Installation of vSphere CLI & Python API Ubuntu

As on windows, I installed an old version of the python SDK (pyvmomi).

For Ubuntu I used:

XUbuntu 10.04 (xubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso)

Install CLI

– Download: CLI VSphere package from vmware (Linux, 64Bit)

– unpack

$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev perl-doc liburi-perl libxml-libxml-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl libpath-class-perl
$ sudo apt-get install perl-doc
$ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl

Install Python SDK
$ sudo apt-get install git-core
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
$ sudo pip install argparse
$ sudo pip install -Iv pyvmomi==5.5
$ git clone https://github.com/vmware/pyvmomi-community-samples.git
$ cd pyvmomi-community-samples/
$ sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
$ sudo pip install requests

See also:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/29537

http://shekhargulati.com/2015/09/29/getting-started-with-vsphere-exsi-the-missing-tutorial/