I wrote a few days ago that the ESXi 3.5 U3 update unlocked the API set. Well, this was only partially true. I was just trying out some power operations and the command line kept staring back at me blank. I went back and pinged some of the folks in engineering and low and behold I ran into bigger issues. Turns out that while fixing an API bug the API set got partially unlocked. Yes, you read that right, VMware didn’t mean to unlock the API set – at least not wholly and not yet.
So, if you went out and started madly coding some killer VirtualCenter Client replacement then hold off because I’m told the U4 update will lock things back down again. Good news is that only customers who are using the free version of ESXi have been affected. VirtualCenter and VI (Foundation, Standard, Enterprise) customers are not affected since they had rights to the API set all along.
That’s what I get for running off and blogging about new finds too quick.
December 15th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
[...] Make sure to read the update to this blog posting. VN:F [1.0.6_327]please wait…Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote [...]
December 16th, 2008 at 1:26 am
Nothing about being to quick. Open and transparent is always best. Sometimes you win and sometimes you loose. That what you get for trying to be “first post”.
December 16th, 2008 at 2:05 am
Hi Mike,
thanks for the updates, I guess I’ll have to “curb my enthusiasm” and not play with what is open now, but it's good also to know that there is a U4 coming soon
December 16th, 2008 at 3:38 am
[...] RCLI Read/Write on the latest update of ESXi, but it seems that this was done by mistake. Mick D updated this and it seems that we won’t be playing or coding with these APIs since they’re [...]
December 16th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Thanks, I added a blog link to you.
December 16th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
[...] Continued here: UPDATE: VMware RCLI now writes to ESXi Free Hosts [...]
December 20th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
[...] DiPetrillo, Principal Systems Engineer at VMware, clarifies: Turns out that while fixing an API bug the API set got partially unlocked. Yes, you read that [...]
December 21st, 2008 at 11:08 am
[...] Read all about it, on this blog: http://www.mikedipetrillo.com/mikedvirtualization/2008/12/update-vmware-rcli-now-writes-to-esxi-free… [...]
December 22nd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
[...] the API set was never supposed to be unlocked in the first place. VMware’s Mike DiPetrillo noted the mistake on his personal blog: Turns out that while fixing an API bug the API set got partially unlocked. [...]
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