Originally written to enable the integration with an apcupsd managed server to facilitate cleanly shutting down VMs and the esxi host during a power outage.
The current version uses Python Fabric as opposed to some other abstraction layer such a PyVmomi as the primary requirement was to be able to poweroff the esxi host itself too.
python -m unittest
Create a virtual environment from which you can package the distro.
python36 -mvenv ~/.virtualenv/esximanager_build
source ~/.virtualenv/esximanager_build/bin/activate
pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
The tarball should be in dist/.
Install ssh keys for the user that will be running the esximanager commands such that you can connect to the esxi host as the root user.
It is recommended that you create a virtual environment (python 3.6) into which you will pip install the package and then just pip install the local tarball:
mkdir /usr/local/esximanager
python36 -mvenv /usr/local/esximanager/
source /usr/local/esximanager/bin/activate
pip install -U pip setuptools
pip install file:///path/to/tar.gz
There is a command line entry point configured in setup.py. Such that once you pip install the distro into your virtual environment you can simply run as follows:
/path/to/virtenv/bin/esximanager shutdown --esxihost esxihost.example.com
The path to the python binary is to the one in the virtual environment such that you will be running in the correct context.