VMware vCenter Storage Monitoring Service SDK 6.5 Release Notes

Released 15 Nov 2016

Build 4571253 is the 6.5 release of the VMware vCenter Storage Monitoring Service SDK.

Check frequently for additions and updates to these release notes.

This document contains the following information:

Overview

The VMware vCenter Storage Monitoring Service (SMS) provides simplified access to storage capabilities, associations, and space usage. It is a Web service that runs in the Apache Tomcat container, available on the vCenter Server host. SMS has its own Java-based, in-memory database management system (referred to as the "SMS Cache") that periodically synchronizes its data with the storage-information provider database.

Distribution Kit

The SMS SDK is distributed as part of the vSphere Management SDK. The vSphere Management SDK is a collection of vSphere SDKs. When you extract the contents of the distribution kit, the SMS SDK is contained in the SDK/sms-sdk sub-directory:

VMware-vSphere-SDK-n.n.n-build_number:
    SDK
        eam
        sms-sdk
        spbm
        ssoclient
        vsphere-ws

What's New in This Release

New SMS APIs were added to support VM-granular storage replication and recovery for Virtual Volume-enabled storage arrays.

Known Issues

Storage Monitoring Service SDK 6.5 is known to have the following issues:

  • SMS QueryService exceptions

    You might encounter SMS QueryService exceptions that are shown in the SMS log. The log might contain the following errors.

        Exceptions indicating SMS is unable to poll the context for VASA.

        com.vmware.vim.sms.fault.QsQueryException:
        com.vmware.vim.query.client.exception.ValidationException: Got status code: 400 reason

    Workaround: Restart VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices (net stop vctomcat, net start vctomcat).