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cedricmora18
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‎08-13-2009 01:54 AM

Try to do some remote operations of VCenter without VCenter

Hello everybody ,

I'm doing an internship in a company who wants to offer in-house to some users, the management of virtual machines (installing an OS, reboot/start/stop a VM, limit the resources of a VM, ...). I know that VCenter can do this as we have a licence and are using it... bu for safety reasons they want me to not use VCenter.

I would like to develop a securised web application which could be able to do some of these operations...

Do you think it's possible?

Thanks to all of you!

Cédric

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arpitmpatel13
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‎08-13-2009 04:52 AM

You can do this using VI SDK which is freely available from VMware resources....

Thanks

Please mark if correct or helpful...

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admin
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‎08-13-2009 05:00 AM

You can do that easily with Orchestrator. Write the workflows that represent the operations you want the users to have, then expose them with webViews.

Sia

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cedricmora18
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‎08-13-2009 05:48 AM

Thank you!

So theorically, I could be able to install remotely an OS on a Virtual Machine (taking an OS on a DVD) through a web application?

Does both solutions, that you talked about, work?

Which is the best one?

Cédric

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‎08-18-2009 12:21 AM

All solutions are pretty the same: vCO (solutions provided by Sia) use the VI API, but allow you to easily show your "code" (workflows) to end users using the web views.

About the "remote installation of OS", I think you'll need (in both case) some answer file (for Windows, it's named unattend.txt or .inf)

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