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VMware vSphere & VI 3.x Management Survey - Cool prizes 1- VMworld Pass, 1- iPod 8 GB Touch

heyitspablo — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:15:19 GMT

Folks,

We have put together a survey to help us understand what your needs are from a vSphere Management perspective. The survey is targeted at folks that manage and write management applications for vSphere, VI 3.x environments.

Please take our survey - click here

The goal of this survey is to better understand which applications (commercial or in-house developed) you use or develop to manage the VMware vSphere Platform. We need your feedback as it will help us understand which 3rd party vendors or tools VMware needs to focus on.

This survey should take approximately 22 minutes to complete.

We will be awarding great prizes to lucky winners.

Grand Prize - 1 Full Conference Pass to VMworld San Francisco 2009
First Prize is - 1 iPod Touch 8GB

Winners will be chosen in a random drawing

Please review the contest rules, terms, and conditions below.

Contest Information and Rules

o Survey Starts: June 17, 2009 11:59 PM PST
o Closes: Monday August 3rd, 2009 10:00 PM CST
o Winners will be announced on the Developer Center Blog: Friday August 7th 2009
o VMware employees are excluded from entering
o One entry per person
o Raffle participants must fully complete survey
o Winners will be chosen at random by VMware
o You must provide a valid corporate email address - no personal email addresses please
o This contest is for VMware customers, there is no purchase necessary to participate
o Terms and Conditions

An introduction to scripting VI using Perl or Powershell

ddeeths — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:01:29 GMT

Hello, my name is David Deeths and I’m a new contributor to the VMware Developer Blog. I wanted to share with the community the scripting lab we put together for VMworld 2008. This is a great introduction to scripting with the VI Toolkits in Perl or PowerShell. The PowerShell version doesn’t require any programming or scripting experience at all.

The labs will help you get started with scripting VMware Infrastructure to enable automation, extensibility, and integration with existing tools. When we ran this at VMworld, we had about 600 attendees and it was so popular some students camped out in line to attend the lab a second time. We had so many folks request a way to share this with their teams that we decided to publish the whole thing for the community.

The lab is available in two versions: one shows how to use the VI Perl Toolkit and the other shows how to use the PowerShell-based VI Toolkit (for Windows). The attached files contain the manuals for both versions of the lab and the exercises for both versions of the lab.

The lab takes 2-3 hours to complete (not including the time to set the environment up first), but is conveniently split into 20 minute exercises. You’ll walk away with a better understanding of VMware Infrastructure, resources for using the toolkits, and a variety of useful scripts for performing common administrative tasks. The exercises cover triggering tasks, examining VM attributes, performing actions on VMs, and exporting performance data.

My team for the lab was phenomenal, and I want to thank Doug Baer, Shridhar Deuskar, Lisa Guinn, Terry Lyons, Aaron Miller, Alket Memushaj, Owen Thomas, Brian Watrous, and Alton Yu for building this exceptional lab.

If you don’t have gear to try this out on or if you want more lab opportunities, a similar lab is in the works for VMworld EMEA (Cannes, February 24-26). For Technology Exchange (Orlando, April 14-17), we’re looking into doing a lab focused more on professional-developers that covers the VI SDK using Java and C#.

Enjoy!

PS. I’d like to point out that the code here is designed to teach concepts, not to be “enterprise ready”. Things like error checking have been kept to a minimum so concepts covered in each exercise are as easy as possible to understand. The lawyers have asked that I inform you that the sample code is provided "AS-IS" for use, modification, and redistribution in source and binary forms, provided that the copyright notice and this following list of conditions are retained and/or reproduced in your distribution. To the maximum extent permitted by law, VMware, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates hereby disclaim all express, implied and/or statutory warranties, including duties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement of intellectual property rights. IN NO EVENT WILL VMWARE, ITS SUBSIDIARIES OR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE TO ANY OTHER PARTY FOR THE COST OF PROCURING SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF DATA, OR ANY INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF THIS OR ANY OTHER AGREEMENT RELATING TO THE SAMPLE CODE.

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless VMware, and any of its directors, officers, employees, agents, affiliates, or subsidiaries from and against all losses, damages, costs and liabilities arising from your use, modification and distribution of the sample code.

VMware does not certify or endorse your use of the sample code, nor is any support or other service provided in connection with the sample code.

Easy Money – PowerShell Scripting Contests submissions end in just two short weeks..

heyitspablo — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:11:00 GMT

Folks,

Not that you need to be reminded but just in case some of you forgot – our PowerShell Scripting contest closes in just two short weeks !

If you are not up for a Free trip to VMworld the $5,000 of extra cash might help with back to school expenses…  The MacBook Air as a second prize is also very nice .

Hurry contest ends - August 30, 2008, 11:59pm PST

Winners will be announced Sept 7th, 2008

For more information http://vmware.com/go/powershellcontest

We have plenty of resources available to learn about the VI Toolkit for Windows
http://vmware.com/go/powershellcontest

-Pablo