How to know programmatically whether a host is esx server or vcenter Server?

[Dreamer732]

Hi,

How to know programmatically whether a host is esx server or vcenter Server?

Regards,

Naresh

[lamw · Accepted solution]

You can take a look at the aboutInfo section using either the apiType to differentiate between ESX(i) host and vCenter - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.wssdk.apiref.doc_50/vim.AboutInfo.html

If you need to figure out if its an ESX, ESXi host, etc. then you can use productLineId