Leveraging the VI3 SDK with .NET
Link: Leveraging the VI3 SDK with .NET, part one - Understanding the VI3 SDK.
The preferred mechanism for programmatically interacting with VI3 is the SDK, not the commands available in the ESX
COS[system console -jt] (such as the suite of commands prefixed with "esxcfg" found in /usr/sbin). The SDK is very powerful, and its power can be harnessed with another equally powerful tool, .NET. In this article, I will describe the beginning steps you must take as you start down the path toward leveraging the VI3 SDK with .NET using C#.
Part Two: "In this article, I demonstrated how to query the VI3 SDK for information, such as the available hosts." (Free Registration Required -- make sure you go back to your profile and confirm your spam subscriptions are set as desired.)
Part Three: Exploring the SDK
vish project: "The Virtual Interface Shell (vish) project is a command-line interface for managing VMware's Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3). Written in C#, this interactive shell can be used in Windows or Linux or OS X with Mono."
[via VMblog]
On Wednesday, April 25, 2007 something great has happened. Robert Baumstark, the creator of the virtual MAC tool has opened his Virtual Rob weblog. Rob is an infrastructure specialist at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Canada where he is responsible for keeping the place running. What can we expect on Virtual Rob ? Well after cleaning up his Virtual MAC source code we may take a peek at it. Besides that he will share some short code examples involving VB using the SDK. I have high expectations about the information Rob is going to publish on his website and think that his little DLL will eventually develop into a .NET API similar to the VI3-Perl-toolkit. The reason why Rob started his weblog is that I used this DLL in the groundbreaking “Building VMware Visual Basic” project. Since a lot of people are going to start with developing their own code, Rob wanted to create a place where he can publish his own thoughts and ramblings and help the developing community. I wish Rob all the best with his weblog and hope to see some code real soon.
Posted by: Eric Sloof | April 26, 2007 at 02:45 AM