It’s August and that means VMworld is right around the corner! Last year, we had an unprecedented amount of PowerCLI and automation-based sessions and that trend has continued this year! There are more sessions, a re-vamped PowerCLI Hands-On-Lab, not one but two expert-led PowerCLI Hands-On Lab time slots, a Hackathon training session, and there are more vBrownBag & VMware {code} Power sessions than I can count! If you haven’t already registered, the time is quickly ticking away!

Make sure to add the following sessions to your schedule and catch up with the PowerCLI team and the amazing PowerCLI community members!

Sessions

Session: DEV3504BU – Development at VMware: A Look at How PowerCLI Has Evolved Over the Years
Date: Monday, Aug 27, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Speakers: Kamen Nikolov & Kyle Ruddy
Kamen and Kyle will give attendees a behind the scenes look into the PowerCLI development process and the many ways PowerCLI has evolved over the last 10+ years.

Session: VIN2661BU – Start Automating All The Things with PowerCLI
Date: Tuesday, Aug 28, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Speakers: Seth Crosby & Kyle Ruddy
Seth and Kyle will help attendees get more comfortable with using automation tools like PowerShell and PowerCLI. This session will feature an introductory overview, followed by several examples which attendees can start using in their environments immediately!

Session: VIN1709BU – Mac and Linux Users, Don’t Despair: PowerCLI Is There!
Date: Tuesday, Aug 28, 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Speakers: Luc Dekens & Alan Renouf
Luc and Alan will discuss how PowerShell and PowerCLI have gone multi-platform, what impact that has on your environment and your existing code, plus some keys to success.

Session: HCI2522BU – Getting Started with vSAN Automation
Date: Tuesday, Aug 28, 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Speakers: Alan Renouf & William Lam
Alan and William show attendess how to get started automating all the aspects of vSAN with tools such as PowerCLI and the vSAN management SDKs.

Session: VIN1992BU – A Deep(er) Dive with PowerCLI 10
Date: Wednesday, Aug 29, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Speakers: Luc Dekens & Kyle Ruddy
Luc and Kyle will take a look at the more advanced use-cases when using PowerCLI to automate actions in your environment. From proper object handling to diagnosing speed issues to debugging and more, this session is going to be a deep dive into the “what’s possible” with PowerCLI.

Session: NET1528BU – PowerNSX: Bringing the Power of PowerCLI to VMware NSX Data Center
Date: Wednesday, Aug 29, 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Speakers: Nicholas Bradford & Anthony Burke
Nick and Anthony will show attendees what PowerNSX is and how to use it to help automate anything from ad hoc queries to complete NSX data center logical topologies.

Session: HCI2061BU – Forget Click, Click, Click: Manage vSAN at Scale with PowerCLI
Date: Wednesday, Aug 29, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Speakers: Jase McCarty & Kyle Ruddy
Jase and Kyle will take an in-depth look at the ways vSAN can be managed with PowerCLI to easily achieve consistency and repeatability at scale.

Session: DEV2828BU – Automating IT Ops with Dispatch Serverless Framework
Date: Wednesday, Aug 29, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Speakers: Alan Renouf & Berndt Jung
Alan and Berndt show off the power of serverless with Dispatch. Attendees will see how to setup and configure Dispatch, plus how to control event triggers with familiar tools, like PowerCLI, and existing scripts.

Session: NET1642BU – NSX-PowerOps: Day2 Ops, NSX Health, Security, and Automated Documentation
Date: Wednesday, Aug 29, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Speakers: Hammad Alam & Puneet Chawla
Hammad and Puneet will discuss a community-built tool, NSX-PowerOps, which uses tools like PowerCLI and PowerNSX to create documentation of your environment.

Session: VIN3327BU – Documenting Your Virtual Infrastructure with PowerShell and PowerCLI
Date: Wednesday, Aug 29, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Speakers: Tim Carman & Matthew Allford
Tim and Matthew take the burden of documentation and applies it to an open-sourced project which helps to document environments using nothing but PowerCLI.

VMware {code} Power Sessions

Session: CODE5560U – Closer look at vSphere programming and CLI interfaces
Date: Tuesday, Aug 28, 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Vikas Shitole
Vikas will show off the wide variety of APIs, CLIs, and SDKs available for use with vSphere and how to get started with each one.

Session: CODE5547U – Deep dive into the Horizon View APIs & PowerShell module
Date: Tuesday, Aug 28, 1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Speaker: Wouter Kursten
Wouter shows off some of the fantastic new cmdlets that have been created and added to the Horizon View Helper module which can be used to enable PowerCLI based automation of Horizon View.

Session: CODE5549U – A better way to see PowerCLI data
Date: Tuesday, Aug 28, 1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Jake Blecha
Jake will show how to wrangle all the object data PowerCLI can return to get access to what you’re looking for in the format you want.

