VCAP-DCA Section 8 Scripting & Automation – Follow-up

We had a decent, if quick show last night, during with we covered VMRun/VIX, PowerCLI, and a few other things. Here are the show notes:

Video:

ProfessionalVMware VCAP-DCA BrownBag – Scripting & Automation from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

Flash Cards:

Here they are… only 5 this time:
http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/1599665

Objectives:

Objective 8.1 PowerCLI Notes:

Getting started with PowerShell – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee221100.aspx
PowerCLI – http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsphere/automationtools/powercli
Update Manager cmd-lets – http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/ps-libs/vumps/
Hal’s book – http://amzn.to/g0WmPc
Sean’s PowerCLI Section – http://www.vfail.net/other-pages/powercli/
Getting Started with PowerCLI – http://www.virtu-al.net/2009/11/10/powercli-where-do-i-start/
My VIX section – https://vbrownbag.comm/?s=vix
Sean’s 8.1 page: http://www.vfail.net/2010/09/07/vcap-dca-objective-8-1-execute-vmware-cmdlets-and-customize-scripts-using-powercli/

Objective 8.2 Orchestrator Notes:

N/A – We didn’t touch on Orchestrator this go around.s

Objective 8.3 vMA Notes:

There are any number of great resources here. Instead of covering this directly in the BrownBag, I decided to self reference a BrownBag we did in the past with Sean Crookston of vFail.net here.

Other Resources:

Saffa Geek’s VCAP Prep page has been updated – http://thesaffageek.wordpress.com/vcap-dca-dcd/
Sean Crookston’s VCAP-DCA page – http://www.vfail.net/vcap-dca/
Sean’s result – http://www.vfail.net/2011/01/04/and-the-vcap-dca-results-are-in/

Summary

As this particular BrownBag was short, and we didn’t cover Orchestrator as well as we should have, so we’ll be doing the next BrownBag specifically on Orchestrator.

As always, if you’ve questions or comments, leave them here or drop a note on twitter.