Download the
vSphere Client
SDK
vSphere Client
SDKDownload 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 thevSphere ClientSDK from the VMware Web site at https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads.ThevSphere ClientSDK 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 thevSphere ClientSDK must be short and without spaces.
- Set theVSPHERE_SDK_HOMEenvironment variable to the directory on your development machine where you extracted thevSphere ClientSDK.For example:VSPHERE_SDK_HOME=C:\sdk\html-client-sdk
- Set up theVMWARE_CFG_DIRenvironment variable on your local machine to point to one of the following directories:
- For a Windows development environment, setC:\ProgramData\VMware\vCenterServer\cfg\as a value to the variable.
- For a Mac OS development environment, set/var/lib/vmware/vsphere-uias 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.