vSphere 8.0 Update 3

What's New

• Updated vSphere Bindings and NSX-T Bindings #423

What's Changed

Following libraries removed from the lib directory. SDK uses renamed libraries published to PyPI

Deleted from SDK's lib	New Library in PyPI	Description
vcenter-bindings	vmware-vcenter	Client stubs for vSphere Automation APIs
vapi-runtime	vmware-vapi-runtime	vAPI runtime responsible for serialization/de-serialization of objects and wire protocol
vapi-common-client	vmware-vapi-common-client	Common client code libraries

Bug Fixes

#363 : Deprecation warnings from setuptools
#400 : from vmware.vapi.vsphere.client import create_vsphere_client
#407 : Possible problem with Python 3.12?
#408 : Use "com" folder as an implicit namespace

Deprecated

Deprecated LookupService client bindings and External PSC Samples

• lookservice and lookup wsdls
• sample external_psc_sso_workflow.py
• lookup_service_helper.py
• platform_service_controller.py

vSphere

This release contains following new/updated APIs.

• vSAN Snapservice

• TLS Manual Parameters Global APIs

• TLS Profiles APIs

• TLS Profiles Global APIs

• Settings Clusters Installed Images APIs

• Settings Clusters Software Drafts Software Removed Components APIs

• Settings Clusters Software Removed Components APIs

• Settings Hosts Software Drafts Software Removed Components APIs

• Settings Hosts Software Removed Components APIs

• Authorization Vt Containers Mappings APIs

• Namespace Management Software Supervisors Prechecks APIs

• Namespace Management Supervisors Container Image Registries APIs

• Namespace Management Supervisors Recovery Backup Archives APIs

• Namespace Management Supervisors Recovery Backup Jobs APIs

• Namespace Management Supervisors Recovery Restore Jobs APIs

• Namespace Management Supervisors Supervisor Services APIs

• vCenter Phm About APIs

• Hardware Support Managers APIs

• Hardware Support Managers Managed Hosts APIs

• Hardware Support Managers Resource Bundle APIs

New Samples

vCenter Server Samples

Single session between vAPI and pyvmomi

• pyvmomi session usage in vAPI API call
• vAPI session usage in pyvmomi API call

vCenter Server vLCM

• vCenter Server vLCM Cluster Installed Images

Hardware Trusted Platform Module

• Hardware Trusted Platform Module Info

vSAN Snapservice Samples

• List Protection Groups
• Create Protection Group
• Delete Protection Groups
• Delete Protection Group Snapshots

NSX

• Updated API bindings for NSX-T Policy. New features and bug fixes in this release for NSX-T Data Center can be found here.

Known issues

These two API calls from this SDK will work only with vCenter Server version 8.0.3
List NSX Tier0 Gateway
List Networks NSX Edges