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vSphere SDK 4.1 Announced

This week, VMware announced VSphere 4.1, the latest and greatest offering of our vSphere platform. While there is a nice GUI to go along with the offering we have a lot of developers and administrators who access the features via application programming interfaces (APIs) and the software developments kits (SDKs) that go with these. We are pleased to announce improved capabilities of the various API/SDK offerings as well.

Our core VSphere Web Service APIs have had new objects and methods available. Details of what’s new can be found here.

For administrators who love to use the PowerCLI toolkit we have several improvements as well. 

The vSphere SDK for Perl , while not having any major API changes has been made more scalable and better performing. Several bugs have also been fixed.

VMWare’s CIM APIs have had some significant updates as well.   We now support for the SMASH Software Inventory profile and the SMASH Software Update profile on ESX. Note that the Software Update on ESX requires you to enable outgoing connections in the ESX firewall. You can use this command at a shell window:

             esxcfg-firewall --allowOutgoing

We also added support for Active Directory on ESXi. This allows CIM applications to integrate easily with enterprise security domains using Active Directory controllers. Active Directory was supported on ESX previously, but was not supported on ESXi until this release.

We hope you take advantage of these added features and bug fixes and write great applications leveraging VMware’s virtualization infrastructure. Visit http://developer.vmware.com for updates and do not forget to send us your feedback – good or bad. We are looking forward to constructively engaging with the developer community.