VMware vSphere Web Service client in Python.

• This is a enhanced fork of Sebastian Tello's PySphere, not just a git-svn mirror.
• All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
• Pull requests are welcome. Please include quick examples if any new feature added.

• Connect to VMWare's ESX, ESXi, Virtual Center, Virtual Server hosts
• Query hosts, datacenters, datastores, 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 and directories from the guest system. List/start/stop processes in the guest system
• Create and delete snapshots
• Create and download screenshots of guest display
• vSphere 5.0 Datastore operations: Upload/download files from the datastore file system
• Get hosts statistics and monitor performance

And 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.

The “pysphere” package in PyPI is the original version (Sebastian's). Currently the only way to install this package is to download this repository and run python setup.py install.

Here's an example of how to query and power on all virtual machines in the specified datacenter and cluster.

from pysphere import VIServer
server = VIServer()
server.connect("my.esx.host.example.com", "username", "secret")
vms = server.get_registered_vms(datacenter="MyDataCenter", cluster="MyCluster")
for vm_path in vms:
    print "vm_path = [%s]" % vm_path # "[datastore] path/to/file.vmx"
    vm = server.get_vm_by_path(vm_path)
    vm.power_on()
    print vm.get_status() # "POWERED ON"

• Getting Started guide
• Some examples are located in examples/
• More examples and use cases can be found in the discussion group
• pyVmomi — official VMware vSphere API Python Bindings. What is the Difference between PySphere and PyVmomi?

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