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Startup guide for vSphere Automation SDK for REST API

VMware introduced a new API service in vSphere 6.5 version which is known as vSphere Automation API. This service allows us to introduce several new SDKs for JAVA, Perl, Ruby, REST etc.   Today we will see how to setup the basic wizard to start using the API service in day to day life. For more information about what was introduced with the vSphere Automation APIs visit Here Documentation : The documentation for this SDK version is pretty straight forward. We can browse to each level of API and see the sections of what the operations it performs. We can get the URL, JSON , XML representation for each and every operations in the document. SDK Documentation   SDK tool kit: You can download the SDK kit from VMware { code } Tools required: We will use Postman today so that we will be able to start working with the API quickly and build your knowledge of how it works before using API in your own application. Postman is a great application to d...

Free NSX Books: 580 pages of awesomeness

When I was around for VMworld, the topic which was discussed most on NSX and Automation. I was going through a link by  Romain DECKER and thought of sharing the same with you. What does the book covers:  NSX Micro-segmentation Day 1  NSX Micro-segmentation Day 2 Operationalizing VMware NSX Automating NSX for vSphere with PowerNSX VMware NSX Micro-segmentation Day 1  –  Wade Holmes Main topics : NSX Micro-segmentation Components, Plan and Design for Micro-segmentation, Creating a Security Group Framework, Policy Creation Tools Download link :  VMware NSX Micro-segmentation Day 1 VMware NSX Micro-segmentation Day 2  –  Geoff Wilmington Main topics : Methodology and Application Visibility, vRealize Log Insight, Application Rule Manager, vRealize Network Insight, Download link :  VMware NSX Micro-segmentation Day 2 Operationalizing VMware NSX  – Kevin Lees Main topics : People, Process, Tools, Consuming NSX...