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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 design, bu

As we are aware VMware comes up with a new release of vsphere every year. and VMware didn't fail to excite us with the new features and innovations this time too! In this blog post lets have a sneak peak about the new features which are bundled with vSphere 6.7 vSphere 6.7 is the efficient and secure platform for hybrid clouds, fueling digital transformation by delivering simple and efficient management at scale, comprehensive built-in security, a universal application platform, and seamless hybrid cloud experience. vSphere 6.7 delivers key capabilities to enable IT organizations address the following notable trends that are putting new demands on their IT infrastructure: Explosive growth in quantity and variety of applications, from business critical apps to new intelligent workloads. Rapid growth of hybrid cloud environments and use cases. On-premises data centers growing and expanding globally, including at the Edge. Security of infrastructure and applications a

This post is related to the issue what we faced today when we replaced the SSL certificates in our setup.  When I launched the web-client and access the update manager tab,  I get the message  "interface com.vmware.vim.binding.integrity.VcIntegrity is not visible from class loader" I started off by restarting the VMWare vSphere Update Manager Service for the affected vCSA: 1. Log into vCenter using the administrator@vsphere.local account. 2. Home - System Configuration - Services - Restart This did not resolve my issue...  And we tried restarting all the services by  SSH/Console into the affected server and run the following commands: service-control --stop --all service-control --start --all Still no luck.  Make sure the certs are applied and it gets reflected in the config file. ( verify if the thumbprint matches)  root@homelab71 [ /usr/lib/vmware-updatemgr/bin ]# pwd /usr/lib/vmware-updatemgr/bin root@ho

Watch this funny one-minute video highlighting the reliability of VMware’s vSphere platform over Microsoft’s Hyper V, then share it on your blog. Find the video:   Maximum Uptime

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 Download link :  Operationalizing VMware NSX

Just off from the VMworld 2017 US event. As always VMware featured a number of great announcements at VMworld 2017 including VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware customers can now run new or existing virtualized workloads in the AWS cloud while maintaining their current VMware tools and skill sets This announcement provides an important shift in the hybrid cloud market for businesses looking to adopt the agile flexibility and services of cloud while preserving infrastructure and investments in the datacenter Another BIG announcement was VMware and Pivotal Launch Pivotal Container Service (PKS) and Collaborate with Google Cloud to Bring Kubernetes to Enterprise Customers.     New Pivotal Container Service™ (PKS) Delivers a Simple Way to Deploy and Operate Production-Ready Kubernetes on VMware vSphere® and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)        PKS Features Kubernetes Distribution Built on Kubo, an Open Source Technology Created by Pivotal and Google Cloud, Addressing the Need fo

vSphere 6.5 brings a number of enhancements to ESXi host lifecycle management as well as some new capabilities to our venerable resource management features, DRS and HA.  There are also greatly enhanced developer and automation interfaces, which are a major focus in this release.  Last but not least, there are some notable improvements to vRealize Operations, since this product is bundled with certain editions of vSphere.  Let’s dig into each of these areas. Enhanced vSphere Host Lifecycle Management Capabilities With vSphere 6.5, administrators will find significantly easier and more powerful capabilities for patching, upgrading, and managing the configuration of VMware ESXi hosts. VMware Update Manager (VUM) continues to be the preferred approach for keeping ESXi hosts up to date, and with vSphere 6.5 it has been fully integrated with the VCSA.  This eliminates the additional VM, operating system license, and database dependencies of the previous architecture, and now benefit