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Scripting VMware Power Tools: Automating Virtual Infrastructure Administration
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This book covers the native tools that VMware provides with ESX Server. It then
discusses in detail the different scripting API's and how they can be leveraged
to provide some very useful, practical and time saving tools to manage a virtual
infrastructure. From virtual server provisioning to backups and everything in
between, all are covered in detail with real world examples that have been tested
and will work either copied directly from the book or with slight modifications
for the reader's specific environments.
This book is a one stop shop for virtual tools. VMware provides the most robust
virtualization platform in the market and it has very cool management tools
like VirtualCenter and the MUI. Yet more often then not, the most overlooked
and most powerful management tools are either not considered ort unknown. These
are the native command line tools and scripting possibilities the ESX Server
has built right in it. From simple shell scripts to COM and Perl and new in
ESX Server 2.5 Common Information Model (CIM) VMware provides API's to access
your virtual infrastructure and leverage 100% of its functionality.
Additionally, VMware has included outstanding command line tools the provide
powerful possibilities for those willing to use them. The scripts found in this
book have been used in real world engagements and deployments of ESX Server.
The reader will be able to copy almost directly with very little customization
if any. By combining the graphical tools such like those found in the MUI and
VirtualCenter with the power you'll find with the scripts detailed within the
following chapters, you will be able to get under the hood of your virtual infrastructure,
tune it up and make it purr.
About the Author
Al Muller is a VMware Certified Professional as well as a MCSE and CCNA. He
has planned, designed, and implemented a number of server consolidation and
virtualization projects and currently works as a Senior Consultant for Callisma.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from San Diego State University.
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