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VMware vCenter Orchestrator

vCenter Orchestrator is packaged with vCenter Server

VMware Studio:

Author, update, and manage production-ready appliances

VMware VIX API:

Manage and automate the OS guests inside your virtual machines

VMware vSphere Guest SDK:

Monitor virtual machine statistics from within the virtual machine guest

VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit:

Create and access virtual disks

VMware vSphere Client Plug-ins:

Create VMware vSphere Client Plug-ins

VMware vSphere Web Services SDK:

Develop management applications for VMware vSphere

VMware vSphere SDK for Perl:

Perl interface for managing VMware vSphere

VMware CIM SDK (SMASH, SMI-S):

Create server hardware management applications

VMware vCenter Lab Manager API:

Automate usage of VMware Lab Manager configurations

Administrators

VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA):

Linux virtual machine for deploying scripts and select third party agents

VMware Open Virtualization Format Tool:

Command line utility that supports importing and exporting of OVF packages.

VMware vSphere Command-Line Interface (vSphere CLI):

Common system administration commands for VMware vSphere

VMware vSphere PowerCLI:

Windows PowerShell interface for managing VMware vSphere

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Mitch Haile		Serious Memory Leaks with VDDK 1.1 on Linux in VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit	13	0	11 hours ago by Mitch Haile
ief		Get-CDDrive in VMware vSphere™ PowerCLI	268	11	13 hours ago by LucD
ikrolo		Gathering performance metrics efficiently in VMware vSphere™ Web Services SDK, CIM SDK	66	4	13 hours ago by dmitrif
dmitrif		Session management with Cookies in VMware vSphere™ Web Services SDK, CIM SDK	3	0	13 hours ago by dmitrif
dmitrif		Problems connecting to VI SDK using C++/gsoap-2.7 in VMware vSphere™ Web Services SDK, CIM SDK	4	0	14 hours ago by dmitrif
Trebormint		SCSI Canonicalname and new-harddisk in VMware vSphere™ PowerCLI	93	12	14 hours ago by LucD
mswarbrick77		How do I script changing from Bridged to NAT? in VMware Virtual Machine Automation APIs (VIX API)	20	2	17 hours ago by mswarbrick77
DougBaer		Orchestrator's purpose and sample code? in VMware Orchestrator APIs	6	0	17 hours ago by DougBaer
LucD		PowerShell snapin/module ? in VMware Orchestrator APIs	8	0	17 hours ago by LucD
vijayagce		Running Commands on the guest from the VMWare 4.0 host in VMware Virtual Machine Automation APIs (VIX API)	15	1	17 hours ago by DougBaer