Virus Scan All Managed Disk

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:

Procedure

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.