Getting Started with vSphere APIs and SDKs
This
chapter contains a preliminary section about required resources, and then sections providing
a summary of authentication options.
Subsequent sections describe how to set
up a test environment for various SDKs so you can run sample programs that:
- Open a connection to the server and create an authenticated session.
- Create a 'Hello' folder in a data center.
- Create a tag category.
- Create a tag within the category.
- Attach the tag to the folder.
curl
requests to accomplish these steps.Although these code examples create
several objects, they do not delete anything. You can verify the results by using
the VMware vSphere Client™, then delete the sample objects
manually if you want to run another example.
The code examples in this book
use basic authentication and omit server certificate verification for
simplicity. In a production environment you should use stricter security
practices.