VMWare vSphere List VM's with PHP using webservices

<?php

define('DEBUG', false);  // set to true is you want raw results to be displayed

$serverIP = "10.1.1.139"; // Your VC IP address or dns name

$username = "myid";

$password = "mypasswd";

class soapclientd extends SoapClient

{

    public $action = false;

    public function __construct($wsdl, $options = [])

    {

        try{

            parent::__construct($wsdl, $options);

        } catch (Exception $e) {

            echo '<pre>'.$e.'</pre>';

            exit;

        }

    }

    public function __doRequest($request, $location, $action, $version, $one_way = 0)

    {

        if (DEBUG){

           echo '<pre>' . htmlspecialchars(

                    str_replace(

                        ['<ns', '></'],

                        [PHP_EOL . '<ns', '>'.PHP_EOL.'</'],

                        $request)

                    ) . '</pre>';

        }

        $resp = parent::__doRequest($request, $location, $action, $version, $one_way);

        if (DEBUG) {

            echo 'res: <pre>' . htmlspecialchars(

                    str_replace(

                        ['<ns', '></'],

                        [PHP_EOL . '<ns', '>'.PHP_EOL.'</'],

                        $resp)

                    ) . '</pre>';

        }

        return $resp;

    }

}

$client = new soapclientd (

                    "https://{$serverIP}/sdk/vimService.wsdl",

                    ['location' => "https://{$serverIP}/sdk",

                     'trace' => 1

                    ]

             );

try

{

    $request = [

        '_this' => [ '_' => 'ServiceInstance',

                     'type' => 'ServiceInstance'

                   ]

        ];

    $response = $client->__soapCall(

                            'RetrieveServiceContent',

                            [$request]

                        );

} catch (Exception $e)

{

    echo $e->getMessage();

    exit;

}

$ret = $response->returnval;

if (DEBUG) {

  echo '<pre>'.print_r($ret, true).'</pre>';

}

$sm = $ret->sessionManager;

// 內容等同如下

// $sm = ['_' => 'ha-sessionmgr',

//        'type' => 'SessionManager'];

try

{

    $request = [

        '_this' => $sm, // $ret->sessionManager;

        'userName' => $username,

        'password' => $password,

    ];

    $response = $client->__soapCall('Login', [$request]);

} catch (Exception $e)

{

    echo $e->getMessage();

    exit;

}

if (DEBUG) {

  echo 'response: <pre>'.print_r($response, true).'</pre>';

}

$ss1 = new soapvar(['name' => 'FolderTraversalSpec'],

            SOAP_ENC_OBJECT, null, null, 'selectSet', null

        );

$ss2 = new soapvar(['name' => 'DataCenterVMTraversalSpec'],

            SOAP_ENC_OBJECT, null, null, 'selectSet', null

        );

$a = ['name' => 'FolderTraversalSpec',

      'type' => 'Folder',

      'path' => 'childEntity',

      'skip' => false,

      $ss1, $ss2

     ];

$ss = new soapvar(['name' => 'FolderTraversalSpec'],

            SOAP_ENC_OBJECT, null, null, 'selectSet', null);

$b = ['name' => 'DataCenterVMTraversalSpec',

      'type' => 'Datacenter',

      'path' => 'vmFolder',

      'skip' => false,

      $ss

     ];

$res = null;

//

// 'config' : 取回 config 之下所有的 information

// 'config.hardware.numCPU' : 則只取回 CPU 的 information

//

$pathSet = [

         'name', 'guest.ipAddress',

         'guest.guestState', 'runtime.powerState',

         'config', 'config.annotation',

         'config.hardware.numCPU',

         'config.hardware.memoryMB'

      ];

try

{

    $request = [

        '_this' => $ret->propertyCollector,

        'specSet' => [

            'propSet' => [

                ['type' => 'VirtualMachine',

                 'all' => 0,

                 'pathSet' => $pathSet,

                ],

            ],

            'objectSet' => [

                'obj' => $ret->rootFolder,

                'skip' => false,

                'selectSet' => [

                    new soapvar($a, SOAP_ENC_OBJECT, 'TraversalSpec'),

                    new soapvar($b, SOAP_ENC_OBJECT, 'TraversalSpec'),

                ],

            ]

        ]

    ];

    $res = $client->__soapCall('RetrieveProperties', [$request]);

} catch (Exception $e)

{

    echo 'Error: '.$e->getMessage();

}

echo 'VMs: <pre>'.print_r($res, true).'</pre>';