Useful vRO JavaScript code Snippets

Using a vc:virtualmachine object, retrieve ESXi host and vCenter Cluster objects.  Most of the other attributes are easy to find in the API explorer, but these two are ‘hidden’ in the ‘runtime’ attribute.

// vcVM is a vc:virtualmachine object

esxiHost = (vcVM.runtime).host // type vcHostSystem

vCenterCluster = (vcVM.runtime).host.parent  // type vcManagedEntity
vCenterClusterName = (vcVM.runtime).host.parent.name  // type String