VMware has just publicly announced its latest update to its virtualisation platform, vSphere version 6.5. One of the most interesting new features for me is the introduction of a vSphere vCenter Rest API. It's a feature that is very welcome with RESTful API's being so standard now.

The new …

In my first article I gave an overview of the new vSphere vCenter Rest API as part of vSphere 6.5. The API currently focuses on VM lifecycle features which I'm going to provide a few examples of.

As part of the GA release of vSphere 6.5 VMware will …