Before I venture into the unknown...

[bobg2007]

Hi guys,

Before I venture into the unknown with the Vpshere SDK for .Net. Can somebody tell me if I can do the following with the SDK for C#?

Create or clone a VM - I believe this can be done from looking at the samples.

Configure the following on a VM

- Hostname

- IP address

- CPU's assigned to it

- memory asssigned to it

- disk space

Also am I able to reference all of the methods I could refernce from the power CLI?

cheers.

Thanks in advance for looking at my question.

[lamw]

Yep this is possible with vSphere SDK using C#

You'll want to use either CloneVM_Task() or CreateVM_Task() and pass in a configuration spec depending if you're creating a new VM from scratch or from an existing VM. All configurations that you can do using the vSphere Client you can do with the API

You may want to take a look at some of the sample code available on Code Central for C#: http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/codecentral/vsphere_ws_c and that should help you get started.

Regarding the API reference, you'll want to take a look here: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/index.html

If you're new to the API/SDK's, I highly recommend you take some time and go over this document which gives a very good overview and how to get started:

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[bobg2007]

Hi LawM,

thank you very much for your both fast and informative reply.

I will take the time to read through the information you have provided.

Many thanks once again.