| ESX Agent Manager (EAM) SDK 8.0 | 11 OCT 2022 Check for additions and updates to these release notes. |
About the vSphere Solutions Manager, vServices, and ESX Agent Manager SDK
With vSphere Solutions, vServices, and ESX Agents you can extend the functionality of vCenter Server.
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A vSphere Solution is an object or program that you create by extending specific classes in the vSphere Web Services API. After you register your solution with the instance of the vSphere Web Services API's ExtensionManager managed object associated with your vCenter Server, you see your new solution in the vCenter Server Extensions of your vSphere Web Client.
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You can create a vService solution to provide access for a specific application to connect to a service across the network.
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You can create an ESX Agent to extend the functions of an ESXi host and provide additional services that a vSphere solution requires.
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The vServices Manager and ESX Agent Manager are pre-built solutions that are part of the vCenter Server Extensions functionality within the vCenter Server.
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The VMware ESX Agent Manager includes an API library that allows you to adapt and modify the ESX Agent Manager (EAM) Sample Solution and view it using the vSphere Web Client.
For more details about each of these extensibility options, see Developing and Deploying vSphere Solutions, vServices, and ESXi Agents for vSphere 8.0.
Requirements
These release notes apply to the vSphere 8.0 release. You should install the following software to use the 8.0 version of the vSphere Solutions Manager, vServices, and ESX Agent Manager SDK.
To use the vSphere Solutions Manager, vServices, and ESX Agent Manager SDKs, download and/or install:
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ESXi 8.0 | 11 OCT 2022
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vCenter Server 8.0 | 11 OCT 2022
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com.vmware.eam.apiref.doc.jar | API Reference
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vsphere-vcenter-80-solutions-vservices-esxi-agent-manager-developer-guide.pdf | Programming Guide
What's New
This release of the vSphere Solutions Manager, vServices, and ESX Agent Manager SDKs introduces the following changes:
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vSphere ESX Agent Manager is integrated with the vSphere Lifecycle Manager feature introduced with vSphere 7.0.
If you use the vSphere Lifecycle Manager to remediate an ESXi cluster with a desired state specification, the vSphere ESX Agent Manager takes care of configuring the components that are part of the solutions deployed on the ESXi hosts in that cluster. When the desired state is applied on the cluster, the vSphere Lifecycle Manager installs the solution components configured by the ESX Agent Manager.
The EAM Sample Solution is compatible with Apache Tomcat ® 8.5.5 and later and Pivotal® tc Server 3.0 and later.
Resolved Issues
There are no issues.
Known Issues
There are no issues.
