Where to start with Web Services

We run an ESXi 5 environment with a server for vSphere and are eager to develop a system to be able to create virtual machines.

I came across the site of the developers of VMware and was very happy to find the vSphere Web Services SDK and wanted to know where to start?

Y at - it software or settings that must be enabled on the vSphere server or ESXi hosts to allow the use of the SDK?  I downloaded the SDK and trying to connect and have had no success yet, and here the possibility that something is not missing on the server.

Will there be sites level introduction, articles or tutorials on how to start using the SDK?

I'd appreciate any help that anyone can provide.

Thank you

Matt

Hi Matt,

Everything you need to start is available here: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/

It has links to:

1. the developer's Guide

2. the Program Guide

3. the online API reference

4. the download of the software development kit (if you have not already had it)

The configuration guide for developers gives you all the steps to configure your system, and how to compile the examples. I suggest you review this first and get to the point where you can run the basic example of program that connects to the ESXi host and gets a few values.

The configuration guide for developers is divided into separate sections for Java and c#. I'm using c# and the guide was in all on-site.

The following document to read is the vSphere Web Services SDK Programming Guide - it will help you understand all of the concepts you need for programming with the SDK. The information is presented in a generic way, but samples lean towards Java. But not to worry because the SDK c# samples are many and it is easy to cross things between the Programming Guide and a reference sampling program. This guide is very large ~ 250 pages, but you don't need to read all this, chapters 2 to 5 are what I'm focused on - they are the absolute must know things for relying on web services SDK. What follows I'd say depends on what you need to do with the SDK. A very useful reference when reading the chapters 2 to 5 is the managed object (MOB) on your ESXi host browser. It is accessible at https://your-host-url/mob. You can search the managed objects and explore their hierarchy here.

Once you understand, I dare say that you are able to start your own program with the help of the API reference of course. In fact you may have already tried poking around with a few lines of code by reading the guide just because it is useful to understand the concepts by testing them with code.

Also nothing should be done on the server to start to use web services SDK.

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