don't use finder

main.go

@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/vmware/govmomi"
 	"github.com/vmware/govmomi/event"
-	"github.com/vmware/govmomi/find"
+	"github.com/vmware/govmomi/view"
 	"github.com/vmware/govmomi/vim25/methods"
+	"github.com/vmware/govmomi/vim25/mo"
 	"github.com/vmware/govmomi/vim25/types"
 )
 
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ func getEvents(eventTypes []string, entities []types.ManagedObjectReference, beg
 			returnEvents = append(returnEvents, *event)
 			//kind := reflect.TypeOf(events[i]).Elem().Name()
 			//fmt.Printf("%d [%s] [%s] %s\n", event.Key, event.CreatedTime.In(location).Format(time.ANSIC), kind, event.FullFormattedMessage)
-			fmt.Printf("%d [%s] [%s] %s\n", event.Key, event.CreatedTime.In(location).Format(time.ANSIC), event.FullFormattedMessage)
+			fmt.Printf("%d [%s] %s\n", event.Key, event.CreatedTime.In(location).Format(time.ANSIC), event.FullFormattedMessage)
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -121,10 +122,13 @@ func main() {
 	}
 	defer c.Logout(ctx)
 
-	hostFailures := getEvents([]string{"com.vmware.vc.HA.DasHostFailedEvent"}, []types.ManagedObjectReference{}, *begin, *end)
+	//finder := find.NewFinder(c.Client)
+	m := view.NewManager(c.Client)
 
-	finder := find.NewFinder(c.Client)
-	//m := view.NewManager(c.Client)
+	// Create a container view so that we can search vCenter for a VM if we found any failure events
+	cv, _ := m.CreateContainerView(ctx, c.ServiceContent.RootFolder, []string{"VirtualMachine"}, true)
+
+	hostFailures := getEvents([]string{"com.vmware.vc.HA.DasHostFailedEvent"}, []types.ManagedObjectReference{}, *begin, *end)
 
 	if len(hostFailures) > 0 {
 		fmt.Printf("Found at least one host failure, proceeding with VM restart search\n")
@@ -133,13 +137,21 @@ func main() {
 		for i := range vmFailures {
 			event := vmFailures[i]
 			fmt.Printf("Found VM '%s' restarted in cluster '%s'\n", event.Vm.Name, event.ComputeResource.Name)
-			vm, err := finder.VirtualMachine(ctx, event.Vm.Name)
+
+			// Search for the VM
+			// Specify what properties we want to retrieve
+			var vms []mo.VirtualMachine
+			err = cv.Retrieve(ctx, []string{"VirtualMachine"}, []string{"summary", "name"}, &vms)
 			if err != nil {
-				fmt.Printf("Error finding VM : '%s'\n", err)
+				fmt.Printf("Failed searching for VM %s : %s\n", event.Vm.Name, err)
 			} else {
-				fmt.Printf("Found MoRef '%v'\n", vm.Reference())
-				disconnectedEvents := getEvents([]string{"VmDisconnectedEvent"}, []types.ManagedObjectReference{vm.Reference()}, *begin, *end)
-				fmt.Printf("Retrieved '%d' corresponding events.\n", len(disconnectedEvents))
+				for _, vm := range vms {
+					if vm.Name == event.Vm.Name {
+						fmt.Printf("Found corresponding VM with MoRef '%s'\n", vm.Reference())
+						disconnectedEvents := getEvents([]string{"VmDisconnectedEvent"}, []types.ManagedObjectReference{vm.Reference()}, *begin, *end)
+						fmt.Printf("Retrieved '%d' corresponding events.\n", len(disconnectedEvents))
+					}
+				}
 			}
 
 			/*