Hello,

I wanted to let our partners know about the upcoming VMware Technology Exchange Event in sunny Florida (below is a picture of me before i got involved with the VMware SDKs in case you were wondering

This will be a fantastic event ! There will be deep dive sessions guaranteed to make your ears bleed, plenty of refreshments and a great opportunity to meet the rest of the VMware PMs and R&D. Our SDK teams will be there delivering sessions on what is new and exciting in our SDKs. David D and team will also be putting together an SDK Lab that should be a hit.

Plrease note this is for TAP Partners only

To become a TAP Partner or want more information visit http://vmware.com/partners/alliances/programs/

See below for event details....

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Folks,

Just wanted to let you know that we have added VProbes into our Developer Community. There is a lot of exciting performance monitoring development happening in this area and think the good folks from R&D would be excited to hear about your experiences with the APIs. If you want to learn more about VProbes check out Keith's blog.

http://x86vmm.blogspot.com

Be the first to post on the community ! http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/vprobes

-Pablo

ps. In case you are wondering about the aquarium photo. Image above is the #1 2008 World Ranking Winner - Photo borrowed from my favorite aquarium store in SF http://www.adana-usa.com/

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.

December 31st 2008 article from NetworkWorld / NY Times recommends our VMware Developer websites as the # 3 Website IT Pros should master...

"..... To get the best real-world feedback on how best to deploy VMware, keep your eyes on the VMware Communities Web site. It’s got user groups in your community and lots of tips from other VMware developers that can help you solve problems faster..."

NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/external/idg/2008/12/31/31idg-Nine-Web-sites.html?em

Network World: http://www.nytimes.com/external/idg/2008/12/31/31idg-Nine-Web-sites.html?em

Big Thanks to our VMware community of developers for your contributions !!

Pablo Roesch
VI SDK Product Marketing
http://vmware.com/developer

Folks,

We just published the VI API Performance Video for developers building performance monitoring applications..

Sit back, grab some warm tea and enjoy the show.

http://download3.vmware.com/media/partners/techexchange/vi05.html

Also, In case you have not noticed the Developer Community page has gone through some small changes in terms of look and feel.. this is the first installation of our infrastructure improvement efforts. Thanks Robert D and team !

http://vmware.com/developer

Folks - we had an update/correction on our Peformance Counters - you can download the latest doc here, it will take us a few days to upload to our doc server.
On page 6: Table 3: Performance Counters - Under column Name - consumed

Latest Version:
Document Revision 2008-Nov-03 (as indicated on the very last page)
File Name: technote_PerformanceCounters-11-03-08.pdf

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Folks,

SDK Developer Support Team has put together a pretty good Technical Note describing details on our Performance Counters. The document will live on our Tech Notes Site

CORRECT URL:

http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/1067 and be incorporated into our next SDK release.

Hope this is helpful - send us your feedback

Regards,

Pablo

Folks just wanted to let everyone know we have clarified our VI SDK license agreement and have also identified binaries that can be redistributed. Take a look at our FAQ and License Agreement - please let us know if you have any questions or feedback.

VI SDK License Agreement
http://www.vmware.com/downloads/download.do?downloadGroup=VC-SDK

VI SDK FAQs
http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-7983

In case you want to see a list of our partners using our SDKs to build commercial products visit:http://wwwa.vmware.com/partnercatalog/catalog/

Regards,

Pablo