how to add HostSystem through vCenter

[bob doe]

I can connect to vCenter and list all HostSystem, but how to I add a HostSystem (Esxi Hypervisor) to vCenter using psphere?

this works fine:

from psphere.client import Client
from psphere.managedobjects import HostSystem

client = Client(server="myVCenter.example.com", user="user", password="password)
hosts = HostSystem.all(client)
for host in hosts:
    print host.name

but how do I add a new HostSystem to client (given that I already have the login credentials for HostSystem)?

Thanks for the help

[Matthew Welch]

Your going to want to look at the HostConnectSpec.

basically you will do something like:

host_spec = client.create('HostConnectSpec')

run that through iPython to see what you need to supply or look at the API docs here:

http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk25pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.host.ConnectSpec.html

the thumbprint will need to be accounted for, so double check that. 

I've written a helper around this in my omoto code on github. The relevant file you want is here:

https://github.com/intr1nsic/omoto/blob/master/psphere/aobjects/clustercomputeresource.py

It has all the code you will need to add the host. 

- matt

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