vSphere Management Assistant Documentation

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The vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) allows administrators and developers to run scripts and agents to manage ESX/ESXi and vCenter Server systems. vMA is a virtual machine that includes prepackaged software, a logging component, and an authentication component that supports non-interactive login.

When you use the vSphere Client to deploy vMA to an ESX/ESXi host, you can enter the following URL in the Deploy from URL field of the wizard: http://www.vmware.com/go/importvma/vma4.ovf .

You can learn more about vMA and participate in discussions in the vMA Community.

vMA 4.0

Released 21-May 2009

Documentation Resources:

Release Notes
vSphere Management Assistant Guide


vSphere Command-Line Interface documentation
vSphere SDK for Perl documentation

VIMA 1.0

Released 27-October 2008

Documentation Resources:

Release Notes
VMware Infrastructure Management Assistant Administrator's and Developer's Guide

Remote Command-Line Interface Installation and Reference Guide
VI Perl Toolkit Documentation