Programmatically get list of VM names and IP's from a standalone ESXi server?

• govmomi

  17 2,257 9.0 Go

  Go library for the VMware vSphere API

  

VMware itself offers a lot of bindings for their APIs; you can consult their Github org and their list of public repositories for the open source ones, for example for Go or Python.

• pyvmomi

  7 2,170 7.6 Python

  VMware vSphere API Python Bindings

  

VMware itself offers a lot of bindings for their APIs; you can consult their Github org and their list of public repositories for the open source ones, for example for Go or Python.

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• netmiko

  23 3,442 7.2 Python

  Multi-vendor library to simplify Paramiko SSH connections to network devices

You could enable SSH on the esxi box and use Netmiko(https://github.com/ktbyers/netmiko) from Python to send VMware commands over the CLI. You can do most everything from the CLI and you can parse output as needed

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