Today is day two of VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas. VMware CTO Steve Herrod got on stage with his technology deep dives into various products and new projects around the cloud story – “your cloud, own it.” Again this is based on my note and memory, and has not reviewed by anyone. Mistakes are all mine.
Today is day one of VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas. The most important part is of course the keynotes by CEO Paul Maritz and Co-President Carl Eschenbach. The following is based on my personal note and has not reviewed by anyone. All the mistakes and errors are mine and only mine.
After the vSphere 5.0 was released, I checked the vSphere Web Services SDK documentation page. Upon clicking the vSphere API Reference link, I got into the vSphere 5.0 Documentation Center as follows:
It’s a bit surprise to me. First of all, I like the integrated approach where you can find all the information related to vSphere 5.0: from user manual to SDK/CLIs, and even links to communities/blogs. Also, you have nice features like bookmark, search and printing, etc.
Now that vSphere 5 just GAed today, I am happy to announce the public beta of VI Java API Crescendo release. Based on the feedbacks I got from the community, especially William Lam, I decided the new version to be 5.0 beta so that we can sync up with the vSphere 5.0.
Because vSphere 5.0 is now released, I can talk about the changes of the API in public. As you may have heard me saying many times, management APIs are the “view” to the product. New features can be exposed via APIs. Understanding the changes in APIs helps you understand the product itself.
The API Reference 5.0 has the first page “New and Changed Managed Object Elements in 5.0” summarizing all the changes. To support vSphere 5.0 in new VIJava API , I’ve gone through all these changes. I will write a separate article on VIJava new release soon.
There are many programming languages today, sometimes too many to choose from for a new project. The good thing is that there aren’t many main stream programming languages, so picking one is not a daunting task. And almost all main stream languages can achieve similar things, meaning any one of them will work. So in the end it’s really a matter of team preference and sometimes company policy.
As part of the VMworld #vMeetups in the Community Lounge, this developer/administrator (a.k.a. devops) meet up will take place on August 30th from 12PM to 1PM at VMworld Community Louge, located just outside the entrance to the solution exchange. Because it’s lunch hour, please feel free to bring your lunch.
This event offers you a unique opportunity to meet and network with other professionals who create or use VMware APIs and CLIs for integration and automation.
A question was recently posted at the open source VI Java API forum regarding the uniqueness of MOIDs. The developer who raised the question wanted to build a caching on the client side so as to avoid getting back to the server for the name of a virtual machine with its MOID. If MOID doesn’t resonate with you, you may want to read this post before reading on.
Cloud bursting means workload moves from one cloud to another on the fly. With differentiation of public cloud and private cloud, you can have 4 different permutations: private to public, private to private, public to public, and public to private.
What people talk about the most is the case of private to public cloud. Think about the case in which
It’s probably fair to say anyone working in software knows a term called platform. It’s a term borrowed from transportation industry, where a raised and flat space on which passengers trains in a station. In software, it means something you can leverage, either an environment for running your software or a development library for building your applications.
Like many things in software, platform has never had a clear definition. Different people basically have their own versions of definitions. That is not necessarily a bad thing – at least it helped
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