Overview

The vSphere Automation SDK for Pythonenables programmatic access to vSphere. It includes Python libraries for accessing features available via the vSphere REST API including Virtual Machine management, vCenter Appliance management, Content Library and Tagging. The SDK contains samples for the features mentioned above including how to interoperate with vSphere APIs. For more information on the vSphere Web Services API samples, please refer to the vSphere Management SDK.

Please note, the vSphere AutomationSDK for Python is now available as an Open Source SDK and can be contributed to or downloaded from Github

Cookie based Authentication Deprecation

Starting with vSphere 7.0, cookie-based authentication for vSphere APIs is being deprecated as it contains security issues. Please refer here for more information.