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John
John

Reputation:

Common API for ESX, Hyper-V, Virtual Server?

ESX, Hyper-V, and Virtual Server all have their own, non-interoperable APIs. Do you know of any library that unifies these?

Thanks, J.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 636

Answers (2)

Evan Powell
Evan Powell

Reputation: 960

I've never seen anything like an entirely hypervisor-agnostic API library. However, you can get decent hypervisor coverage starting with libvirt, which covers most *nix-based virtualization. That just leaves Hyper-V out, for which you can use the WMI APIs or SCVMM as Mischa recommends.

Upvotes: 0

Mischa
Mischa

Reputation: 901

The only API I know that can interact across the product borders is the PowerShell interface of Microsofts "System Center Virtual Machine Manager".

Requirements: 1. Buy MS SCVMM 2. In order to automate VMWare ESX with SCVMM you have to use the Virtual Center AddOn

Upvotes: 1

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