is there an api equivalent of "create vm client"?

Also checked the PS SDK for you as I was writing some code and also couldn't find an argument in the cmdlets for it so I thing this is a CommCell console only feature which first needs to be ported to the REST API before it can be used from Command Center and be consumed via the REST API through the SDKs or directly. 

I was wondering if there by now was a solution to this? Also looking for an API equivalent for this action.

Hi @christopherlecky  let me know if you’ve found some time to give me your experiences on how to accomplish this ;-) 

Hi Christopher,

I’ve checked the logging when doing the “Create VM Client” from the Virtual Server subclient and noticed that there is some XML requests/responses going on in CvInstallMgr.log on the Commserver. 

I’ve broken the request XML down to this, notice the “var_” which needs to be replaced off course case by case. To test it, you can ad-hoc create a static XML file eg. create_vm.xml in your Base directory, then you can run “SIMCallWrapper.exe -input .\create_vm.xml to see the magic happen :-)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<CVInstallManager_ClientSetup Focus="Instance001" Operationtype="20" RemoteClient="1"
    requestType="0" vsaSubClientId="var_subclient_id">
    <User _type_="13" userId="0" userName="admin" />
    <CommServeInfo>
        <CommserveHostInfo _type_="3" clientName="var_commserve_client_name"
            hostName="var_commserve_host_name" />
    </CommServeInfo>
    <clientComposition activateClient="1" packageDeliveryOption="0">
        <clientInfo>
            <client cvdPort="0" evmgrcPort="0" installDirectory="N/A">
                <clientEntity _type_="3" clientName="var_vm_name"
                    displayName="var_vm_name" hostName="var_ip" />
                <osInfo Type="var_os" />
            </client>
            <clientProps BinarySetID="0" ConsumeLicense="0" iSCSIPort="3260"
                virtualDiscoveredClient="1" virtualServerIPAddress="" vmInstanceId="var_vm_instance_id"
                vmReferenceTime="0"
                vmguid="var_bios_uuid,var_instance_uuid"
                vmhostname="var_vm_name" vmname="var_vm_name" />
        </clientInfo>
    </clientComposition>
</CVInstallManager_ClientSetup>

In my scripting, I’m going to generate this XML file like I said case by case and remote execute SIMCallWrapper.exe with this input file.

I’ll let you know if I managed to do it like this, but for now it seems like it’s already working via command line.

For “var_os” I’ve tested with the string “Windows” which is working.
For “var_bios_uuid” and “var_instance_uuid” you should check via VCenter API:
https://{{url}}/api/vcenter/vm/vm-49341/ (where vm-49341 is the vCenter MoRef ID for the virtual machine)

As long as the client gets created it’s OK, that way we should be able to run a back-up via API POST using only the vm_uuid. (Edit: this was not sufficient to be able to run a backup)

Other client properties are not relevant at this point as they will get populated as soon as the VM Client gets merged with a Commvault client.

Kind regards,

Harm

Hi Christopher,

This vdisc.exe method is working for me.

 

# Create vm client
vdisc_path =f'{cv_path}\\VSDisc.exe'
command = (f'& "{vdisc_path}" -vm Instance001 '
            f'-cn {vsa_client_name} -ClientId {vsa_client_id} '
            f'-InstanceId {instance_id} -BackupSetId {ilb_backupset.backupset_id} '
            f'-a 2:{ilb_subclient.subclient_id} '
            f'-collectfilepath "C:\\Program Files\\Commvault\\ContentStore\\Base\\Temp\\vmcollect_{time.time()}_{rfc}.cvf" -createVMClients')
_ = remote_cmds.run_secure_powershell(credentials, vsa_hostname, command)