vCenter Single Sign-On SDK 2.0 Release Notes

For vSphere 6.5 Release

Released 15 NOV 2016

vCenter Single Sign-On SDK 2.0 is included in the vSphere Management SDK for vSphere 6.5.

This document contains the following information:

Overview

vSphere 6.5 includes the vCenter Single Sign-On Server that provides a Security Token Service for authentication services in the vSphere environment. The vCenter Single Sign-On SDK provides an API that your client application can use to obtain SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) tokens for logging in to a vCenter Server or a vCloud Suite SDK endpoint.

For information about how to use the vCenter Single Sign-On API, see the vCenter Single Sign-On Programming Guide.

The VMware Single Sign-On SDK includes both Java and C# examples. Information about the examples is included in the vCenter Single Sign-On Programming Guide.

The vCenter Single Sign-On SDK now supports Java 8.

Distribution Kit

The vCenter Single Sign-On 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 vCenter Single Sign-On SDK is contained in the SDK/ssoclient sub-directory:

VMware-vSphere-SDK-6.5.0-4571253.zip
    SDK
        eam
        sms-sdk
        spbm
        ssoclient
        vsphere-ws

Documentation

For information about the vCenter Single Sign-On API, see the vCenter Single Sign-On Programming Guide.

Known Issues

  • Description for VASA system events and alarms is "Unknown Event ID:".

    The vSphere Client displays VASA system events for the root folder of the inventory or for the datastore associated with the storage device. The vCenter Server uses the string "Unknown Event ID:" for the event description instead of the message specified in the VASA Provider message catalog.

Resolved Issues

  • There are no issues resolved in this release.