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Common Mistakes Using VMware VI and vSphere SDK

By Steve Jin | Published: January 31, 2010

I posted two blogs on the top 10 best practices of using the vSphere SDK (part 1, part 2) two days ago. Here is a list of several common mistakes developers make during their development. It’s based on the stats from our SDK support team.  Read more...

  1. Defining wrong interval information in PerfQuerySpec
  2. Using same unit number for each device attached to a controller
  3. Mistakes in defining the TraversalSpec
  4. Using case sensitive DNS names or IP address
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