vCenter Server Appliance Management API 6.7 Release Notes

vCenter Server Appliance Management API 6.7 | 17 APR 2018

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This document contains the following information:

 

About the vCenter Server Appliance Management API

The vCenter Server Appliance Management API allows you to manage the vCenter Server Appliance, a turnkey solution for managing data centers that feature VMware vCenter Server and VMware ESXi.

 

Requirements

These release notes apply to vSphere 6.7.

To use the vCenter Server Appliance Management API, you must install the following:

  • vCenter Server Appliance 6.7
  • vSphere Automation SDK 6.7
  • Install the client bindings for the language you choose:
    • vSphere Automation SDK for REST
    • vSphere Automation SDK for Python
    • vSphere Automation SDK for Java
    • vSphere Automation SDK for .NET
    • vSphere Automation SDK for Perl

 

What’s New

The vCenter Server Appliance API for vSphere 6.7 includes new APIs for the following features:

  • Installing and Upgrading the vCenter Server Appliance and Platform Services Controller appliance stage 2
  • Importing the historical data of vCenter Server
  • Scheduling a backup job
  • Updating the vCenter Server Appliance
  • Managing and recovering the vCenter Server Appliance

For information about the new APIs and samples, see the vSphere Automation repositories at GitHub.

Caveats and Limitations

The vcenter API includes the following methods that have known issues and might be removed in a future version. It is advised that these APIs are not invoked:

  • DeploymentType.reconfigure
  • PscRegistration.repoint
  • Upgrade.cancel
  • Deployment.rollback

Known Issues

None.