PySphere

IMPORTANT NOTICE

This project has been migrated from http://pysphere.googlecode.com
Since 2013 I'm NOT LONGER MAINTAINING this project. I moved to a new country and started working with new technologies so I haven't been able to follow up. Since then a few forks from pysphere have been created and VMWare released its official python bindings for vSphere that you may want to check out.

Python API for interacting with the vSphere Web Services SDK.

Visit the project site for more information.

Among other operations, PySphere provides simple interfaces to:

Connect to VMWare's ESX, ESXi, Virtual Center, Virtual Server hosts
Query hosts, datacenters, resource pools, virtual machines
VMs: Power on, power off, reset, revert to snapshot, get properties, update vmware tools, clone, migrate.
vSphere 5.0 Guest Operations:
- create/delete/move files and directories.
- upload/download files from the guest system.
- List/start/stop processes in the guest system.
Create and delete snapshots
Get hosts statistics and monitor performance

An of course, you can use it to access all the vSphere API through python.

It's built upon a slightly modified version of ZSI (that comes bundled-in) which makes it really fast in contrast to other python SOAP libraries that don't provide code generation.

Installation

The simplest way is using setuptools' easy_install:

easy_install -U pysphere

Or using pip:

pip install -U pysphere

You can aslo find the source package and windows installer in the downloads section. To install it from the source package:

Unzip the package
run: python setup.py install

Quick Example

Here's how you power on a virtual machine. See also the getting started guide and the project's wiki with the full documentation.

>>> from pysphere import VIServer
>>> server = VIServer()
>>> server.connect("my.esx.host.com", "myusername", "secret")
>>> vm = server.get_vm_by_path("[datastore] path/to/file.vmx")
>>> vm.power_on()
>>> print vm.get_status()
POWERED ON

Discussion Group

You can find a lot more examples and use cases in the discussion group.

License

Copyright (c) 2012, Sebastian Tello
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