Session: CODE5540U – PowerCLI Lint
Date: Tuesday, Aug 28, 2:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Speaker: Justin Sider
Justin will apply the concept of Linting and unity testing to PowerCLI code and introduce some tools to help make the process easier so you can write better and re-usable code.

Session: CODE5622U – It’s Magic! Automating VMware Cloud on AWS
Date: TBD
Speaker: Ryan Kelly
Ryan discusses how to start interacting with the VMware Cloud on AWS APIs with PowerCLI to automate your scalable, highly resilient, infrastructure in the cloud.

vBrownBag Sessions

Session: VMTN5513U – vDeploy – PowerCLI only method to fully deploy a VM
Date: Monday, Aug 27, 1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Speaker: Russell Hamker
Russell will walk you through vDeploy, covering what it is, how to use it, and what it supports so you can automate the deployment of a Windows VM to any environment.

Session: VMTN5522U – Automating Troubleshooting with vSphere Operations Manager
Date: Monday, Aug 27, 1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Thom Greene
Thom will show how to leverage the vRealize Operations PowerCLI module to automate your troubleshooting workflows.

Session: VMTN5535U – Strategies to starting with PowerCLI
Date: Monday, Aug 27, 5:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Speaker: Seth Crosby
Seth will take you through a handful of valuable strategies for helping you overcome what is holding you back from managing your VMware infrastructure like a pro, with PowerCLI.

Session: VMTN5605U – Getting Started with GitHub for PowerCLI Users
Date: Tuesday, Aug 28, 5:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Speaker: Justin Sider
Justin will walk through a few different typical scenarios that system administrator experience and how GitHub can solve those issues. From public to private to internal repositories, attendees will gain an understanding how what each are, how to use the, and even some tips on securing them.

Session: VMTN5597U – Powershell, it’s not just for Windows anymore
Date: Wednesday, Aug 29, 10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Chris Nakagaki
Chris will demonstrate how to easily get up and running with PowerShell Core and PowerCLI on a Mac or Linux system, and where it could possibly go from here.

Session: VMTN5614U – Gentle Shutdown of a 2-node Starwind HCI Cluster using PowerCLI
Date: Thursday, Aug 30, 1:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Speaker: Matt Langguth
Matt will walk you through an issue with StarWind HCI clusters and how PowerCLI can come to the rescue and overcome the issue.

Meet the Experts

Session: Automate Your VMware Cloud on AWS Environment with Paul Gifford
Date: MTE5097U – Sunday, Aug 26, 3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Come meet with Paul to discuss the automation of VMware Cloud on AWS with tools like PowerCLI.

Session: vSphere Automation and VMware Cloud on AWS with William Lam
Date: MTE5013U – Tuesday, Aug 28, 1:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Come meet with William to discuss vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS based automation.

Session: PowerCLI with Kyle Ruddy
Date 1: MTE5063U – Wednesday, Aug 29, 3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Date 2: MTE5007U – Thursday, Aug 30, 10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Come meet with Kyle to discuss any thoughts, ideas, issues, or anything that comes to mind regarding PowerCLI.

Hands on Labs

Lab: SPL-1911-05-SDC_U – VMware vSphere Automation – PowerCLI
Date: Anytime the HOL area is open and available
Get hands-on with VMware PowerCLI. Gain familiarity with the tool, and then dive deeper into the functionality available with real world examples. Both new and experienced users are sure to learn something new about automating their environments.

Session: ELW-1911-05-SDC_U – Expert-Led Workshop – VMware vSphere Automation – PowerCLI
Date 1: Monday, Aug 27, 2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Date 2: Tuesday, Aug 28, 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Speaker: Howard Shoobe
Howard will show attendees how to get hands-on with VMware PowerCLI. You will gain familiarity with the tool, and then dive deeper into the functionality available with real world examples.

Hackathon

And last, but certainly not least, the VMware {code} Hackathon! If you’ve never been or haven’t heard of it, this is a fantastic event to get involved with other community members to do some coding! There’s no requirement to know how to code whatsoever. In fact, there are some trainings running before the Hackathon to help you get orientated.

Session: CODEHACK – VMware {code} Hackathon
Date: Monday, Aug 27, 6:30 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Join VMware {code} for the third annual hackathon!

Session: HACK6013U – PowerShell Primer: Prepping for Hackathon Success!
Date: Monday, Aug 27, 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Speaker: Kyle Ruddy
Kyle will cover a number of scenarios to help attendees get up to speed so they can use PowerShell to succeed in their Hackathon quest.

Summary

If you’re looking for PowerCLI content, VMworld is the place to be this year! With 10 sessions, over 10 community sessions, multiple meet the experts, and several hands-on activities, there’s something for everyone regardless of skill level. Make sure you’re registered for VMworld and get these sessions added to your schedule today!