#!/usr/bin/env python3 from pyVmomi import vim import pyVim.connect import atexit import argparse from pprint import pprint import sys import siteconf site_conf = siteconf.read() def get_args(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( description='Creates a vm snapshot.') parser.add_argument('-s', '--site', required=True, action='store', help='name of the site to connect to') parser.add_argument('-v', '--vm', required=True, action='store', help='vm to create snapshot of') parser.add_argument('-n', '--snapshotname', required=True, action='store', help='snapshot name') args = parser.parse_args() return args def get_obj(content, vimtype, name): """ Return an object by name, if name is None the first found object is returned """ obj = None container = content.viewManager.CreateContainerView( content.rootFolder, vimtype, True) for c in container.view: if name: if c.name == name: obj = c break else: obj = c break return obj def wait_for_task(task): """ wait for a vCenter task to finish """ task_done = False while not task_done: if task.info.state == 'success': return task.info.result if task.info.state == 'error': print("there was an error") task_done = True def main(): args = get_args() if not args.site in site_conf: print(f"site not found: {args.site}") exit(1) host = site_conf[args.site]['vcenter'] user = site_conf[args.site]['vcenter_user'] passwd = site_conf[args.site]['vcenter_passwd'] si = pyVim.connect.SmartConnect( host = host, user = user, pwd = passwd, disableSslCertValidation = True ) atexit.register(pyVim.connect.Disconnect, si) content = si.RetrieveContent() vm = get_obj(content, [vim.VirtualMachine], args.vm) if not vm: print("vm not found") exit(1) description = 'vmw_snapshot_create' dump_memory = True quiesce = False wait_for_task(vm.CreateSnapshot( args.snapshotname, description, dump_memory, quiesce )) if __name__ == "__main__": main() # vim: set tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 expandtab smarttab: