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After my presentation yesterday, I had more time on the break-out sessions and self paced lab today.

Accelerate Your Services With VMware Services Automation Tools

This session is by Budianto Bong, VMware Sr. Product Manager. He demoed three tools from VMware PSO that help consulting partners: Migration Manager, Desktop Reference Architecture Workload Simulator, and HealthAnalyzer. The first one is not the P2V converter, but a management tool that tracks, manages, and reports large scale migration projects.

Using the VMware vSphere PowerCLI for Automated Installation And Configuration of ESXi and vCenter for ISV Partners

This is a joint presentation by VMware TAM Ken Brady, and CareFusion network engineer Fisk Shogren. Ken introduced the basics of PowerCLI and VMware TAP programs. Fish showed off his PowerShell code that is used to set up the environment, which took 2 days, if lucky, of manual work before. It’s a great example on how much you can get by automating vSphere API, particularly with PowerCLI. I handed over my business card so that Fisk can show more of his code later.

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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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The day started with the keynote by Carl with lots of coverages on cloud computing and what that means for VMware partners. Backed by virtualization, cloud computing brings in efficiency, agility and freedom of choice to the cloud adopters. It’s interesting to see that even CostcoConnection has an article about “computing in the cloud.”

After the keynote, I went to the self paced lab and then the Exhibit Hall. That is the most fun part for me to be in a VMware conference. I can see how our partners use our technologies and product, how they use our SDKs/APIs, what more they want from us in terms of partner enablement. You don’t normally see so many demos in time and have deep conversations face to face. 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.

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Besides the talks on VMware APIs, two self paced labs are there for you to try out the vSphere SDK and PowerShell at PEX. More details are quoted in later part.

As a bonus, you will get a chance to learn VI Java API in the SDK lab. Thanks to VMware TAM Alton Yu for making this happen! I will be there when I am not presenting my talk “Architecting Your Applications for VMware Cloud”, or helping on the BOF, genius bar, etc.

Note that pre-registration for Self-Paced Labs is not available. Lab attendance is on a first-come, first-served basis. Drop by to attend a lab in room Mandalay D. Lab hours are available in the onsite pocket guide.

SPLIBP1020 Intro to vSphere Web Services API (i.e. SDK)

This lab will provide training on how to integrate your products with VMware environment. Attendees will get an opportunity to try out the tools provided via vSphere Web Services SDK. These tools perform a variety of functions related to automation, integration, management and extension of VMware environments and virtual machines. Participants will have their choice of using Java or C#. You will walk away from the lab with a better understanding of vSphere, resources for using the SDK, and the essential skills for building the most common types of integrations. Exercises will cover a variety of scenarios such as examining VM attributes, performing the same task on many VMs at a time and triggering tasks based on policies. We will also touch upon performance enhancements and exporting data to enable this. This lab requires some basic programming experience, ideally in C# or Java.  

SPLIV0002 Managing the vSphere Infrastructure with PowerShell

This lab will provide hands on training for scripting a VMware environment. The goal of this lab is to provide all the tools needed to automate, integrate, and extend vCenter for your environment. Participants will use the Microsoft PowerShell based PowerCLI for scripting Virtual Center and ESX.

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.