Eric Sloof

The vCenter REST API is a new developer friendly, simplified API which allows for Virtual Machine creation, modification and deletion via a consistent set of developer and automation tooling.  This will allow for consistent interaction with the API via the tools which make sense to the developer community or someone automating VMware products.

This new feature of this API allow use of:

• Cluster - Get/List
• Datacenter - Create/Get/List/Delete
• Datastore Get/List
• Folder - List
• Host - Create/Get/List/Delete/Connect/Disconnect
• Network List
• Resource pool Get/List
• VM - Create/Get/List/Delete
  • Power Get/Start/Stop/Suspend/Reset
  • Hardware Get/Update/Upgrade
    • Boot Get/Update
      • Device Get/Set
      • Disk Get/Set
    • Cdrom - Create/Get/List/Delete/Update/Connect/Disconnect
    • Cpu Get/Update
    • Disk - Create/Get/List/Delete/Update
    • Ethernet - Create/Get/List/Delete/Update/Connect/Disconnect
    • Floppy - Create/Get/List/Delete/Update/Connect/Disconnect
    • Memory Get/Update
    • Parallel - Create/Get/List/Delete/Update/Connect/Disconnect
    • Serial - Create/Get/List/Delete/Update/Connect/Disconnect
    • Adapter
      • Sata Create/Get/List/Delete
      • SCSI - Create/Get/List/Delete/Update

In previous versions of vSphere the primary API for management has been SOAP based and used heavily by partners through SDKs and by Administrators via vCLI, PowerCLI or vRealize Orchestrator.  

In today’s modern development world the API, Developers and Automation have become a focus of modern IT, the new vCenter REST API has been designed to fulfill the needs of a modern API by providing a simple, modern and expansive API surface and consistent tools and SDKs to access this.

Check-out this new Hand-On Lab: Automate and Develop vSphere easier with a Technical Preview of vSphere Automation API and SDKs

Introduction to vRealize Network Insight

In this lab students will be presented with an overview and demonstration using vRealize Network Insight. This lab will focus on three particular capabilities and 2 use case scenarios.

The first module introduces Micro-segmentation and the security within networks, followed by module two that will provide a detailed Map walk through of a Real Time flow rendering a 360 degree view for cross platform under and overlays.

Module number three will focus on NSX Manager and provide an easy in-depth look at how we manage advanced NSX operations within vRealize Network Insight. 

Enrol in HOL-1729-SDC-1

What's New with vSphere 6.5

In this lab, you will explore some of the new feature of vSphere 6.5 including encrypted VMs, HTML5 Host Client and the vCenter Server appliance. You can alos take a look at the following new features:

• Scale Enhancements – New configuration maximums to support even the largest app environments
• VMware vCenter Server Appliance – The single control center and core building block for vSphere
• vCenter Server High Availability – Native vCenter Server high availability solution
• vCenter Server Backup and Restore – Native vCenter Server Backup and Restore
• vCenter Server Appliance Tool – Single step migration and upgrade of existing vCenter Server to vCenter Server Appliance
• REST APIs – Simple, modern developer-friendly APIs
• vSphere Client – HTML5-based GUI that ensures fast performance and cross-platform compatibility
• Security-at-Scale – Policy-driven security that makes securing infrastructure operationally simple
• Encryption – VM-level encryption protects unauthorized data access both at-rest and in-motion
• Audit-quality logging – Enhanced logging that provides forensic information about user actions
• Secure Boot – Protection for both the hypervisor and guest operating system by ensuring images have not been tampered with and preventing loading of unauthorized components
• vSphere Integrated Containers – Virtual infrastructure platform for containers
• Proactive HA – High availability capability that utilizes server health information and migrates VMs from degraded hosts before problem occurs
• Cross-Cloud vMotion – Live migrate workloads between VMware based clouds
• Virtual Volume Replication – Native array virtual volumes replication

Enrol in HOL-1710-SDC-6

Dr. Matt Wood, AWS GM, Product Strategy and Mark Lohmeyer, VMware VP Products, Demo VMware Cloud on AWS - VMware and Amazon Web Services Partnership Announcement

Learn about our innovation and many new enhancements with Virtual SAN 6.5 as we highlight 3 new exciting feature, announced at VMworld Europe 2016

Learn about several of the prominent technology innovations and improvements that will further propel vSphere’s lead in manageability, security, and application delivery. vSphere 6.5 was announced at VMworld Europe 2016.