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How do I get Datastore SCSI Device name/identifier and it's type: VMFS/RDM?

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#479 opened on Apr 19, 2018

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Greetings to you! How do I get ESXi Server's Datastore SCSI Device name and it's type: VMFS/RDM using pyvmomi namespace?

For example:

Name,Identifier,LUN,Type,Capacity,Operational State,Hardware Acceleration,Drive Type,Transport HITACHI Fibre Channel Disk (naa.60060e8022120d005041120d0000012c),naa.60060e8022120d005041120d0000012c,42,disk,"4,00 TB",Attached,Supported,HDD,Fibre Channel

Name,Identifier,LUN,Type,Capacity,Operational State,Hardware Acceleration,Drive Type,Transport PRDM-HITACHI Fibre Channel Disk (naa.60060e80103d6dd0057fa1ad0000006d),naa.60060e80103d6dd0057fa1ad0000006d,206,disk,"100,00 GB",Attached,Supported,HDD,Fibre Channel

And how to get datastore/device type (VMFS/RDM/Local/Other...)?

Biiiig thanks in advance! Good luck to you! :-)

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Use pyvmomi's content.datastoreManager or retrieve scsiLun from host's storage system. Refer to pyvmomi examples and vSphere API documentation for querying datastore and SCSI device properties.
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