Download the
vSphere Client
SDK

Download the
.zip
file that contains all components of the
vSphere Client
SDK.
Create a Customer Connect account at https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/.
  1. Download the
    vSphere Client
    SDK from the VMware Web site at https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads.
    The
    vSphere Client
    SDK is part of the VMware vCloud Suite and VMware vSphere, listed under Datacenter & Cloud Infrastructure.
  2. Confirm the md5sum is correct.
    See the VMware Web site topic Using MD5 Checksums at http://www.vmware.com/download/md5.html.
  3. Extract the content of the SDK in a directory on your development machine.
    The name of the directory where you extract the
    vSphere Client
    SDK must be short and without spaces.
  4. Set the
    VSPHERE_SDK_HOME
    environment variable to the directory on your development machine where you extracted the
    vSphere Client
    SDK.
    For example:
    VSPHERE_SDK_HOME=C:\sdk\html-client-sdk
  5. Set up the
    VMWARE_CFG_DIR
    environment variable on your local machine to point to one of the following directories:
    • For a Windows development environment, set
      C:\ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\cfg\
      as a value to the variable.
    • For a Mac OS development environment, set
      /var/lib/vmware/vsphere-ui
      as a value to the variable.
Open the
README.html
file and review the information about the other files and directories in the
vSphere Client
SDK.