Visit the project_ site for more information.
.. _project: http://pysphere.googlecode.com
Among other operations, PySphere provides easy interfaces to:
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.
.. _ZSI: http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/zsi.html
The simplest way is using setuptools_' easy_install:
.. _setuptools: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
::
easy_install -U pysphere
Or using the pip_:
.. _pip: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/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:
.. _downloads: http://code.google.com/p/pysphere/downloads/list
python setup.py installHere's how you power on a virtual machine. See also the getting started guide
and the project's wiki with the full documentation.
.. _getting started: http://code.google.com/p/pysphere/wiki/GettingStarted .. _wiki: http://code.google.com/p/pysphere/w/list
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
You can find a lot more examples and use cases in the discussion group_
.. _discussion group: http://groups.google.com/group/pysphere
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