If you are working with Virtual Center in an enterprise environment, there are high changes that your VC clients are Windows systems running on a secure network (no network access). This article will let you build a portable Python extender the VSphere Python SDK that you can just copy and use from your vcenter client systems.
Get the required packages on a system having network access:
- lessmsi from https://github.com/activescott/lessmsi/releases/latest
- python*.msi from https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/
- Python packages from pip:
- six-1.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl,
- requests-2.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
- suds-0.4.tar.gz
- pyvmomi-6.0.0.2016.6.tar.gz
Create a .bat file that creates the python portable directory:
lessmsi-v1.4\lessmsi x python-2.7.12.amd64.msi python\
cd python\SourceDir
python -m ensurepip
scripts\pip install ../../six-1.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Scripts\pip install ../../requests-2.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Scripts\pip install ../../suds-0.4.tar.gz
Scripts\pip install ../../pyvmomi-6.0.0.2016.6.tar.gz
