vSphere Solutions Manager, vServices, and ESX Agent Manager 6.5 Release Notes

vSphere ESX Agent Manager SDK 6.5 | 15 NOV 2016 | Build 4571253

Last updated: 27 JUL 2017

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About the vSphere Solutions Manager, vServices, and ESX Agent Manager SDK

With vSphere Solutions, vServices, and ESX Agents you can extend the functionality of vCenter Server.

  • A vSphere Solution is an object or program that you create by extending specific classes in the vSphere Web Services API. After you register your solution with the instance of the vSphere Web Services API's ExtensionManager managed object associated with your vCenter Server, you see your new solution in the Solutions Manager tab of your vSphere Web Client.
    • You can create a vService solution to provide access for a specific application to connect to a service across the network.
    • You can create an ESX Agent to extend the functions of an ESXi host and provide additional services that a vSphere solution requires.
  • The vServices Manager and ESX Agent Manager are pre-built solutions that are part of the Solutions Manager functionality within the vCenter Server.
  • The VMware ESX Agent Manager includes an API library that allows you to adapt and modify the ESX Agent Manager (EAM) Sample Solution and view it using the vSphere Web Client.

For more details about each of these extensibility options, see Developing and Deploying vSphere Solutions, vServices, and ESXi Agents on vSphere Management SDK for vSphere 6.5.

Requirements

These release notes apply to the vSphere 6.5 release. You should install the following software to use the 6.5 version of the vSphere Solutions Manager, vServices, and ESX Agent Manager SDK.

To use the vSphere Solutions Manager, vServices, and ESX Agent Manager SDKs, download and/or install:

  • ESXi 6.5 | 15 Nov 2016
  • com.vmware.eam.apiref.doc.jar | API Reference
  • vsphere-vcenter-65-solutions-vservices-esxi-agent-manager-developer-guide.pdf | Programming Guide

Updated What’s New

This release of the vSphere Solutions Manager, vServices, and ESX Agent Manager SDKs includes the following updates:

  • The Solution tab is removed from the main workspace of all vSphere solutions. The functionality that the tab provides, is available through the Solutions portlet displayed in the solution's Summary tab.
  • The Solution tab is removed from the vSphere ESX Agent Manager view. The functionality of the Solution tab is moved to the Configure tab and Tasks&Events of the Monitor tab.
  • The Management tab is removed from the EAM Sample Solution.
  • The Related Objects tab is renamed to VMs tab.

The EAM Sample Solution is compatible with Apache Tomcat® 8.5.5 and later and Pivotal® tc Server 3.0 and later.

Resolved Issues

  • The EAM Sample Solution is not starting

    If you deploy the EAM Sample Solution on an Apache Tomcat Server or Pivotal tc Server that use Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 8, the sample does not start. The Spring Framework that is used by EAM Sample Solution is version 3.2.2 and does not support the JRE 8 bytecode format.

    Workaround: You can deploy the EAM Sample Solution on a server that uses JRE 7.

    This problem has been corrected.

Known Issues

  • New The Enable and Temporary Disable buttons are unavailable

    The Enable and Temporary Disable buttons at the Configuration page of EAM Sample Solution are unavailable, because the Agency.Enable() and Agency.Disable() methods are deprecated in vSphere ESX Agent Manager API 6.5.

    Workaround: None.

  • New Bundled VIBs are incompatible

    The EAM Sample Solution cannot install the bundled VIBs due to version incompatibility.

    Workaround: None.