Good day!
i am trying to automate some actions to be done to VM's in my organisation. The action to be done depends on the a substring in the VM name.
for eg, i would need to delete all VM's whose name starts with 'delete', etc.
I can use the below API to fetch the list of VM's:
GET https://{{vc}}/rest/vcenter/vm
However, this API can only fetch a maximum of 1000 VM's.
Is there any way i can filter and get only the list of VM's with the expected substring from this API?
from what i understand, appending filter.names.1 to the above API works but for that i need to input the exact and entire VM name.
is there a way where i can search for a list of VM's with partial text?
Apologies, i am a newbie to this.
thank you for your time!
Unfortunately the vSphere Automation API isn't setup to filter on partial names or even when using a wildcard. Some of the available filters may help you limit the output to be under the 1000 object limit (example: filter on specific clusters and/or folders).
Hopefully this is something that's added in a future release.