How to retrieve the list of all storage adapters on an ESXi host using pyvmomi?

Question

I recently started using pyvmomi to automate few tasks.

I need to retrieve the list of storage adapters using pyvmomi. However, I did not find examples or APIs.

Answer 1

I've wrote a python package called vmwc to provide a simple VMWare SDK client for Python (it basically wraps pyvmomi with high level functionality).

The following snippet is from it's source code. This function enumerates the ESXi's datastores + disk information (source)

def get_datastores(self):

    # Search for all ESXi hosts
    objview = self._content.viewManager.CreateContainerView(self._content.rootFolder, [vim.HostSystem], True)
    esxi_hosts = objview.view
    objview.Destroy()

    for esxi_host in esxi_hosts:

        # All Filesystems on ESXi host
        storage_system = esxi_host.configManager.storageSystem
        host_file_sys_vol_mount_info = storage_system.fileSystemVolumeInfo.mountInfo

        for host_mount_info in host_file_sys_vol_mount_info:

            # Extract only VMFS volumes
            if host_mount_info.volume.type != "VMFS":
                continue

            datastore = {
                'name': host_mount_info.volume.name,
                'disks': [item.diskName for item in host_mount_info.volume.extent],
                'uuid': host_mount_info.volume.uuid,
                'capacity': host_mount_info.volume.capacity,
                'vmfs_version': host_mount_info.volume.version,
                'local': host_mount_info.volume.local,
                'ssd': host_mount_info.volume.ssd
            }

            yield datastore

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BTW, this is how you would do this using vmwc

#!/usr/bin/env python

from vmwc import VMWareClient


def main():
    host = '192.168.1.1'
    username = '<username>'
    password = '<password>'

    with VMWareClient(host, username, password) as client:
        for datastore in client.get_datastores():
            print (datastore)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()