logical Disk from the "(Default)" datasource (of type foglight-5)

    from Root of (foglight-5:default)/VMWModel/virtualCenters/virtualMachineCollection/virtualMachines/storage/logicalDisks

    where:

        /name equals "C:\"

Regards,

Brian Wheeldon

All I am trying to do is get a list of all vm’s that have a c drive with less than 3 gig available, the name of the vm and the OS version.

Thanks brian I set the object type but what is the path exactly?

This is what I created

Thanks,

But seeing this…uhhhgg

The screenshot indicates that the paths are incorrect for some of the columns (e.g. "[DataObject]"), but the column titles are clipped off, so it's not possible to determine what you intended to display.

Perhaps you should post a more complete description of what you are trying to accomplish here?

Regards,

Brian Wheeldon

Latest/value did it!

Thanks a million!

virtualMachine/vOSDisplayName this does not give me anything.

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OK,

My last post on this thread for the day:

To get the C drives with less than 3GB available, you can use a query like:

Name: Virtual_C_Drives_with_less_than_3GB_available

Select objects of type VMware Virtual Machine Logical Disk from the "(Default)" datasource (of type foglight-5)

    from Root of (foglight-5:default)/VMWModel/virtualCenters/virtualMachineCollection/virtualMachines/storage/logicalDisks

    where:

            (/name equals "C:\" And

            /hostLogicalDisk/spaceAvailable/current/average less "3036")

Then, you can use a table definition like this (WCF Row-Oriented Table Config Wizard) to display these results:

Result:

Your vOSDisplayName configuration didn't work because this is an observation; you must select the latest value of this observation.

Regards,

Brian Wheeldon

That's great, Scott.

Could you please mark this thread as "Answered" to increase the accuracy of future searches?

Thanks,

Brian Wheeldon