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Thisbook,vSphereSDKforPerlInstallationGuide,providesinformationaboutinstallingthevSphereSDKfor

Perl.VMware

®

providesseveralSDKproducts,eachofwhichtargetsdifferentdevelopercommunitiesand

platforms.ThisguideisforadministratorswhowanttorunvSphereSDKforPerlscriptsonvSpheresystems

andfordeveloperswhowanttodevelopvSphereSDKforPerlscriptsforvSpheresystems.

Toviewthecurrentversionof

thisbookaswellasallVMwaredocumentation,goto

http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs.

Revision History

Thisbookisrevisedwitheachreleaseoftheproductorwhennecessary.Arevisedversioncancontainminor

ormajorchanges.Table 1summarizesthesignificantchangesineachversionofthisbook.

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Table 1. Revision History

Revision Description

11MAR2015 vSphere6.0Release.Removedthechapter“InstallingvSphereSDKforPerlfromSourceCode”.

VMwareisnolongertestingthisprocess.

19SEP2013 vSphere5.5versionoftheproduct.Nochangesinthisrelease.

10SEP2012 vSphere5.1versionoftheproduct.Nochangesinthisrelease.

15MAR2012 vSphere5.0Update1versionofthe

product.OnRHEL,theinstallernolongerusesCPANbutproceeds

likethevSphere4.1installer.AllotherLinuxinstallersproceedlikethevSphere5.0installer.This

documentreflectsthechangedbehavior.

22AUG2011 vSphere5.0versionoftheproduct.OnLinux,installerstopsifrequiredsoftwareisnotavailable.The

Linuxinstaller

requiresInternetaccessandinstallsotherprerequisitesthroughCPAN.

13JUL2010 vSphere4.1versionoftheproduct.OnLinux,installerdoesnotrunifrequiredprerequisitesoftwareis

notavailable.LinuxinstallerinstallsrecommendedPerlmodulesifnoversioniscurrentlyinstalled.

LinuxinstallernolongeroverwritesexistingPerlmodules.

Allinformationabout

thevSphereManagementAssistantcannowbefoundinthevSphereManagement

AssistantGuide.

21MAY2009 vSphere4.0versionoftheproduct.UsesthevSphereManagementAssistantasthevSphereSDKforPerl

appliance.TheinstallernowincludesbothvSphereSDKforPerlandthevSphereCommand‐Line

Interface(vSphereCLI).

Added

credentialstorelibraryandsampletothevSphereSDK.

25JUL2008 UpdateforVIPerlToolkit1.6.Addednewoptionsforinvocation,changedsupportedplatforms.

10JAN2008 UpdateforVIPerlToolkit1.5.Includesmiscellaneousdocumentationchanges.

vSphereSDKforPerlnolongeravailableonsourceforge.

VirtualappliancenowinOFVformat.

15JAN2007 First

versionofthevSphereSDKforPerl1.0documentation.