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Reputation: 109

Python pyvmomi VMware API - how to convert a VM to template?

I was looking at a solution to convert a VMware vsphere VM to a template using any of Ansible modules and failed as it seems vmware_guest (using pyvmomi) failed to to that.

So, I started investigating the alternatives; it seems the direct pyvmomi python script can send the API towards vCenter and it will do the task - though I haven't found any of examples, unfortunately.

I have read the VMware API documentation It states that the VirtualMachineConfigSpec should be used as well as:

"A virtual machine template is a virtual machine that cannot be powered on and that is not associated with a resource pool. You can convert any powered off virtual machine to a template by calling VirtualMachine.MarkAsTemplate. After the conversion, the original virtual machine no longer exists."

Can I ask anyone to help me develop a very basic script that connects to vCenter, finds the given VM and converts it to template?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2942

Answers (1)

gerardw
gerardw

Reputation: 6329

First download and execute some of the samples found in the pyvmomi-community-samples (preferably in a python virtual environment).

Then use any sample which retrieves a vim.VirtualMachine object (e.g. add_disk_to_vm.py), and after the vm object is retrieved, call vm.MarkAsTemplate().

Upvotes: 2

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