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/.

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.

Confirm the md5sum is correct.

See the VMware Web site topic Using MD5 Checksums at http://www.vmware.com/download/md5.html.

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.

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

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.

VMware vSphere SDKs and Tools 8.0