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How to correlate between PowerCli/EsxCli commands to the Pyvmomi bindings

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#465 opened on Feb 15, 2018

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Hi, Currently, using powecli commands, you can do anything by simply writing a script. I am in the process of migrating some of the stuff that I have in PowerCLI to be used with Python. I've been having trouble in finding the ESXCLI commands and the requites arguments in the PYVMOMI docs. Is there a better a way finding corresponding classes/methods in pyvmomi comparing against the esxcli commands.

per say, I am trying to find equivalent of this [http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-6-5/topic/com.vmware.vcli.ref.doc/esxcli_storage.html] in the pyvomi. not all the options are available in pyvmomi as it inherits from multiple places, I am having trouble in tracing them.

Please, Could anyone help? Thanks in advance!

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Search the pyvmomi documentation for the vSphere API equivalents of ESXCLI commands. Focus on the vSphere API Reference and find the corresponding Managed Object and method for each ESXCLI command. For example, ESXCLI storage commands map to host storage system managed objects. Use the pyvmomi community samples as examples.
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