In my vSphere Client, I have two servers, Dev and Prod. Using the getallvms.py script found at https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi-community-samples.git, only the VMs in Prod are listed, but none of the VMs in Dev are found.

The code doesn’t seem to show a way to select a server. How do you set the server so that all the VMs in Dev can be listed?

#!/usr/bin/env python
# (copyright removed for brevity)

"""
Python program for listing the VMs on an ESX / vCenter host
"""

import re
from pyVmomi import vmodl, vim
from tools import cli, service_instance


def print_vm_info(virtual_machine):
    """
    Print information for a particular virtual machine or recurse into a
    folder with depth protection
    """
    # print statement removed for brevity
    

def main():
    """
    Simple command-line program for listing the virtual machines on a system.
    """

    parser = cli.Parser()
    parser.add_custom_argument('-f', '--find', required=False,
                               action='store', help='String to match VM names')
    args = parser.get_args()
    si = service_instance.connect(args)

    try:
        content = si.RetrieveContent()

        container = content.rootFolder  # starting point to look into
        view_type = [vim.VirtualMachine]  # object types to look for
        recursive = True  # whether we should look into it recursively
        container_view = content.viewManager.CreateContainerView(
            container, view_type, recursive)

        children = container_view.view
        if args.find is not None:
            pat = re.compile(args.find, re.IGNORECASE)
        for child in children:
            if args.find is None:
                print_vm_info(child)
            else:
                if pat.search(child.summary.config.name) is not None:
                    print_vm_info(child)

    except vmodl.MethodFault as error:
        print("Caught vmodl fault : " + error.msg)
        return -1

    return 0


# Start program
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()