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.
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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
I have succesfully created a machine on Google Cloud which I can access via
gcloud compute ssh my-service
however passing -X to ssh is not an option and I would like to see some plots.
Not sure what you mean with:
however passing -X to ssh is not an option and I would like to see some plots.
But you can also use the google console to connect to the SSH and get system usage graphs like CPU, Memory, Disk and Network usage.
Linux instances on GCP are server versions of the OS. There is no desktop. You can try using a VNC viewer like TigerVNC to get a similar desktop interface. You can also RDP to a windows instance to get a windows desktop. Your question is unclear. You will need to be more specific as to what you mean by "plots", "connect to the display", "-X" these terms are all very general and specific to your personal environment wherever you were.
I am using PowerCLI on RHEL to fetch information from VMs.
I have searched many websites, but I am not getting how to find this details like:
Established connections of VM,
Load Average,
Top Processes,
Process Counts..
It would be a grateful, if anybody knows how to get these details using PowerCLI...
note: I think there are cmdlets which work for windows powerCLi, but doesn't for RHEL.
Thank you
Invoke-VMScript is going to be the cmdlet you'll want to use to obtain that sort of information, however it is not yet functional in the PowerCLI Core fling.
Note: The PowerCLI Core fling isn't a supported VMware release and it also has a dependency on using the PowerShell Alpha release... where as PowerShell is on Beta and even RC builds.
The goal is certainly to make it functional on PowerShell 6.0, but it's not there yet.
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 want to kick myself to learning network programming, starting with implementing existing network protocols. I've finished the (rudimentary) design and will start coding soon. The problem I haven't been able to figure out solution to is related to testing: I only have one Windows laptop running Windows 7 Pro with only a recovery disc (no installation disc) that obviously cannot be used on a VM.
Hard-coding input/output data clearly isn't a good way to test any sort of program. So, what solutions can I look into?
Thanks for your time.
P.S.: In case this matters, I'll do the coding in C++.
You can run a client and a server on the same machine. When accessing the network layer, just use the local callback loop (127.0.0.1 for ipv4 or ::1 for ipv6) to connect to your server when you run the client.
If you provide the APIs that you will be using (wininet, APR, Boost etc) a more detailed answer would be available.
What about a VM with Ubuntu or some other distro of Linux?