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VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook

By : Abhilash G B
Book Image

VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook

By: Abhilash G B

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
VMware vSphere 5.5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) is a Linux appliance that enables remote management of your vSphere environment via its command-line interface. The tool does not offer a graphical user interface. It was originally developed to replace the service console to run scripts or agents that are programmed to interact with the vSphere hosts. It comes packaged with the vSphere CLI (command-line interface) and the Perl SDK. vSphere CLI shouldn't be confused with vSphere Power CLI. While vSphere CLI is a bundle of Linux commands that can interact with the vSphere hosts, the latter is a Windows PowerShell plugin and executes PowerShell cmdlets.

vMA 5.5 is a virtual machine running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and it requires no separate licensing. It has the following components:

  • vSphere CLI

  • vSphere Software Development Kit for Perl

  • Java Runtime Engine (JRE) Version 1.6

  • An authentication component called the "vi-fastpass"

In this chapter, we will learn how to deploy and configure the appliance...