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Chimera — User Documentation

Chimera is a programmable infrastructure simulation engine for integration-testing migration, discovery, export, and automation software without provisioning real vSphere, Nutanix, Hyper-V, AWS, or Azure.

The Command Center lives at /__chimera/ on the same listener as the fake vCenter SDK (vSphere persona). Nutanix Prism (/api/nutanix/v3), Hyper-V WS-Man (/wsman), AWS EC2/EBS, and Azure ARM are available via CHIMERA_PERSONA as protocol surfaces without the dashboard.

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Install and open Command Center Getting Started
Learn the dashboard shell Using the Dashboard
Screen-by-screen UX Page-by-page guides
Look up surfaces Complete page index
Ports, env, TLS, deploy Admin basics
Transiva export / fault scenarios Common workflows

→ Docs one-pager · GitHub · Transiva

Printable PDFs

node scripts/user-docs/build-user-pdfs.mjs

Output lands in pdf/:

  • Chimera-User-README.pdf
  • Chimera-Getting-Started.pdf
  • Chimera-Page-by-Page.pdf
  • Chimera-Admin-Basics.pdf

Product at a glance

  Command Center  →  http(s)://<host>:8989/__chimera/   (persona=vsphere)
  vSphere SDK     →  http(s)://<host>:8989/sdk
  Nutanix Prism   →  http(s)://<host>:8989/api/nutanix/v3   (persona=nutanix)
  Hyper-V WS-Man  →  http(s)://<host>:8989/wsman            (persona=hyperv)
  AWS EC2/EBS     →  http(s)://<host>:8989/                 (persona=aws)
  Azure ARM       →  http(s)://<host>:8989/subscriptions/... (persona=azure)
  Simulator login →  administrator@vsphere.local / vmware   (vSphere)
  UI login        →  admin / admin  (change in Settings)

Chimera is a test and compatibility appliance. It is not VMware, Nutanix, Microsoft, or Amazon software and is not for production workloads.

Zyvor · zyvor.dev · Chimera · Apache-2.0