Introduction

NOTE: this is a fork of the psphere master branch (v0.5.3) that attempts to add Python 3 compatibility to the psphere library

psphere is a Python interface for the `VMware vSphere Web Services SDK`_, a powerful API for programatically managing your VMware infrastructure:

• Provision, clone and snapshot virtual machines
• Query and configure clusters, host systems and datastores
• Programatically configure ESXi hosts (i.e. for automation)

psphere can be used to create standalone Python scripts or used as a library in larger Python applications (e.g. Django).

Usage

>>> from psphere.client import Client
>>> #uncomment next two lines to ignore self-signed certificate error
>>> #import ssl
>>> #ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context
>>> client = Client("your.esxserver.com", "Administrator", "strongpass")
>>> servertime = client.si.CurrentTime()
>>> print(servertime)
2010-09-04 18:35:12.062575
>>> client.logout()

Installation

To install, download or clone this to a local directory and run the following command from the psphere directory:

# python setup.py install