VMware TechExchange will take place in San Francisco in the same location of VMworld 2010 from August 30 to September 1st. If you want to learn VMware technologies especially APIs/SDKs including Spring framework, Zimbra, and etc., you should join us. I will present best practices on using VMware vSphere APIs. Hopefully we will GA the vSphere(VI) Java API 2.1 by then.
To convince your boss, please read the blog Pablo just wrote:
- vSphere 4.1 APIs has some significant improvements, specifically around the Property Collector and AD authentication. We will have sessions to update you on what has changed, provide best practices when using them and hear from our engineers who have hands on experience working with our APIs. See our latest sessions added Read more »
Author: Steve Jin is the author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall), creator of VMware vSphere Java API. For future articles, please subscribe to RSS or Email, and follow on Twitter.
ComputerWorld just released its 17th annual report Best Places to Work in IT 2010. The criteria used for the selection include diversity, career development, retention, benefits and training. It does not include cutting edge technology though. I think that is pretty important but hard to measure and compare at the same time.
The top 100 companies come from different industries ranging from technology vendors like SAS, salesforce.com, to the customers. The list does not cover companies from other parts of the world. I am sure many companies from Europe, Canada, etc. would have made the list otherwise.
Ready for the list? Read more »
Author: Steve Jin is the author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall), creator of VMware vSphere Java API. For future articles, please subscribe to RSS or Email, and follow on Twitter.
Almost forget to report last Cloud Club meet-up which took place at Santa Clara Convention Center on the night of March 16. The meet-up was conveniently co-located with the CloudConnect 2010 Conference.
We had several great speakers from companies like Makara, Engine Yard, Heroku, Appirio, etc. As you can guess from the speakers’ company profiles, the theme of the meet-up was about PaaS. Each speaker had about 20 minutes to introduce their technologies.
If you didn’t get the chance attending the event, you can still read some of the slides. So far, four presentation slides have been uploaded here:
cloud club – Heroku, Oren’s excellent presentation on the need for PaaS
PaaS seen by Ezra, Ezra’s presentation of PaaS at EngineYard
Makara, Tobias’ presentation of Makara at Cloud Connect
Appirio, Appirio’s presentation at Cloud Club (at Cloud Connect)
Enjoy your reading!
Author: Steve Jin is the author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall), creator of VMware vSphere Java API. For future articles, please subscribe to RSS or Email, and follow on Twitter.
The winners of the VMware Script-O-Mania contest was announced today by Pablo Roesch at VMware Developer Blog. Congratulations to Alan, William and Arnim who won the first three awards!
I just took some time to read these scripts even though PowerShell and Perl are not for me. Here I give you a brief introduction of the scripts, what vSphere APIs they used directly or indirectly, and why they topped the contest. Because vSphere API is based on Web Services, you can port the scripts to other languages like Java, .Net, whatever you feel comfortable with. If you want to port any of them using vSphere Java API, I am more than happy to include your contribution.
Note that the following comments are strictly my own opinions.
1. Who Created that VM ? – by Alan Renouf using PowerCLI
A script to add information back into the vSphere client, this script which is designed to run once a day (or more) as a scheduled task, will add a custom attribute to each VM with the creator and date created of that VM. A script to add information back into the vSphere client, this script which is designed to run once a day (or more) as a scheduled task, will add a custom attribute to each VM with the creator and date created of that VM.
Steve’s Comments:
Nice integration with the vSphere Client, making you almost doubt why it wasn’t there in the first place. Additional one liner scripts provide nice answers to the questions like who created the most VMs, how many VMs were created each month. Read more »
Author: Steve Jin is the author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall), creator of VMware vSphere Java API. For future articles, please subscribe to RSS or Email, and follow on Twitter.
The world’s largest conference in virtualization industry VMWorld is coming. It will take place in San Francisco August 30 to September 2, and in Copenhagen October 12 -14. There will be about 170 unique sessions in the US and 130 unique sessions in EMEA; this includes sessions from VMware employees, customers, sponsors, virtualization vendors and industry specialists.
VMworld 2010 calls for papers now. Presenting at VMworld is a great opportunity to share your experiences and ideas with other professionals in the world. To be selected, the content should be unique and based on real world experiences that could help many attendees.
The topics include:
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud – Management
- Private Cloud – Business Continuity
- Private Cloud – Security
- Enterprise Applications
- Desktop Virtualization
- Technology & Architecture
- Virtualization 101 (US event only)
Everyone will have a chance to vote for the sessions.
This year we will have 2 rounds of Call for Papers Voting. The first will be through a Content Committee consisting of Customers and VMware Employees. The second will be open to the Public and will be accessible on VMworld.com. CFP submissions must be filled out completely in order to make it into Voting.
The Call for Papers will close on April 2nd. Be quick if you want to submit one. More details can be found at VMworld 2010 Call for Papers Guide.
The registration is not open yet, but you can pre-register and get notified once it’s open in 19 days.
Author: Steve Jin is the author of VMware VI and vSphere SDK (Prentice Hall), creator of VMware vSphere Java API. For future articles, please subscribe to RSS or Email, and follow on Twitter.
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