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Lately I’ve been doing a lot of work with our vCloud API. If you’re like me and know what’s going on or if you just want to find out about the API then make sure to not miss a live coffee talk this Wednesday at noon Eastern.

Here’s all of the details:

Title: vCloud APIs – Architecture, Integration
Abstract: VMware vCloud delivers a single way to run, manage, and secure your applications where you want them, when you want them. The vCloud API is an interface for providing and consuming virtual resources in the cloud. It enables deploying and managing virtualized workloads in internal or external clouds as well as interoperability between clouds. In this session you will see the significant innovation that went into architecting a highly available, scalable, extensible, and secure multi-tenant application
Level: Advanced, knowledge of vSphere API helpful but not required.
Speaker: Prasad Pimplaskar, Ecosystem Engineering
Starting date: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 
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Tags: API, vcloud

Earlier this year VMware released the VMware Infrastructure Toolkit (for Windows). This was a new PowerShell interface for VMware Infrastructure 3. I’m a big fan of the power and simplicity of PowerShell so I thought I’d try to create something with the script and show it off during my talk at VMworld on Deploying VMware in a Microsoft Shop. The question is what do I create? Well, there has been some great debate of Microsoft’s Quick Migration and VMware’s VMotion and are they equal or not, do they solve the same problems, etc. This post isn’t to go back into that debate. One of the things that was also brought up over and over again in the debate was the fact that Quick Migration was free and came with Hyper-V since it was based on Microsoft Clustering whereas VMware VMotion was only available in the most expensive Enterprise SKU of VMware Infrastructure. So there it was – I need to create Quick Migration for the lower priced and free VMware solutions. I went off, built my little script, and showed it off at VMworld. There was a GREAT response to it so I’m posting it here for others to use or improve upon however you see fit.

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Tags: API, powershell, VMware