Ctk : change block tracking on vm

[fredgnucc]

Hello Gentlemen ,

do you know how we can retreive this information

CtkEnable = true ? in advenced properties of the machine ?

Thanks in advance

[sky-joker]

Hi @fredgnucc
That value can get it by checking the extraConfig property in a VM object.
For example, you can get that VMs list by the following code.

#!/usr/bin/env python
from pyVim.connect import SmartConnect, Disconnect
from pyVmomi import vim, vmodl
import ssl
import atexit

host = 'change me to vCenter host name or ipaddress'
username = 'administrator@vsphere.local'
password = 'change me to username password'
vm_name = 'change me to target vm name'
mob = vim.VirtualMachine

if __name__ == "__main__":
    context = None
    if hasattr(ssl, '_create_unverified_context'):
        context = ssl._create_unverified_context()

    si = SmartConnect(host=host,
                      user=username,
                      pwd=password,
                      sslContext=context)

    atexit.register(Disconnect, si)

    content = si.content

    mob_list = content.viewManager.CreateContainerView(content.rootFolder,
                                                       [mob],
                                                       True)

    vms = []
    for mob in mob_list.view:
        if mob.name == vm_name:
            for config in mob.config.extraConfig:
                if config.key == "ctkEnabled" and config.value == "TRUE":
                    vms.append(mob.name)

    if vms:
        print("The following vm is ctkEnabled TRUE")
        for vm in vms:
            print(vm)
    else:
        print("The vm of ctkEnabled True not found")

ref: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1031873