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 …

Today I’ve been working on a VMware vCenter Orchestrator workflow to add custom fields on a Virtual Machine. To do this you need to check if the custom field has been created on vCenter using the method addCustomFieldDef on the VcCustomFieldsManager object.

var customFieldsManager = VirtualMachine.sdkConnection.customFieldsManager;

customFieldsManager.addCustomFieldDef …

This week I have been doing some work with the VMware vSphere 5.5 vCenter Server Appliance (5.5.0.5100 Build 1312297). During this testing I ran into problems setting up AD Authentication with a Windows 2012 domain within vCSA.  The message displayed was Error: Enabling Active Directory failed …