Controlling VMware ESXi from Go

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

If you have experience controlling VMware ESXi nodes from Go, could you point me at recommended packages? Or API reference?

Note: no vCenter, no vSphere management console, no Windows. Only Linux (or OS X), and only the basic level of ESXi.

I'm new to all this.

Thanks!

[Tim Hawkins]

Do they have an OpenStack wrapper for ESXi?

If they do that is probaly an easier target to be looking at#

http://docs.openstack.org/kilo/config-reference/content/vmware.html

It does seem to exist for vSphere.

https://github.com/openstack/golang-client

Openstack golang client.

Upside is that your system with the proper care and attention, will work for any cloud system that has an openstack interface.

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[James]

Take a look at govmomi -- works well with individual ESXi nodes.

[S.Çağlar Onur]

Hey Brad,

[just summarizing our twitter conversation here for reference] 
 

Unfortunately free ESXi license disables the API, but an evaluation license (valid for 60 days) will enable it. We are trying to change that licensing restriction since we want vSphere Integrated Containers [1] usable on free ESXi.

You can find the Go library for the VMware vSphere API (ESXi/vCenter) at [2] or download and use the govc, a CLI built on top of govmomi, from [3] 

[1] https://github.com/vmware/vic

[2] https://github.com/vmware/govmomi

[3] https://github.com/vmware/govmomi/releases

Best,

 

Thanks!