Introducing VMware CloudClient v3.0

VMware has released a new generation command line interface called CloudClient. The 46MB sized ZIP file is freely available in the VMware Developer Center. It’s a java application and runs on every machine with JRE 1.7. The connectivity to several VMware vCloud products is implemented in plugins. These four plugins get shipped with Cloudclient version 3.0:

• Login - Handles sessions and credentials
• SRM - VMware Side Recovery Manager
• VCO - VMware vCenter Orchestrator v5.5
• VRA - VMware vRealize Automation v6.0.1 and 6.1 ( formely know as vCloud Automation Center )

Installation

Extract the downloaded zip file in an appropriate location.

Browse the documentation

The zip file includes some documenation in html format which can be browsed with the starting page doc/index.html Further usage scenarios are described on the official CloudClient Blog

Launching Cloud Client

There are two scripts to handle the appropriate launch of the java main class.

One for Windows:

cloudclient.bat

And one for Linux, MacOSX or other UNIX similar systems.

sh cloudclient.sh

You’ll get an interactive prompt when starting the client without any arguments.