I'm attempting to build some custom automation to handle the import / export of VM's to / from an on-prem vmware cluster.
So far I have authenticated the rest api, can get a VM's info, but I cannot work out how to approach exporting the selected VM.
I believe I'll need to create a download session & iterate through its files, saving them to disk one by one whilst keeping the download session alive, but the documentation seems to skirt around the concept of exporting a VM and focus predominantly on deploying.
Does anyone have an example / list of steps required to achieve exporting a VM via the Rest API?
As of 7.0U2, that functionality doesn't exist in the vSphere Automation (REST) API. Here are the top level VM functions: link
If you're open to using the vSphere Web Services (SOAP) API, there's an exportVM function available: link
If you want to automate VMs import/export I recommend to use OVF Tool / PowerCLI.
I leave you a KB with example https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1038709
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I'm working on a project where I've found myself in a situation where i need to import .txt files into d365 business central from a repository in a distant Virtual Machine.
Is it possible to establish such connexion in both ways (export/import).
I've done some research and i think it's impossible to do it using power automate or logic apps, so it would be perfect if you helped me to find another solution that will actually work.
If you have BC on prem and you have access to this VM through your network then you can open and load the file through the File Management codeunit.
If not then you could use the Azure On Premise Data Gateway.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/data-integration/gateway/service-gateway-onprem
You can also store the file in an online storage or make it available through an API, FTP, etc.
I have migrated few workloads from AWS to GCP , now trying to enable OS login feature on that migrated workloads.
Since it is not a native google image , Hence we need to build os login package on this migrated image .
There is a github resource about this https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-oslogin
but couldn't able to enable it .
If anyone have done this already , please advise .
Have a look at the documentation it's more detailed then guide at github. If you already have SSH keys you can import them. In case if something goes wrong you can use serial port connection for access to your VMs with existing login and password.
Provide more details about your steps during migration from AWS to GCP and issues with OS login configuration.
EDIT It's easier to migrate VMs from AWS into Compute Engine if you use Google Cloud Migrate for Compute Engine (formerly Velostrata).
I am trying to restart an ESX management network through Python Pyvmomi.
Even after Google search I did not find any relevant API to do so.
Please help me if there is any API which can restart/stop ESX management network which is managed by VCentre.
OK. Well the answer is no this is not possible using pyvmomi. If you are open to using an SSH lib you could log onto the ESX/i server directly and do the steps in the KB article.
Is it possible to deploy vm's using a csv or something similar? I want to automate the install of about 100 servers. The only option I have found is using powershell. I would really like some other options though. Thanks.
VCenter exposes an API, the documentation for which can be found here:
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/sdk_pubs.html
Armed with that API and a template, you should be able to do what you want to do in the language of your choice.
Templates can be customized with a CustomizationSpec directly from the VSphere client as well, which means you can deploy directly from the template in the client.
Other options: VMware's Orchestrator or Microsoft Orchestrator with the VMware plugin.
However, is there really any reason not to use Powershell? PowerCLI can do what you want to do and very easily. I've deployed thousands of servers with it.
I'm trying to build a small webapp that will handle our development environments located on an openstack infrastructure (version 2012.2.2-dev, bundled in ubuntu 12.04) and I need to create some volumes using the API (i decided to use openstack rest api). I'm able to start machines and do some other operations (everything is built based on this: http://api.openstack.org/api-ref.html). If I send the request to create a volume as explained on the api reference, i get a 404. I tried different api versions (v1), but still no success.
Thank you in advance.
What language are you coding in? You could just use an SDK for this and skip trying to talk to the API directly. See
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/SDKs
In newer releases of OpenStack it is preferable to make use of the Cinder API rather than Nova API.
In folsom, Cinder uses IDENTICAL API refs to Nova volume related API sets. This is because this was the first release to separate out volume management to cinder as a stand alone project. While volume API references remain in folsom it is not the default and it is not the preferred method for accessing volumes REST queries.
Check out.
http://docs.openstack.org/developer/cinder/