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Virus Scan All Managed Disk
Last Updated December 16, 2024

Suppose you want to run the antivirus software presented in Scan VMDK for Virus Signatures for all virtual machines hosted on an ESXi host. Here is the high-level algorithm for a VMware vSphere solution that can scan managed disk on all virtual machines.
To virus scan managed virtual disk:
  1. Using the VMware vSphere Perl Toolkit, write a Perl script that connects to a given ESXi host.
  2. Call
    Vim::find_entity_views()
     to find the inventory of every
    VirtualMachine
    .
  3. Call
    Vim::get_inventory_path()
     to get the virtual disk name in its appropriate resource.
    The VMDK filename is available as
    diskPath
     in the
    GuestDiskInfo
     data object.
  4. Using Perl’s
    system(@cmd)
     call, run the extended
    vixDiskLibSample.exe
     program with
    -virus
     option.
    For ESXi hosts you must specify
    -host
    ,
    -user
    , and
    -password
     options.
  5. Decontaminate any infected sectors that the virus scanner located.

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