FINDING ALL ITEMS IN A BUSINESS GROUP

I recently needed to figure out how many items are deployed for a specific vRA Business Group. Items include virtual machines but also anything else a user can deploy. That seemed an easy task but finding all items in a business group turned out to be a bit harder than expected.

So to save others the trouble of figuring out how this works I’ll share my code here. You can copy-paste the code below directly to a vRO action.

var cafeHost = vCACCAFEEntitiesFinder.getHostForEntity(businessGroup);

service = cafeHost.createCatalogClient().getCatalogConsumerResourceService();

var filter = new Array();

filter[0] = vCACCAFEFilterParam.substringOf("organization/subTenant/id", vCACCAFEFilterParam.string(businessGroup.id));

var query = vCACCAFEOdataQuery.query().addFilter(filter);

var odataRequest = new vCACCAFEPageOdataRequest(1, 10000, query);

resources = service.getResourcesList(odataRequest);

return resources;