larhauga / vcenter-vmcli

Lightweight vm operations cli for vCenter 6.5 built in Python with REST bindings.

vmcli: Simple vCenter client for simple vm operations

Simple REST client library and command line tool for home and small environments. Uses vCenter REST API and is dependent on vCenter 6.5.
Lightweight with minimal library dependencies.

DISCLAMER: THIS IS WORK IN PROGRESS.

This is a work in progress, and contains certain parts that are pre configured in the code. If you choose to use this, do it as a reference and not a complete library or client, as this code is subject to change.

I have used this as a way of understanding the workings of the vCenter REST API and I would recomend you to do the same. However, in a standard vCenter/vSphere environment, I recon you can use this, but then you would probably be using the powercli extentions that there are a lot of.

Usage

usage: vmcli.py [-h] [-l] [-i] [-c] [-d] [-m CHANGE_MEM]
                [-p {get,reset,start,stop,suspend}]
                server

VMware REST API handler

positional arguments:
  server                Full servername visible in VMware

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -l, --list            List all vms
  -i, --info            Get information about VM
  -c, --create          Create VM
  -d, --delete          Delete VM
  -m CHANGE_MEM, --change-mem CHANGE_MEM
                        RAM size of VM in MB
  -p {get,reset,start,stop,suspend}, --power {get,reset,start,stop,suspend}
                        Power management