How to filter VMware clusters with virt-who?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • virt-who-0.12-10+
  • VMware ESX

Issue

  • How to filter VMware clusters instead of hosts/hypervisors in virt-who?
  • How to make sure that only the required clusters are reporting to satellite 6 using virt-who?
  • How to exclude some ESX clusters from getting reported to Satellite 6 when using virt-who?

Resolution

  • Edit the configuration file and add the paramters:
# vi /etc/virt-who.d/config.conf
[config]
type=<hypervisor_type>
server=<vcenter/esx host>
username=<vcenter/esx_username>
owner=<owner>
env=Library
filter_host_parents="<domain-xx>","<domain-yy>" OR
exclude_host_parents="<domain-zz>","<domain-xx>"

NOTE: Use either filter_host_parents or exclude_host_parents.

filter_host_parents => Clusters to be reported.
exclude_host_parents => Clusters not to be reported.

Supported Hypervisor Environment:

  • ESX

PowerCLI command to find the Cluster Names in Vmware:


> Get-Cluster Name HAEnabled HAFailover DrsEnabled DrsAutomationLevel Level ---- --------- ---------- ---------- ------------------ Cluster-ESXA-00X False 1 True FullyAutomated Cluster-ESXB-00X True 1 True FullyAutomated

PowerCLI command to find the Cluster ID in Vmware:

> Get-Cluster "ClusterName" | Select ID

-Replace the ClusterName with the actual ClusterName and execute the query:

For example:-
> Get-Cluster "Cluster-ESXA-00X" | Select ID

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