Establishing a Session with Username and Password Credentials

You can specify username and password credentials to establish a session with a vCenter Server. The following steps describe how a client application specifies username and password credentials for access to a vCenter Server.

Procedure

1. Create a connection to the vSphere server Web service.
2. Instantiate a local proxy object for reference to ServiceInstance. Use this local proxy object to retrieve the ServiceContent object from the server. ServiceContent contains a reference to the root folder for the inventory and references to the managed objects that provide the vSphere services.
3. Instantiate a local proxy object for access to vSphere API methods.
4. Log in to the server using appropriate credentials (user account, password, and optionally the locale).
5. Access server-side objects to retrieve data and perform management operations.
6. Close the connection.