VMware vSphere supports robust, fault-tolerant virtualized applications, networking, and storage. vSphere offers many optional components such as High Availability and vMotion. The vSphere Web Services SDK gives developers programmatic access to most vSphere components.
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vSphere Web Services SDK The vSphere Web Services SDK is the most comprehensive of the available management APIs. The SDK works with both ESXi and vCenter Server systems.
SDK Developer Setup for the Web Services SDK Before you can start developing applications with the vSphere Web Services SDK, you must download the software and set up your system. The vSphere Web Services SDK Developers Setup Guide has complete instructions for Java client development and discusses a simplified security configuration for development environments.
SDK Samples for the Web Services SDK The SDK includes a set of Java samples that illustrate many of the SDK features.
UML Diagrams Used in the Web Services SDK Programming Guide This guide uses UML (unified modeling language) diagrams to illustrate the API objects and their relationships.