vSphere Management SDK 5.1 Release Notes
Released 10Sep2012
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The vSphere Management SDK is a collection of software development kits
for the vSphere management programming environment. The vSphere Management SDK
contains the following vSphere SDKs.
| vSphere Web Services SDK |
Supports the vSphere API which provides access to vSphere Server Web services.
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| vSphere vCenter Storage Monitoring Service (SMS) SDK |
Supports the SMS API which provides access to the vCenter Storage Monitoring Web service. |
| vSphere ESX Agent Manager (EAM) SDK |
Supports the EAM API which provides access to vSphere management components. |
| vCenter Single Sign On SDK |
Supports the use of SAML tokens for client participation
in single sign-on sessions with a vCenter Server.
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When you extract the contents of the
distribution kit,
you create the following sub-directories for the individual SDKs:
VMware-vSphere-SDK-5.1.0-build-num
SDK
eam
sms-sdk
ssoclient
vsphere-ws
Documentation
For information about the different APIs, see the
VMware vSphere Documentation Center. The relevant portion of the table of contents is shown here:
vSphere API/SDK Documentation
vSphere Management SDK
vSphere Web Services SDK Documentation
Developer's Setup Guide
vSphere Web Services SDK Programming Guide
VMware vSphere API Reference
Using a Proxy with vSphere Virtual Serial Ports
vCenter Single Sign On SDK
VMware CIM SMASH/Server Management API for ESXi Documentation
vSphere vCenter Storage Monitoring Service (SMS) API Reference
vCenter Solutions Manager, vServices, and vSphere ESX Agent Manager SDK Documentation
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