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Folks,

We had a great time at the Portland VMUG - the people are friendly and the weather was great.

Links for folks that are interested in using PowerShell, or Perl to pull performance data.

PowerShell, Perl Sample Code Perfomance Sample Code

PowerCLI Community: http://vmware.com/go/powercli

Addition Performance Information http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9840

Folks,

Thanks for attending yesterdays Coffee Talk

Slides

Download MP3 Chargeback Recording

Folks,

We have been having problems uploading these files from Technology Exchange Developer Day. We will also have a Live Coffee Talk Webinar coming up in December.

Regards,

Pablo

MP3 Download VS05

PDF Download VSphere_Client_Plug-ins

Folks,

Happy to say that we will have a vSphere APIs for Performance monitoring session at the upcoming Portland VMUG. Ravi and Balaji will be presenting the extremely popular session. We have also invited Mr Scott Herold from the VESI to present.  Should be a great day packed with lots of great topics. Hope to see you there.

Event Information: http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmug/us-west/portland

Sessions:

vSphere APIs for Performance Monitoring

Extending PowerCLI to Enterprise Applications with Virtualization EcoShell

Regards,

Pablo Roesch

Folks,

Found some fun videos thought I would share. They are not about the latest APIs or sample code posted - just some fun interesting videos folks have created.

VMware Virtualized Hardware Hotel ... If the server goes down...

VMware vCenter SRM New Features - by Maria B. VMware R&D

Live IT. Love IT. VMware IT

Folks,

Just wanted to remind everyone about the upcoming November 4th Coffee Talk Webinar on vCenter ChargeBack APIs.

Abstract: This session is going to cover ways for developers to integrate with vCenter Chargeback product based on the REST APIs. It will provide a brief architectural and API overview and cover some of the common APIs that will be used for integration. We will walk through some of the common integration use cases and have plenty of time for questions and answers.

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Hemanth Kumar Pannem
Title: Sr. MTS, Cloud Service Mgmt & Automation

Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Time: 9:00 pm, Pacific Standard Time (GMT -08:00, San Francisco)
Meeting Number: 924 407 157
Web Ex Link: https://vmware.webex.com/vmware/j.php?ED=122550787&UID=0
Toll free: 1-888-253-4037
Toll: 1-719-867-0591
Tie: 650-3330
Participant Passcode: 166373
Intl Toll Free http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-10842

Folks,

Thanks for attending this mornings Coffee Talk session. We had a great time bringing this to you and hope it was useful.

I think the next Webinar we will experiment with streaming live video to allow for real time white board sessions.

Judging from the questions we had this event was received extremely well. I think one of the key things to walk away is that our vSphere APIs are extremely powerful and should be used with caution when pulling in information about your environment.

In fact this was one of the top support call topics we saw in the past but we have been noticing over the last year that these types of webinars help our developers and admins build better solutions.

Wanted to thank the folks out there especially the ones that were up at 3:00 AM !

Link to MP3: Download VSphere-Perf-APIs

Link to Web Ex, and PDF http://communities.vmware.com/thread/233040

Picture of Balaji and Ravi driving in the vSphere API Ferrari on the way to the next Coffee Talk !
  

Folks,

Our marketing team put together a nice poster with all the PowerCLI commandlets for your enjoyment. We handed some out during VMworld and have a few hardcopies left. Here is a PDF for folks that are interested.

Regards,

Pablo

 Download Powercli-poster

Folks,

This has been an extremely popular session for folks building vSphere Performance monitoring solutions. This is a repeat from our Tech Exchange Developer Day Session for folks that could not attend. We as always will have plenty of time for questions and answers. We have also increased the number of phone lines.

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/233040

Session Title: vSphere APIs for Perfomance Monitoring
WebEx Link: https://vmware.webex.com/vmware/j.php?ED=122254987&UID=0
Meeting Number: 924 708 011
Time: 9:00 AM PST
Toll free: 1-888-253-4037
Participant Passcode: 325665
Toll: 1-719-867-0591
Int Toll Free: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-10703

Session Abstract:
Understand the features available to developers via vSphere Web Services APIs to
collect performance statistics and discuss best practices in collecting performance
data when using these APIs. This presentation is a must-attend for any developer
that retrieves performance information from the vSphere platform in any large environment.
While the content is advanced, developers new to the platform will find it useful.

Level: Advanced

Folks,

Wanted to point out something new you might have spotted in the vMA Resources:

Here is a link to this resource: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-10772

Above document is a list that will be open to the community to edit and view where a third party that has tested their script/agent on vMA can add their Agent/Script to the list.

The sole purpose of this document's is to make it transparent to the community on which agents/scripts are compatible with vSphere Management Assistant(vMA) that are created by Third Party.

Hence if you are a third party that wants to publish that their agent/script is vMA compatible, this is the place!

Note: Maintenance of this document is a community effort and VMware does not endorse or imply support for any of the agents/scripts listed.

This is simply a way for people to keep track of what's worked on vMA.

Thank you,

The SDK Team.