DoubleCloud => Private Cloud + Public Cloud

While using Docker command lines, I found it’s sometime a bit confusing to deal with containers. For the underlying operating system, a container is like a process. That is why the docker command use “ps” as the command to list these commands.

However, the typical “ps” command lists all the running processes. When a process dies, it is gone and there is no need to list it at all. For the containers, the story is different. The container can also be stopped, paused, which is different from running state. But you can still bring them back to running state later.  Read more...

You may have read blogs from my colleagues Mike DiPetrillo, Duncan Epping about the VMware Script-O-Mania contest. The prizes are $2,500 (1^st), $1,000 (2^nd), and $500(3^rd) respectively. The contest ends in March 15, 2010. So act quickly!

“Wait, how can I WIN the prizes?”

Well, first of all, you want to read carefully the criteria. Note that your script is for System Administrators with ESXi. So it could be for initial server set up, health monitoring, trouble shooting, reporting auditing, or anything else that is cool and creative. I suggest you talk to system administrators what REAL PAINS they have, and how they would like to fix the problems.

When you are clear what problems to solve, then let’s move on.

If you are already familiar with PowerCLI and RCLI, you should probably stick with them. You can get helps from VMware Developer Community.

If not, open source VI Java API can help you!

Here are 4 ways the API can do for you to win the $2,500:  Read more...