Nautobot SSoT vSphere

A plugin for Nautobot that leverages the SSoT plugin to create Virtual Machines, VMInterfaces, IPAddresses, Clusters, and Cluster Groups from VMWare vSphere.

The future of Virtual Machine In Nautobot

There is discussion in place to that will bring big changes to VirtualMachine and VMInterface targeted for release 2.0. See the issue

When that time comes, this application will need to be updated to handle the new core model structure

Installation

The plugin is available as a Python package in pypi and can be installed with pip

pip install nautobot-ssot-vsphere

The plugin is compatible with Nautobot 1.2.0 and higher

To ensure Nautobot SSoT vSphere is automatically re-installed during future upgrades, create a file named local_requirements.txt (if not already existing) in the Nautobot root directory (alongside requirements.txt) and list the nautobot-ssot-vsphere package:

# echo nautobot-ssot-vsphere >> local_requirements.txt

Once installed, the plugin needs to be enabled in your nautobot_config.py

# In your nautobot_config.py
PLUGINS = ["nautobot_ssot_vsphere", "nautobot_ssot"]

PLUGINS_CONFIG = {
    "nautobot_ssot_vsphere": {
        "VSPHERE_URI": os.getenv("VSPHERE_URI"),
        "VSPHERE_USERNAME": os.getenv("VSPHERE_USERNAME"),
        "VSPHERE_PASSWORD": os.getenv("VSPHERE_PASSWORD"),
        "VSPHERE_VERIFY_SSL": is_truthy(os.getenv("VSPHERE_VERIFY_SSL", False)),
    },
}

The plugin behavior can be controlled with additional configuration settings

- `VSPHERE_TYPE` Defaults to `VMWare vSphere`
- `ENFORCE_CLUSTER_GROUP_TOP_LEVEL` Defaults to True
- `VSPHERE_VM_STATUS_MAP` Defaults to {"POWERED_OFF": "Offline", "POWERED_ON": "Active", "SUSPENDED": "Suspended"}
- `VSPHERE_IP_STATUS_MAP` Defaults to {"PREFERRED": "Active", "UNKNOWN": "Reserved"}
- `VSPHERE_VM_INTERFACE_MAP` Defaults to {"NOT_CONNECTED": False, "CONNECTED": True}
- `PRIMARY_IP_SORT_BY` Defaults to "Lowest"
- `DEFAULT_USE_CLUSTERS` Defaults to `True`
- `DEFAULT_CLUSTER_NAME` Defaults to "vSphere Default Cluster"
- `DEFAULT_IGNORE_LINK_LOCAL` Defaults to `True`

To get a detailed description on each configuration setting, head over to the Overview documentation.