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The VMware Developer Center provides the technical resources to help you build great applications and solutions based on different Software Developer Kits (SDKs) offered by VMware.

VMware provides several SDKs targeting different aspects of the application integration. The selection of the SDK depends on the desired type of integration, the VMware platform to be managed, and the programming environment.

VMware provides three major classes of Software Developer Kits:

VMware Infrastructure Management SDKs that provides facilities for monitoring and configuration of the entire VMware Infrastructure including Inventory, VM Life Cycle Management, Performance, and Event Management.
Virtual Machine Automation SDKs provides features for Virtual Machine Life Cycle management and performing Virtual Machine Guest Operations.
VMware Guest SDKs provides facilities from within the guest operating system.

VMware Infrastructure Management SDKs

SDK	Platforms Supported	Description
VMware Infrastructure (VI) Perl Toolkit 1.0	ESX Server 3.0, VirtualCenter 2.0	Provides corporate developers and ISVs with an easy-to-use Perl scripting interface to leverage the power of the VMware Infrastructure (VI) API to manage and control the VI. The VI Perl Toolkit includes numerous ready-to-run utility applications that can be put to use immediately, a client-side library to interface with the VI API, documentation, sample code, and for Windows users, a Perl runtime and development system.
VMware Infrastructure SDK 2.0.1	ESX Server 3.0, VirtualCenter 2.0	Give corporate developers and ISVs the ability to manage and control the VMware virtual infrastructure from their applications. The SDK includes the VirtualCenter Web Service interface and a development kit comprising a WSDL file, documentation and sample code.
VMware CIM SDK 3.0.0	ESX Server 3.0	CIM standards based interfaces for accessing the virtual machines on the ESX server and their allocated storage resources. Implements the SNIA SMI-S 1.02 Standard.

VMware Virtual Machine Automation SDKs

SDK	Platforms Supported	Description
VIX API 1.1	Workstation 6.0 VMware Server 1.0	The VIX API allows users to automate virtual machine operations on VMware Server or VMware Workstation.

VMware Guest SDKs

SDK	Platforms Supported	Description
VMware Guest SDK 3.0.1	ESX Server 3.0	The VMware Guest SDK provides read-only access to collect certain data about the state and performance of a virtual machine from a management agent or an application running within a guest operating system.
VMCI 1.0	Workstation 6.0	The Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) supports fast and efficient communication between a virtual machine and the host operating system and between two or more virtual machines on the same host. This API is included as an experimental feature for this release and is included as part of VMware Tools for the Workstation 6.0 release.

VMware Legacy APIs

SDK	Platforms Supported	Description
VMware Scripting API 2.3.2	ESX Server 3.0 ESX Server 2.x GSX Server 2.x and 3.x	Programming interfaces for accessing the virtual infrastructure using COM and Perl scripting languages.

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