Register an Extension with vCenter Server

You must provide information about an extension when you register it with vCenter Server.

  • A description of the extension
  • A unique identifier for the extension
  • Version information
  • URLs to any server or client interfaces that the extension exposes
  • An email address for the extension administrator
  • Any additional metadata that the extension defines, for example, URLs to the the company and product Web sites, the managed object reference (MoRef) of the virtual machine or vApp in which the solution is running, and so on
  • Definitions of the tasks, events, faults, and privileges that the extension adds to vCenter Server
  • Localization data for the task, event, fault, and privilege descriptions
  • A public key which vCenter Server uses to register the extension in the registry of the vCenter Server system on which it is running.