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# vsphere\_live\_mount

Live Mount a vSphere VM from a specified snapshot. If a specific date and time is not provided, the last snapshot taken will be used.

```python
def vsphere_live_mount(vm_name, date='latest', time='latest', host='current', remove_network_devices=False, power_on=True, timeout=15)
```

## Arguments

| Name     | Type | Description                               | Choices |
| -------- | ---- | ----------------------------------------- | ------- |
| vm\_name | str  | The name of the vSphere VM to Live Mount. |         |

## Keyword Arguments

| Name                     | Type | Description                                                                                                                                                             | Choices | Default |
| ------------------------ | ---- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ------- |
| date                     | str  | The date of the snapshot you wish to Live Mount formated as `Month-Day-Year` (ex: 1-15-2014). If `latest` is specified, the last snapshot taken will be used.           |         | latest  |
| time                     | str  | The time of the snapshot you wish to Live Mount formated formated as `Hour:Minute AM/PM` (ex: 1:30 AM). If `latest` is specified, the last snapshot taken will be used. |         | latest  |
| host                     | str  | The hostname or IP address of the ESXi host to Live Mount the VM on. By default, the current host will be used.                                                         |         | current |
| remove\_network\_devices | bool | Flag that determines whether to remove the network interfaces from the Live Mounted VM. Set to `True` to remove all network interfaces.                                 |         | False   |
| power\_on                | bool | Flag that determines whether the VM should be powered on after the Live Mount. Set to `True` to power on the VM. Set to `False` to mount the VM but not power it on.    |         | True    |
| timeout                  | int  | The number of seconds to wait to establish a connection the Rubrik cluster before returning a timeout error.                                                            |         | 15      |

## Returns

| Type | Return Value                                                            |
| ---- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| dict | The full response of `POST /v1/vmware/vm/snapshot/{snapshot_id}/mount`. |

## Example

```python
import rubrik_cdm

rubrik = rubrik_cdm.Connect()

vm_name = "python-sdk-demo"
date = "08-26-2018"
time = "12:11 AM"

live_mount = rubrik.vsphere_live_mount(vm_name, date, time)
```