Listing Details

Appliance Type

Partner

Description

vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) is a virtual machine for running scripts and agents to manage ESX and ESXi and vCenter Server systems (ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2 or later, ESX/ESXi 4, or vCenter Server 4). vMA includes the latest versions of vSphere CLI, vSphere SDK for Perl, SMI-S, VMware Tools, a logging component, and an authentication component that supports non-interactive login. You can use vMA to perform many of the tasks commonly performed in the ESX service console.

When you use the vSphere Client to deploy vMA as a virtual appliance, you can enter the following URL in the "Import from URL" field of the "Deploy OVF Template" wizard: http://www.vmware.com/go/importvma/vma4.ovf

Features & Benefits

- vSphere Command-Line Interface pre-installed in a virtual machine -- commands for managing multiple vSphere systems, ready to use from the command-line and/or incorporate into scripts
- vSphere SDK for Perl pre-installed in a virtual machine -- ready-to-use environment for creating and running custom Perl scripts that can call the vSphere API to manage vSphere systems
- SMI-S -- enables 3rd party storage management systems for vSphere
- support for select 3rd party agents -- pre-configured environment for 3rd party vSphere management agents designed to run in vMA
- 64-bit Linux environment -- Enterprise quality Linux environment with maintenance patches available from VMware
- supported by VMware -- customers who receive support from VMware Global Support Services for ESX, ESXi, or vCenter can receive support for vMA in the same way

Pricing

Free

Tags & Keywords

vMA, VIMA, management, vSphere CLI, vCLI, Perl

Solution Categories

IT Administration, Systems Infrastructure