I need to know what to do to support WS SDK

[tienlamnguyen]

Hi, I am an administrator and not a programmer. I only use powercli and don't know anything about java or .NET.

Our developement departement wants to use the WS SDK to start developing things and they want us to give them that capability. Now, they say thatI have to install the sdk packages on my virtual center server.

Is this true ? Do I have to install something on my virtual center server ? The understanding that I have is that you don't have to install anything on the vsphere vcneter server. All you need is prepare your develpment workstation so that it will be able to communicate to the vsphere API right ?

Please help a blind man to see clearly.

[chico201110141]

You could see if the WS is available by connecting to

https://servername/sdk/vimService.wsdl

[Steve_Jin]

Your understanding is right - you don't need to install anything on the vCenter.

If you would consider Java, you can follow this tutorial to get your first HelloVM sample running in 5 minutes:

http://vijava.sourceforge.net/doc/getstarted/tutorial.htm

Steve Jin, Author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK, http://www.doublecloud.org