QualiSystems / vCenterShell

A repository for projects providing out of the box capabilities within CloudShell to define VMWare vCenter instances in CloudShell and leverage vCenter's capabilities to deploy and connect apps in CloudShell sandboxes.

Projects

• Deployment Drivers

  These projects extend CloudShell apps with new deployment types

  • deploy_from_image App deployment type driver for deploying from vCenter OVF images
  • deploy_from_template App deployment type driver for cloning from vCenter templates
  • deploy_clone_vm_from_vm App deployment type driver for creating clones from existing VMs
  • deploy_vm_from_linked_clone App deployment type driver for deploying a linked clone (deploy from snapshot)

• package

  The vCenter Python package hosted in PyPi. The package contains most of the logic relate to working with the vCenter API.

• vcentershell_driver

  The CloudShell driver for controlling vCenter via CloudShell.

Installation

• QualiSystems CloudShell
• pyvmomi 6.0
• jsonpickle latest

Getting Started

1. Download vCenterShell.zip from Releases page
2. Drag it into your CloudShell Portal
3. Set vCenter connection details on the vCenter resource according to your enviorment.
4. Update VM Deployment App to set correct "vCenter Template" attribute according to your enviorment.
5. Reserve Virtualisation Starter environment
6. Add VM Deployment from App/Services for each required virtual application
7. Add VLAN Auto from App/Services for each required virtual network
8. Connect them as needed
9. Run Deploy command on each VM Deployment
10. Run Connect All command

Links

• [Offline Package] (https://support.quali.com/hc/en-us/articles/231613247)
• [VmWare vCenter] (https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi/tree/master/docs)

License

Apache License 2.0