jonrober / ezmomi

cli for common VMware vSphere tasks

ezmomi

A simple command line interface for common VMware vSphere tasks.

EZmomi uses pyvmomi (VMware vSphere API Python Bindings).

Install

pip install ezmomi

Example Usage

Clone a template with two static IPs:

ezmomi clone --template centos65 --hostname test01 --cpus 2 --mem 4 --ips 172.10.16.203 172.10.16.204

ips takes any number of ips. See ezmomi clone --help for a list of params.

Power Operations

Guest shutdown

ezmomi shutdown --name test01

This command falls back to powerOff if VMware guest tools are not installed/available.

Power On/Off

ezmomi powerOn --name test01
ezmomi powerOff --name test01

Power Status

ezmomi status --name test01

Destroy a VM

ezmomi destroy --name test01

Listing your resources:

ezmomi list --type VirtualMachine
ezmomi list --type Network
ezmomi list --type Datastore
etc...

See Managed Object Types in the vSphere API docs for a list of types to look up.

Help

Each command section has its own help:

ezmomi --help
ezmomi clone --help
ezmomi list --help
etc...

Install via github

git clone [email protected]:snobear/ezmomi.git
virtualenv --no-site-packages ezmomi
cd ezmomi && source bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
export PYTHONPATH=$PWD:$PYTHONPATH
ezmomi --help

Contributing

Pull requests, bug reports, and feature requests are extremely welcome.