Top 5 Myths about VMware vSphere API
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If you have trouble to understand vSphere API when you first use it, you are definitely not alone. I had the same trouble when I first used it a while back.
Some of the troubles come from the disconnect between conventional programming model and that of vSphere API. In this blog, I summarize the top 5 myths about vSphere API based on my experience and the questions I see in the VMware community forum and vSphere Java API forum:
- Non-existing Managed Objects
- Pervasive PropertyCollector
- Short-Lived Task Object
- “Weak” HostSystem
- “Un-documented” View
Let’s examine each of them one by one. Read more »
Author: Steve Jin is the author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall), creator of VMware vSphere Java API. For future articles, please subscribe to Email or RSS, and follow on Twitter.
