alarm

VMPowerStateAlarm

Creates an alarm to monitor a virtual machine's power state.

events

EventFormat

Retrieves and formats the last event from the host daemon or

vpxd

. Includes a function that formats the event message.

EventHistoryCollectorMonitor

Demonstrates how to create and monitor an

EventHistoryCollector

. Uses the

latestPage

property of

EventHistoryCollector

to filter the events.

VMEventHistoryCollectorMonitor

Standalone client that demonstrates how to perform the following tasks:

general

Browser

Prints all managed entities and for each entity its type, reference value, property name, property value, inner object type, inner reference value and inner property value.

Connect

Connects to an ESXi system or a vCenter Server system.

Create

Creates a managed entity such as a folder, datacenter, or cluster.

Delete

Deletes a managed entity from the inventory tree. The managed entity can be a virtual machine, a

ClusterComputeResource

, or a folder.

GetCurrentTime

Retrieves the current time from the vSphere Server.

GetHostName

Retrieves the hostname of the ESXi Server.

GetUpdates

Demonstrates how to use the

PropertyCollector

to monitor one or more properties of one or more managed objects. In particular this sample monitors one or all virtual machines and all hosts or one host for changes to some basic properties.

LicenseManager

Demonstrates uses of the licensing API using

License

managed object reference.

Move

Moves a managed entity from its current location in the inventory to a new location in a specified folder

PropertyCollector

Illustrates the use of the

PropertyCollector

API.

RemoveManagedObject

Destroys or unregisters a managed inventory object like a

Host

,

VirtualMachine

,

or Folder

.

Rename

Renames a managed entity object.

SearchIndex

Illustrates the use of the

SearchIndex

API.

SimpleClient

Connects to the server, logs in, lists the inventory contents (managed entities) at the console, and logs out.

TaskList

Displays a list of tasks performed on a specified managed object.

guest

CreateTemporaryFile

Creates a temporary file inside a virtual machine.

DownloadGuestFile

Downloads a file from the guest to a specified path on the host where the client is running.

RunProgram

Runs a specified program inside a virtual machine. RunProgram re-directs output to a temporary file inside the guest and downloads the output file.

UploadGuestFile

Uploads a file from the client machine to a specified location inside the guest operating system.

host

AcquireSessionInfo

Acquires a session with a vCenter Server or ESXi host and prints a cim service ticket and related session information to a file.

AddVirtualNic

Adds a virtual NIC to a port group on a virtual switch. Removes a virtual NIC from a port group.

AddVirtualSwitch

Adds a virtual switch to a host. Removes a virtual switch from the host.

AddVirtualSwitchPortGroup

Adds a port group to a virtual switch. Removes a port group from a virtual switch.

DVSCreate

Creates a distributed virtual switch.

HostProfileManager

Demonstrates the use of

HostProfileManager

and

ProfileComplainceManager

.

NIOCForDVS

Adds a network resource pool to a distributed virtual switch.

httpfileaccess

GetVMFiles

Retrieves configuration files, snapshots files, log files, and virtual disk files of a virtual machine and places them on the system on which the program is run.

ColdMigration

Puts virtual machine files into a specified datacenter and datastore and registers and reconfigures the corresponding virtual machine.

performance

Basics

Displays available performance counters or other metadata for an ESXi host.

History

Reads performance measurements from the current time, or from a specified start time, for a specified duration.

PrintCounters

Writes the available counters of a managed entity into the specified file at the specified location. The managed entity can be a host system, a virtual machine, or a resource pool.

Realtime

Displays performance measurements from the current time at the console.

VItop

An

ESXtop

-like sample application that lets administrators specify the CPU and memory counters by name to obtain metrics for a specified host.

VIUsage

Creates a GUI for graphical representation of the counters.

scheduling

DeleteOneTimeScheduledTask

Demonstrates deleting a

ScheduledTask

.

OneTimeScheduledTask

Demonstrates creating a

ScheduledTask

using the

ScheduledTaskManager

.

WeeklyRecurrenceScheduledTaks

Demonstrates creating a weekly recurrent scheduled task.

scsilun

SCSILunName

Displays the

CanonicalName

,

Vendor

,

Model

,

Data

,

Namespace

and

NamespaceId

of the host’s SCSI LUN.

security

credstore

Base64

A fast, memory efficient class that encodes and decodes to and from BASE64 in full accordance with RFC 2045.

CredentialStore

Creates an example credential store.

CredentialStoreAdmin

A command-line tool that provides complete access to the credential store backing file on the local machine.

CredentialStoreFactory

Factory class providing instances of a credential store.

CredentialStoreImpl

Implementation class for

CredentialStoreAdmin

.

CredentialStoreObfuscate

Converts the hostname string to lowercase, so that a uniform representation of the hostname is used to obfuscate and de-obfuscate the password.

CredentialStoreStorage

This class provides the same functionality as

FileInputStream

, except that the close() method is overridden so that

FileInputStream

class’ close() method does not get called.

simpleagent

SimpleAgent

Accesses the local credential store to obtain a single user account to log in to the specified server.

CreateUsers

Creates a user account and password and stores them in the local credential store.

storage

CreateStorageDRS

Creates storage DRS.

SDRSRecommendation

Runs storage DRS on an SDRS cluster to obtain SDRS recommendations.

SDRSRules

Configures rules for an SDRS cluster.

vApp

OVFManagerExportVAPP

Demonstrates the

OvfManager

by exporting VMDKs and OVF Descriptors of all VMs in the vApps.

OVFManagerExportVMDK

Demonstrates how the

OvfManager

exports VMDKs from a VM to the localSystem.

OVFManagerImportLocal

Use this class to import or deploy an OVF Appliance from a local drive.

OVFManagerImportVAppFromUrl

Use this class to import or deploy an OVF Appliance from a specified URL.

vim25

This directory contains the Java classes that define the JAXWS bindings to the vSphere API.

vm

VMClone

Locates an existing virtual machine on the vCenter Server system, makes a template from this virtual machine, and deploys instances of the template onto a datacenter.

VMCreate

Creates a virtual machine. Different command-line input creates the virtual machine in different ways.

VMDeltaDisk

Creates a delta disk on top of an existing virtual disk in a virtual machine, and simultaneously removes the original disk using the reconfigure API.

VMDiskCreate

Creates a virtual disk.

VMLinkedClone

Creates a linked virtual machine from an existing snapshot.

VMManageCD

Configures a CDROM for a virtual machine. Also lists information about the CDROMs associated with a virtual machine.

VMManageFloppy

Configures a floppy drive for a virtual machine. Also lists information about the floppy drives associated with a virtual machine.

VMotion

Checks whether migration with

VMotion

is feasible between two hosts. Performs the migration if the hosts are compatible.

VMpowerOps

Performs power operations on a virtual machine.

VMPromoteDisks

Consolidates a linked virtual machine by using the

VirtualMachine.PromoteDisks

method.

VMReconfig

Reconfigures a virtual machine. Includes reconfiguring the disk size and disk mode.

VMRelocate

Relocate a linked virtual machine using disk move type.

VMSnapshot

Performs virtual machine snapshot operations