vCenter vmdk/Ovf Exporter

About

ovexport is a script which will log in to vCenter, search for a vm by name, then download all vmdks of that vm, as well as create an ovf descriptor.

Requirements

• vCenter user should have permissions to export a vm

Installation

It's in the public pypi repository. Simply run:

$ pip install ovfexporter

Running

All arguments and parameters are specified in the help menu when running the script

$ usage: ovfexport [-h] -i VCENTER_HOST -u VCENTER_USER -p VCENTER_PASS -n
             VM_NAME [-d DIRECTORY] [-w VCENTER_PORT]

Converts, and downloads a vm by name from vCenter to OVF in specified
directory, then uploads the image as an AMI. AMI will be uploaded using
specified AWS profile, to specified regions.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i VCENTER_HOST, --vcenter_host VCENTER_HOST
                        Hostname or Ip of vCenter API of VM
  -u VCENTER_USER, --vcenter_user VCENTER_USER
                        Username for vCenter authentication
  -p VCENTER_PASS, --vcenter_pass VCENTER_PASS
                        Password for authentication to vCenter API
  -n VM_NAME, --vm_name VM_NAME
                        Name of the VM in vCenter
  -d DIRECTORY, --directory DIRECTORY
                        Directory to save the vmdk temp file (defaults to temp
                        location
  -w VCENTER_PORT, --vcenter_port VCENTER_PORT
                        Port to use for communication to vcenter api. Default
                        is 443