VMware Script-O-Mania

The VMware ESXi Scripting Contest

VMware Script-O-Mania

Thanks to everyone for participating. The Script-O-Mania contest is closed and winners will be announced March 31, 2010. VMware challenges you to build the best, most creative ESXi management scripts possible. The goal of the ScriptoMania contest is to help our wider community adopt ESXi by providing useful, fun and powerful scripts to manage the ESXi platform. The best part is that we give our winners bragging rights and we put some hard cold cash in your pockets. Are you up to the challenge?

Congratulations to our Winners

Categories & Judge Panel

Criteria

Usefulness: Scripts that automate everyday tasks, and solve a real world problem faced by vSphere Administrators adopting ESXi.
Comprehensiveness: Scripts that automate every day tasks, in a comprehensive nature and provide a broader solution than one stand alone script
Ease of Use: Scripts suitable for non-scripters/programmers, providing easy to use step by step instructions needed by vSphere Administrators adopting ESXi

Scripts can be submitted in one or more of the following 5 categories:

Initial Server Set Up: Any and all common tasks needed to set up and automate server installations. This can be things like jump-start scripts for example.
Health Monitoring: Any and all common tasks needed to automate monitoring of hardware health. This can range from memory, cpu and disks or more.
Troubleshooting: Any and all common tasks related to trouble-shooting ESXI, everything from creating log files, to reporting issues.
Reporting Auditing: Any and all tasks associated with reporting usage, health, and trouble shooting of the ESXi environment
Miscellaneous: Open category for any script that is cool, and shows creativity. We are looking for scripts that shows off your scripting skills, creativity, and your ability to you leverage the powerful vSphere APIs.

Judge Panel

Jeff Hu: VMware R & D
Robert Bosch: VMware R & D
Scott Lowe: Community Member

General Script-O-Mania Guidelines

VMware Employees are not eligible to enter
Unique, original scripts (single or multiple, new meaning created after 12/10/09) for managing VMware ESXi 3.x and up
Products to be used: vSphere PowerCLI , vSphere vCLI or other vSphere API bindings, and VMware solutions. Please remember our target users are administrators
Please help us make your scripts easy to judge and read by following our guidelines
Scripts will be submitted on the Code Central community, and scripts will be contributed back to the community
Winners will be highlighted on our Communities, Hero Spotlight, and Blogs
Youtube video demos of scripts in action are highly recommended. It would also be great if you introduced yourself and provided some background / motivation behind the script. See thread on how to post a video. At the moment, our platform only supports the youtube plug-in. As a guideline please keep videos under 5 minutes.