Nice video showing VMA – The vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)

Video showing VMA.

This video can be seen in HD directly on VMware Channel TV on YouTube.

What is VMA?

It’s basicaly a virtual machine which runs on a Linux distribution. You can see that the deployment from an OVF file takes a few seconds. Inside of the VM there are some packages to manage vSphere environement directly installed, like the vSphere command?line interface, and the vSphere SDK for Perl.

You can use VMA to run scripts or agents that interact with ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server systems without needs for ahthentication every time.  That’s pretty cool.

This video gives an overview of vMA and demonstrates the fastpass feature, which allows you to pass commands to the host or run scripts on the host and only enter the credentials one time. The video also demonstrates the vi-logger feature, which periodically collects the logs from the hosts it manages.

Source: VMware Channel TV

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