Using REST API in html forms
First off, I am pretty damn good with using powershell and REST API calls. So I know I need to pass header information and get the session ID to do calls after the post to api/admin/sessions.The...
View Articlealternate location to install vsphere automation sdk for python
Hi guys, I'm trying to configure Ansible for vm tagging, which requires the automation sdk libraries to be installed. However, I cannot access GitHub (blocked by our web filtering), is there an...
View ArticlevSphere Certificate Manager / VMCA API
Hi all, We're trying to automate our vCenter installation and this includes installing a signed certificate on our vcenter appliance.While I've been to find how to do this via the CLI on vcenter...
View ArticleErrors 22002 and 22003 with VixHost_Connect()
I am getting started working with the vmware API's. I wrote a c++ tool that calls them. It is working fine on my build machine with both VMware Workstation and our ESX server. However when I copy the...
View Articlehorizon view APIs
HiWe are trying to see how we can integrate Horizon VDI with our SDN product. We currently connect to vCenter to pull a lot of VM related information. However when it comes to VDI, looking at vCenter...
View ArticleFailed to connect to VC using VixHost_Connect getting 22003 error message
Hi Alli'm starting to use the VIX api, and i'm getting 22003 error messagethis is the code NOTE:* i am running this code using VS 2017 , .net 4.72the VC is 6.5 For vSphere, the VIX API was deprecated...
View Articleany method or call to pull lun naa or uuid information via restapi call ?
I am looking for an api call to determine the naa of a datastore. i have looked through all the documentation but haven't been able to find anything. Is it possible to pull this information?
View Articlecan not use revise method. (NSX-T JAVA SDK)
Hi. I am developing a tool to control gateway rule using java sdk. I use revise method because I would like to re-order gateway rule, but It doesn't work. my code is below. ApiClient apiClient =...
View ArticleVMware remote plugin vCenter support matrix
Hi There,are there any official document or files for vmware remote plugin vCenter support matrix?it means the remote plugin is supported from which vCenter version. I saw there is an remote plugin...
View ArticleESXi 6.7 with LPT Parallel Card passthrough
Hello, I'm trying to get a PCI Parallel LPT card working within a VM, The ESXI host can see it, however when trying to add it to the VM its not listed in the Parallel Port dropdown menu, any idea why...
View ArticleHow can I change gateway firewall rule order by REST-API ?
Hi~ I am developing automationtion tool which make gateway firewall rule. I would like to re-order rule sequence using REST-API but it doesn't work. When I fill out the sequnce and request, It make...
View ArticlePowercli SRM protection.listprotectiongroups or recovery.listplans() return...
Hello all, I have an issue with one of my SRM pairs. If I type :connect-srmserver xxxx it ask for username/password and it connect successfully.Then if I check the variable $defaultsrmservers it...
View ArticleVsphere WebClient SDK V6.7U2 - problems to setup tomcat server in eclipse
Hi, I saw that the new sdk is available, so I downloaded it. After realizing that the "Eclipse-Setup.html" which is found in the "docs" subdirectory is out of date (still refers to the virgo server...
View ArticleThe verification of VimPortType.cloneSession() failed even with a new clone...
We have a critical problem when using the new vSphere authentication in our remote plugin server, the below steps of new authentication approach are following the remote plugin sample from the SDK...
View ArticleHow to make Summary portlet bigger
I'm trying to use a portlet on VM summary view and the content of my portlet is bigger but the portlet does not resize and instead a vertical scroll bar is displayed in the portlet which scrolls the...
View ArticleCan't get windows xp to work or install on VMware 15
Good day Sir,I was running VMware 12 under Windows 10, and was using an image of Windows XP. Today the application VMware 12 said it does not run with Windows 10 and I have updated it to VMware 15,...
View ArticleMAJOR BUG: VMWARE Workstation PRO 15.5 FREEZES HOST if it uses ANY encryption!
I recently upgraded to 15.5 and what a mistake. If I use a VPN on the VM or even on the HOST (Windows 10) it freezes the entire host and corrupts the vmdk file. Same thing if you try to use disk...
View Articlegetting realtime stats from vsphere api
Hi, cant figure out how to get realtime memory utilization stats of VMs running on Vsphere. Using the pyvmomi library. Figured out getting allocated memory by this library but stuck on the realtime...
View ArticleVSphere Automation 6.5 / Authtication VIM or VAPI???
Hi All.I used first the REST API (6.5) but this one do not deliver the VM UUID or the system, on which a VM runs currently. So I have a look to the Automation API to get all possible VM values from a...
View ArticleHow to use vmware::appliance::networking::interfaces::Ipv4Stub.
Hi , Am trying to use the below Get method on IPV4 interface using SDK. Not able to find the usage of how to create IPV4Stub service to invoke this API. Any inputs on this ?...
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