Noob trying to create simple C# exe from SDK, can't find apputil.dll
I'm a fairly proficient C# and C++ Windows developer, and I'm getting started with this whole SDK. Not being sure which one I need, so I downloaded VMware-vSphereSDK-6.5.0-4571253. The samples, even...
View Articlevirtualize disk with partition
Hello, I am on Vmware 5.5. I have a virtual machine (windows 2008R2) with a virtual disk that has 2 partitions C: and D : My C: partition has become too small so I want the partitions to be on 2...
View ArticleConvert a virtual machine to a USB disk (vmWare Converter)
Hello all, I'm trying to convert a virtual machine to a USB drive. the machine is managed by a server vcenter. Vmware converter is installed on a local network machine (out of domain).I still encounter...
View ArticleOn-board sound card not detected
spec : - Dell T1700- on-board sound card -RealTek HD - esxi 6.0 On the VM (running debian 9) settings. I do not see the option to add sound-card. Tried detected it (lspci -v) and realtek doesn't show....
View ArticlevCenter plugin not loading after fresh install of vCSA 6.5 U1e
We deployed a fresh VCSA (6.5 U1e) and registered our Flex plugin. It was not accessible from vSphere Web Client until we restarted the vsphere-client service. Rebooting the VCSA will also cause the...
View ArticleIssue with special characters in VMWare cluster names
We are having a VMWare VCenter setup with Cluster Name which has special character '+' in its name (eg. 'MyCluster+Name'). While reading the response from SDK, listing all the clusters we use...
View ArticleDoes VDDK 6.5.2 EP1 [7387093] support vsphere 6.7?
Hello. We have vsphere 6.7 RC in the lab. Tried the basic operations using latest VDDK 6.5.2 EP1 (build 7387093). All gone smoothly I know that vmware ties to maintain the policy (N+1). That means the...
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Need help on errors facing in UI(plugin seed 0.9.8)
Hi, SDK Version and Stack version:Using vSphere Client SDK (HTML5) 6.5.0.10000 Build 6311399. I had upgraded plugin seed to use Angular 5.2.6 I'm facing following issues with my plugin.1. In devmode...
View ArticleSet admission control 'define host failover capacity'
Using PowerCLI 10, New-Cluster creates the HA cluster and when admission control is enabled, it defaults to the slot based policy, however when created manually via UI, it creates as 'Cluster resource...
View Articlepyvmomi to get memory consumed on a specific resource pool
Can anyone here help me out here?looking for a code snippet that I can use to poll a resource pool for total memory/cpu etc consumed. Thanks.
View ArticleDeveloping a VSphere 6.5 Web-client extension plugin
I need help with developing my vSphere web-client "hello world" extension. I downloaded SDK 6.5 and explored the samples. I am not able to understand the use of plugin.xml and package-plugin.xml....
View ArticleIs it possible to pass some custom data in openModalDialog API?
Hi, Can someone tell me how we could pass custom data for openModalDialog(title, url, width, height, objectId)? As I need to maintain my plugin compatible with vCenter 6.5U1 GA. I could not use the new...
View ArticleHTML SDK Fling 11 is available (Hint: New JavaScript APIs)
Hi all,We've just released Fling 11 : https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vsphere-html5-web-client and it contains the first set of new JavaScript APIs.The goal is to facilitate the transition of existing...
View ArticleHow to set properties OVF properties?
I'm trying to use vSphere Management SDK using Java to install NSX Manager.Normally when we manually install NSX Manager, we set the Admin and Privilaged Mode password. I was wondering how to do this...
View ArticleMonitoring vCenter Aplliance 6.5 API User Pemissions
I want to monitor my 6.5 Appliance with Health REST API. I want use following APIs: GET https://{server}/rest/appliance/health/applmgmt GET https://{server}/rest/appliance/health/database-storageGET...
View ArticleExpanding VMDK in 6.5 with c#
I would like to expand a VMDK on a VM in our 6.5 environment via the c# Management SDK, and if I understand the documentation correctly the best way to do this would be to leverage HostExtendDisk_Task...
View ArticleCustom events not formatting correctly with WSSDK 5.1
Hello, I'm registering an extension using the VMware vSphere Web Services SDK. The custom tasks and faults I've defined are displayed correctly on the VMware vSphere Client, as well as the vSphere Web...
View ArticleAutomation_ ESXi reboot for Nutanix node
Hi All, Could you please help with below situation - We have Nutanix infrastructure along with vSphere 6.0 as a virtualization platform 。We have planned reboot activities for ESXi happening on monthly...
View Articlevsphere web client 6.7's plugin can not load the .properties resource file
Before 6.7, we can place the properties file under webapp/locales, then web client load the plugin, it can find the proper properties file according to the locale value, but now, this mechanism seems...
View ArticleIs there any cli command for retrieving license information for vCenter ?
Need to retrieve License Expiry Date of vCenter through CLI
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