So I am trying to put together some short tutorials about using VMWare ESX Web Service together with .NET. These tutorials  are meant to be specific and pointed for a single item. So, on with the first posting for the ESX web Service API. Before you dig into the the code below, this code references [...]

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JohnMcBride on January 26th, 2009

I am prototyping some ESX integration and needed to add a reference to the ESX web service, but couldnt remember what the URL was. So…. if you need to access the ESX from a Visual Studio project, You will need to add a Web Service Reference, and point the URL to the following link https://<your [...]

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JohnMcBride on January 19th, 2009

If you having the dreaded Windows Installer Stopped Working issues like below. I have been fighting with getting the java SDK installed because of this issue try the following. start regedit navigate to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\SQMClient\Windows\DisabledSessions rename MachineThrottling to _MachineThrottling   This fix does work for me but i cannot take credit for it. I found it [...]

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JohnMcBride on January 15th, 2009

So this is just an quick post for finding out the VMWare ESX version you are running. First connect to any one of your ESX servers. You can use any SSH utility but I like Putty. You can download it here http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/   Once logged into the ESX box. you can run the command vmware [...]

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