If you’ve had a chance to use vSphere Web Service SDK, you must know the PropertyCollector is very hard to use. It takes a newcomer quite some time to learn how to use it, and even more time to learn to use it effectively. Luckily, you no longer have to if you use the open source vSphere Java API (a.k.a. vijava) because it has encapsulated the PropertyCollector behind these newly added getter methods of the managed object types. Read more... (549 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)
While checking out the exhibitions at CloudExpo weeks ago, I learned about the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0. Due to my interest in virtualization APIs, I started to look into its management APIs. With no surprise these days, it’s a REST API. Read more... (339 words, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)
After installing the UCS emulator, I started to read and try UCS management APIs. I found the following two documents very helpful: Cisco UCS Manager API Management Information Model, and Cisco UCS Manager XML API Programmer’s Guide.
Key Concepts
The key concepts of the APIs are pretty similar to VMware vSphere API. For example, it has managed objects which represent UCS resources like chassis, blades, fabric interconnects, etc. They contain administrative states and operational state. Read more... (720 words, 1 image, estimated 2:53 mins reading time)
Session management is a very important part of vSphere management, especially when scalability is involved. I’ve blogged about this in my previous posts (1, 2). If you haven’t read them yet, it’s high time to do so.
In this article, I am going to share with you a new finding while helping a development team. By default, an idle session is terminated by vSphere server after 30 minutes. The team found that it’s not totally true. They use several types of sessions for different purposes. Two of the sessions remain live even after the 30 minute default while others are gone. Read more... (327 words, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)
As reported by the open source VI Java API community, a bug came to my attention. It’s related to the Client REST API which is a powerful hack with vSphere MOB based on a little secret. Started in vSphere 4.1 update 1, things started to break if you want to call a method with the REST API while retrieving properties continues to work. Read more... (221 words, estimated 53 secs reading time)
After the vSphere 5.0 was released, I checked the vSphere Web Services SDK documentation page. Upon clicking the vSphere API Reference link, I got into the vSphere 5.0 Documentation Center as follows:
It’s a bit surprise to me. First of all, I like the integrated approach where you can find all the information related to vSphere 5.0: from user manual to SDK/CLIs, and even links to communities/blogs. Also, you have nice features like bookmark, search and printing, etc. Read more... (191 words, 1 image, estimated 46 secs reading time)
Because vSphere 5.0 is now released, I can talk about the changes of the API in public. As you may have heard me saying many times, management APIs are the “view” to the product. New features can be exposed via APIs. Understanding the changes in APIs helps you understand the product itself.
The API Reference 5.0 has the first page “New and Changed Managed Object Elements in 5.0” summarizing all the changes. To support vSphere 5.0 in new VIJava API , I’ve gone through all these changes. I will write a separate article on VIJava new release soon. Read more... (668 words, estimated 2:40 mins reading time)
A question was recently posted at the open source VI Java API forum regarding the uniqueness of MOIDs. The developer who raised the question wanted to build a caching on the client side so as to avoid getting back to the server for the name of a virtual machine with its MOID. If MOID doesn’t resonate with you, you may want to read this post before reading on. Read more... (238 words, estimated 57 secs reading time)
It’s probably fair to say anyone working in software knows a term called platform. It’s a term borrowed from transportation industry, where a raised and flat space on which passengers trains in a station. In software, it means something you can leverage, either an environment for running your software or a development library for building your applications.
Like many things in software, platform has never had a clear definition. Different people basically have their own versions of definitions. That is not necessarily a bad thing – at least it helped Read more... (477 words, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)
If you are using, or intend to use, the open source vijava API with Java Web start, you want to read this article carefully.
A community user recently reported an issue in this scenario. His test application was launched via Web Start jnlp. “First, when run a single test thread everything is fine and the VM tasks operate normally. However as soon as we kick off a second test thread while the first test thread Read more... (443 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)
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