vsphere

I have been searching for simple and easy script to backup selected virtual machines running on esxi server, which will:

• run on linux – do not require windows machine; can’t use PowerCLI
• do not require direct access to esxi host using ssh (as other backups scripts like ghettoVCB.sh do) and will use API
• support multiple esxi hosts managed by vcenter
• have clear code – that means no perl hell (including big vsphere perl sdk)
• have short code
• can be put into cron

I was unable to find any to comply my requirements. I’m learning python, so I searched for some python vsphere libs and found psphere. Then backup.py has born.

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