maldex/pyVmCtrl

Simple VMware ESXi Guest VM creation using pySphere

cli-tool for VMware ESXi Guest VM creation and removal

about

This scripts allowes very basic operations of Guest-VMs on a ESXi like creating or deleting Virtual Machine Guests through a simple shell-command. It exposes a simplfied interface to python's pysphere module.

So far tested and working against ESXi 5.1, 5.5 and 6.5. With vCenter, you still need to target the actual host, not the vcenter.

requirements

Python(2.7isch) and PySphere (pip install pysphere)

Note: Windows / Python 2.7.xxx.msi installations: pip.exe is in C:\Python27\Scripts

--help

some more samples

usage: pySimpleVmCtrl.py [-h] [-v] [-H HOST] [-U USER] [-P PASSWD] [-A ACTION]
                         [-g GUEST] [--store DATASTORE] [--net NETWORK]
                         [--disk DISKSIZE] [--cpu CPU] [--mem MEMORY]
                         [--os OPERATINGSYSTEM]

  Simple script to create/delete/list VMware ESXi guests

examples:
# list available datastores and networks and guests on ESXi host 192.168.1.2
python ./pySimpleVmCtrl.py -H 192.168.1.2 -U root -P password -A list-host -A list-guest

# create a guest called test-01
python ./pySimpleVmCtrl.py -H 192.168.1.2 -U root -P password -A create \
         --disk 40 --store "[MainDS]" --cpu 2 --mem 4096 --net LAN -g test-01

# power on guest test-01
python ./pySimpleVmCtrl.py -v -H 192.168.1.2 -U root -P password -A on -g test-01

Note:
    -A  can be specified multiple times to run several operations on the same VM
        (e.g.  -A off -A del -A create -A on :)

Warn:
    Use '-A create' carefully, if you specify a already existing guest, a new, same-named
    guest will be created despite the original one, and you'll eventually confuse yourself!
    # todo: test which vm will be deleted if two same-named vm exist?

Arguments:

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v                    be verbose [False]
  -H HOST               hostname esxi server [localhost]
  -U USER               username to connect to esx [root]
  -P PASSWD             password [read from stdin]
  -A ACTION             what to do [list-host|list-guest|off|on|reboot|del|create]
  -g GUEST              Guest virtual machine name
  --store DATASTORE     (create) datastore to use
  --net NETWORK         (create) network to connect to
  --disk DISKSIZE       (create) disksize in GB [8]
  --cpu CPU             (create) cpu count [1]
  --mem MEMORY          (create) memory in MB [1024]
  --os OPERATINGSYSTEM  (create) Operating system [rhel6_64Guest]