Step 3: Connect to the
Server
The vSphere API is
hosted as a secure Web service on a
and ESX/ system.
By default, the Web service is available over
HTTPS. Clients must provide valid credentials to connect to the service.
Depending on the specifics of your server, you might have to enter only a user
name and password. You might need other information. See
Table 1.
A call to
Util::connect()
connects to the
server.
When a script reaches the call to
Util::connect()
, the vSphere SDK
for Perl runtime checks the environment variables, configuration file contents,
and command-line entries (in this order) for connection options. If the options
are not defined, the runtime uses the defaults (localhost
and
no user name and password) to set up the connection.