Would you believe it, VMworld is already right around the corner! This year, VMworld has all kinds of sessions related to PowerCLI. From the introduction and deep dive sessions to more specifically focused sessions on VMware Cloud on AWS, vSphere update lifecycle, vSAN, and even Horizon View. There’s also a very special session given by a member of the PowerCLI engineering team which gives a special look at how new features are added automatically! Plus, a bunch of community sourced sessions and the always fantastic Hands-on-Lab! If you haven’t already registered, the time is quickly ticking away!

Schedule builder is already live, so make sure to add the following sessions to your schedule and catch up with the PowerCLI team and all of the amazing PowerCLI community members! And if the session is already full, don’t worry. Join the waitlist and help us move these sessions to larger rooms!

Breakout Sessions

Session: HBI1743BU – Introduction to PowerCLI
Date: Monday, August 26, 02:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Speakers: Brian Bunke & Kyle Ruddy
Brian and Kyle will show how PowerCLI is one of the easiest ways to manage your environment and how you can easily get started in your own environments.

Session: HBI1729BU – PowerCLI Deep Dive
Date: Thursday, August 29, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Speakers: Luc Dekens & Kyle Ruddy
Luc and Kyle are back with another edition of the PowerCLI Deep Dive, where they’ll show you some of the advanced methods they use to make even the hardest of tasks look easy.

Session: HBI1463BU – VMware Cloud on AWS: Advanced Automation Techniques
Date: Wednesday, August 28, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Speakers: William Lam & Kyle Ruddy
William and Kyle will walk you through the available APIs and tooling for VMware Cloud on AWS, then demonstrate they can be used to automate all aspects of the SDDC lifecycle and workload consumption.

Session: HCI1864BU – Automating vSAN from CLI to API: PowerCLI, Govc, and Beyond
Date: Wednesday, August 28, 09:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Speakers: Cedric Rajendran & Dharmesh Bhatt
Cedric and Dharmesh will show how to automate some of the routine vSAN tasks using the wide variety of APIs and CLIs available and at your disposal.

Session: HCI1825BU – Automate VMware HCI Deployments at Any Scale with PowerCLI
Date: Wednesday, August 28, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Speakers: Shane Limbach & Jase McCarty
Shane and Jase will show you how to harness the power of PowerCLI to build, manage, and report on your vSAN environment regardless of scale.

VMware {code} Sessions

Session: CODE2214U – How PowerCLI Makes Configuration Management Easy
Date: Tuesday, August 27, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Speaker: Kyle Ruddy
Kyle will cover some configuration management principles and then dive in to show the latest ways PowerCLI is using PowerShell DSC to make vSphere configuration management easy.

Session: CODE1817UR – Automating vCenter Server Appliance Update Lifecycle
Date: Wednesday, August 28, 09:00 AM – 09:30 AM
Speaker: David Stamen
David will show off his new community module for PowerCLI which can be used to ease the lifecycle management of the vCenter Server Appliance.

Session: CODE2649U – How PowerCLI Gives Day 1 Access to the Latest VMware APIs
Date: Wednesday, August 28, 04:00 PM – 04:30 PM
Speaker: Nikola Klinkachev
Nikola, an engineer on the PowerCLI team, will provide a “look behind the curtain” when it comes to how PowerCLI can automatically interact with the latest and greatest APIs.

Session: CODE1316UR – Horizon 7 Automation 101: How to Get Started with the Horizon API
Date: Wednesday, August 28, 09:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Date: Thursday, August 29, 09:00 AM – 09:30 AM
Speaker: Jack McMichael
Jack will provide an overview of the Horizon 7 API and how PowerCLI can be leveraged to simplify the automation process for those Horizon environments.

VMTN TechTalk Sessions

Session: VMTN5040U – Beginning PowerShell from Cmdlet to Function
Date: Tuesday, August 27, 05:30 PM – 05:45 PM
Speaker: Mike Nelson
Mike will cover a quick introduction to PowerShell, as well as PowerCLI, to help you down the path of getting started with PowerShell.

Session: VMTN5004U – ReportCardPS – Create Pretty Reports Using PowerCLI and Clarity
Date: Wednesday, August 28, 01:00 PM – 01:15 PM
Speaker: Justin Sider
Justin will show you how to easily combine the reporting power of PowerCLI with the UI stylings of clarity to create amazing reports.

Session: VMTN5026U – Automating VDI Tasks, the story of the life of a VDI admin
Date: Thursday, August 29, 01:00 PM – 01:30 PM
Speaker: Chris Hildebrandt
Chris will tell you his personal story of how he learned to automate his daily tasks with, amongst other things, PowerCLI to make him more productive as a VDI administrator.

Hands on Labs

Lab: SPL-2012-01-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-2012-01-SDC_U – Expert-Led Workshop – VMware vSphere Automation – PowerCLI
Date: Tuesday, August 27, 02:15 PM – 03:45 PM
Date: Thursday, August 29, 08:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Speaker: Peter Kieren
Peter 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.

Summary

VMworld US 2019 continues to be the premier event to learn about PowerCLI. Come hear directly from the PowerCLI team, as well as numerous community members, how you can harness PowerCLI to automate even the most difficult of tasks.

Make sure you’re registered for VMworld today!

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!