Steps to Connect with a vSphere Server

For a connection with a vSphere server, use the following steps:

1. Get the VimPort object for access to the vSphere services.
2. Call the RetrieveServiceContent method.
3. Call the LoginByToken method; insert a SAML token into the request header..
4. Extract the session cookie from the response.
5. Use the session cookie to set the request context for future requests.

The following sections describe these steps.