This soon to be released training course is completely based on PowerCLI. It equips VMware professionals with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to automate tasks that are performed in a VMware vSphere virtual infrastructure.
• Identify VMware vSphere PowerCLI cmdlets
• Identify how to obtain help with vSphere PowerCLI cmdlets
• Automate ESX/ESXi host storage and network configuration
• Automate virtual machine provisioning
• Automate virtual machine migration
• Automate cluster configuration
• Create reports with vSphere PowerCLI
I've taken a quick look at the beta material and it’s awesome! You’ll never become a PowerCLI expert by just looking at some slides, so this training is equipped with great laboratory exercises like:
vSphere PowerCLI Cmdlet Help, Configuring Virtual Switches, Configuring Storage, Provisioning Virtual Machines, Managing Virtual Machine Configuration, Virtual Machine Migration, Configuring Clustering, Virtual Machine Reporting, Virtual Machine Host Reporting and Cluster Reporting.
Stuck using our vSphere SDKs / APIs ?....Help is on the way.
Our good friends in the VMware Professional Training Organization are putting together a 2 day instructor led course. The course title is “vSphere Automation” The course is about using PowerCLI to manage vSphere. This hands-on training course introduces the use of VMware vSphere™ PowerCLI to automate VMware vSphere 4. This course demonstrates ways to automate tasks that can reduce your IT costs while improving efficiency, availability, flexibility, and manageability. The course is still in limited private beta and hope to see its release in 1H2010.
http://blogs.vmware.com/files/vmware-vsphere-4-0-automation-course-beta-datasheet.pdf
