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==== Management Virtual Machines  =====
[[Virtualisation technical articles]]
VMware ESX 3.5 and earlier had the management console, a stripped down linux console which was could be used for automating and managing your virtual machines. As of ESX 3.5i this is no longer available and the future is to move away from the fat hypervisor. In order to manage your virtual machines in a similar way as before, we now have special virtual machines that come with management software pre-installed. VMware delivers 2 appliances for this, the VIMA and the RCLI.


* [http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vima/index.html VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant (VIMA)]
[[VMware KB articles]]


This is a 64bits virtual machine based on RHEL.  
==== Management Virtual Machines  ====
VMware ESX 3.5 and earlier had the management Service Console, a stripped down RHEL console which was could be used for automating and managing your virtual machines. As of ESXi 3.5 this is no longer available and the future is to move away from this "fat hypervisor". In order to manage your virtual machines in a similar way as before, we now have special virtual machine that come with management software pre-installed. VMware delivers this as a virtual appliances called VMware [[VIMA]] containing [[RCLI]] (Remote CLI) and VMware [[VI Perl Toolkit]] to aide in managing your VI infrastructure.


Features that VIMA has over the RCLI:
In vSphere we now use the [[vMA]] appliance, documentation is here http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vcli/
* component for caching authentication
* component for collecting ESX log files (remote logging)
* Designed to host agents that will be released by some 3rd party developers
* Includes a mechanism for VMware to provide updates
* Supported for production use
 
* [http://www.vmware.com/download/download.do?downloadGroup=VI-RCLI Virtual Infrastructure Remote Commandline Interface appliance (RCLI)]
 
This comes in  several flavors.
# You can download it as a small 32 bit virtual machine based on Ubuntu JEOS
# There is a separate linux setup so that you can install it in your own linux machine (virtual or not)
# There is also a windows installed.
 
The appliance has the VI perl toolkit pre-installed, but beware of the following note:
 
'' This version of the VMware Infrastructure Remote CLI is incompatible with VI Perl Toolkit. These two products should be installed on different machines. The next refresh of the Remote CLI will fix this incompatibility.  ''
 
Unfortunately the last RCLI was released on december 2007, so I'm not sure we will see an update on this.

Latest revision as of 12:34, 1 February 2011

Main Index

The starting point for any developer is http://www.vmware.com/developer but as there is a overwhelming amount of information available, we are trying to make it easier accessible on this site.

Hopefully we'll succeed at that over time, it is a pretty high goal. It certainly isn't the case yet, but time will tell.

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PowerShell

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scripts

Projects

Virtualisation technical articles

VMware KB articles

Management Virtual Machines

VMware ESX 3.5 and earlier had the management Service Console, a stripped down RHEL console which was could be used for automating and managing your virtual machines. As of ESXi 3.5 this is no longer available and the future is to move away from this "fat hypervisor". In order to manage your virtual machines in a similar way as before, we now have special virtual machine that come with management software pre-installed. VMware delivers this as a virtual appliances called VMware VIMA containing RCLI (Remote CLI) and VMware VI Perl Toolkit to aide in managing your VI infrastructure.

In vSphere we now use the vMA appliance, documentation is here http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vcli/

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