Downloading the vSphere Web Services SDK

The vSphere Web Services SDK, along with other VMware SDKs, is contained in the vSphere Management SDK. You can find the vSphere Management SDK at https://developercenter.vmware.com, which links to the My VMware service.

After you expand the vSphere Management SDK package, the Web Services SDK is in the subdirectory SDK/vsphere-ws. You also need the SDK/ssoclient subdirectory for client authentication.

Configurations for Sample Authentication with Single Sign-On

The vSphere 6.5 release includes a Platform Services Controller that can run on the same host as the vCenter Server, or can be configured on a separate host. At this time, the two possible configurations are:

■	vCenter Server with an embedded Platform Services Controller (vCenter Single Sign-On Server, Lookup Service Server,...). This is like traditional vSphere deployments.

■	vCenter Server with an external Platform Services Controller.

You will have to provide the vCenter Single Sign-On URL explicitly in order to run samples with the second configuration. With the first configuration, there is no need to provide the vCenter Single Sign-On URL (since the vCenter Single Sign-On service is embedded in the management node) and our SDK will continue to work as before.

The SDK samples have always had the option to explicitly specify the vCenter Single Sign-On URL (whether the vCenter Single Sign-On service is running inside or outside the management node). This is useful in cases where the vCenter Single Sign-On service is deployed outside the vSphere management node like the second configuration above.

When you log in to a vCenter Single Sign-On Server, you must be in a domain that has been added as a vCenter Single Sign-On identity source. If that domain is not the default domain, you must include the domain name as part of your user name, such as, [email protected]. To learn more about configuring the vCenter Single Sign-On Server, see vSphere Security.