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Virtual Infrastructure Management Assistant aka VIMA

Duncan Epping · Sep 18, 2008 ·

I was just catching up and read this blog from Scott about managing ESXin a COS-less environment. The most interesting part of this blog is the following:

The subject of deployment is a key issue when we think about losing the Service Console. One approach to handling these issues is deploying physical machines; another would be to deploy virtual machines to handle these tasks. Partners could wrap up the agents that would typically be deployed in the Service Console as a virtual appliance, but then users could end up with numerous virtual appliances. What if VMware were to provide a virtual infrastructure management appliance? That’s what VIMA (Virtual Infrastructure Management Assistant) is.

VIMA is a virtual appliance packaged as OVF and is distributed, maintained, and supported by VMware. This is downloaded and installed by the customer according to their management procedures. This will be a well-known deployment environment that partners can rely upon being present. This will be a 64-bit Linux distribution with VMware Tools, VI Perl Toolkit, the Remote CLI (now known as the VI CLI), and a JRE already present. VIMA can be patched for updates, and it allows you to manage one or more VMware ESX hosts directly or through VirtualCenter. VIMA can enable agents to authenticate themselves, and VIMA will rotate its passwords on the hosts. Additionally, sample code and documentation will be available for programming applications to work in VIMA.

Anyone interested in VIMA can e-mail [email protected] and request access to pre-GA versions of VIMA. VIMA is expected for general release in the fourth quarter of this year. All VIMA releases will work with both ESX and ESXi

Read the full article for more info, but this is again an exciting addition to the portfolio. Having an virtual appliance which can contain agents and communicate with your vCenter Server and your ESX(i) host is a real benefit. You can keep the number of agents down to a minimum with the same flexibility and usability.

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  1. Harvey Alcabes says

    17 November, 2008 at 22:41

    VIMA 1.0 is now available; see http://www.vmware.com/go/vima/

    –Harvey Alcabes
    VIMA Product Manager
    VMware, Inc.

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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