In vSphere 4.1, several properties and types have been deprecated. The following table from vSphere Web Services SDK 4.1 release note lists each deprecated API element and its replacement.
| Name of deprecated type, method, or property |
As of vSphere API 4.1, use instead… |
| Methods |
PropertyCollector.CheckForUpdates |
PropertyCollector.WaitForUpdatesEx |
PropertyCollector.RetrieveProperties |
PropertyCollector.RetrievePropertiesEx |
PropertyCollector.WaitForUpdates |
PropertyCollector.WaitForUpdatesEx |
VirtualMachine.AcquireMksTicket |
VirtualMachine.AcquireTicket |
| Data Objects |
VirtualMachineMksTicket |
VirtualMachineTicket |
| Data Object Properties |
ClusterVmToolsMonitoringSettings.enabled |
ClusterVmToolsMonitoringSettings.vmMonitoring |
HostCapability.replayUnsupportedReason |
HostCapability.replayCompatibilityIssues |
VirtualDisk.shares |
StorageIOAllocationInfo.shares |
VirtualMachineRuntimeInfo.memoryOverhead |
PerformanceManager memory overhead counter |
Note that the release note has much more information that you should really read through if you use vSphere 4.1 API.
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 RSS or Email, and follow on Twitter.
The following tables list all the managed object types in VI 3.5, vSphere 4 and 4.1. A short description is provided for each type explaining its major responsibilities.
Note that the managed object types are added in an incremental way. The types in older versions are still supported in newer versions. The complete types in a verion include ones in the correpsonding table plus all the ones in all older version tables.
Hope this post gives you a high level overview of functionalities of the vSphere APIs. Check out other blogs such as best practices (1-5, 6-10) on how to use them in general. And don’t forget my book which introduces them extensively with many read to use samples.
Table 1 Managed Object Types in VI 3.5 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 RSS or Email, and follow on Twitter.
Following the vSphere 4.1 release, I am pleased to announce the release of the vSphere(VI) Java API 2.1 beta that fully supports the vSphere 4.1. The 2.1 beta has been ready for limited access for months by VMware internal teams, and partners/customers who participated vSphere 4.1 beta program.
The 2.1 beta works with VMware Infrastructure 3.0, 3.5, vSphere 4, and 4.1. It automatically detects the versions of 4 and 4.1, so you don’t need to change the way you work with the API. Besides the support of 4.1, it also includes several bug fixes since 2.0 update 1 released last December. For more info on what’s new in vSphere API 4.1, check out this blog.
I plan to GA version 2.1 in about one month. Please help to give the beta a try. I need your help to report bugs for best quality of the API. You can download the API here, and file bugs here.
BTW, many thanks to those who have submitted the survey VMware does for this open source API. If you haven’t submitted yours yet, please do so quickly because the survey is closing soon. Your feedbacks are critical for the API to be supported.
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 RSS or Email, and follow on Twitter.
VMware announced GA of vSphere 4.1 product this Tuesday. Here is the official what’s new in vSphere 4.1. Many bloggers already covered different aspects of the product itself: VMware vSphere 4.1: Advancing the Platform for Cloud Computing, Useful vSphere 4.1 knowledgebase articles, vSphere 4.1 released, Release: VMware vSphere 4.1, etc. I don’t repeat these here, but focus on the new APIs in 4.1 release.
In general, the APIs are the programatic “view” of features. Understanding the features helps a lot on understanding the APIs. So I strongly encourage you to read new features of the product itself. Note that not all the new features especially the performance and scalability features are explicitly reflected in API signatures.
vSphere API 4.1 introduces 7 new managed object types:
vSphere 4.1 adds 23 new methods to 10 existing managed object types: 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 RSS or Email, and follow on Twitter.
VMware launches an official survey on the open source vSphere(VI) Java API. Please let the company know your take on the open source project, and what you want, for example, formal developer support, etc.
The survey includes 16 simple questions and should take no more than 3 minutes to finish. All the collected information is confidential.
Note that the survey result decides what to come next. Please make sure your voice heard by taking the survey here.
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 RSS or Email, and follow on Twitter.
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