Get your hands on vCO at VMworld 2013

– August 25, 2013Posted in: Uncategorized

VMworld 2013 is starting tomorrow in San Francisco, as usual providing a real bunch of Hands-on Labs you can get your fingers on all the products.

And of course there is a lot of vCenter Orchestrator stuff represented in these labs (hey, it’s becoming a more and more important component within the VMware vCloud Suite!):

And you can find vCO in quite a few breakout sessions this year:

So if you are attending VMworld this year, make sure to check out these sessions (live, or afterwards on www.vmworld.com)!

If you are not attending: Register yourself at http://hol.vmware.com and check the lab HOL-OPS 07 to get a guided introduction in vCO!

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Some books I found useful when working with vCO…
Steve Jin: VMware VI and vSphere SDK
Steve Jin ( www.doublecloud.org ) focus is on the VI Java Toolkit. However the books also includes a great general introduction of the vSphere API and lots of UML-diagrams of the API data model. Both is very useful when you develop vCO scripts interacting with vCenters
see also
http://www.amazon.com/VMware-VI-vSphere-SDK-Infrastructure/dp/0137153635

David Flanagan: JavaScript – The Definitive Guide
Since all the scripting elements are written in JavaScript, you need at least one book with a JavaScript-reference on your desk.
(Of course, you can find examples all over the web, but in most cases searching in the internet costs more time and distracts more than simply open the reference book on the marked site ).
see also
http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-David-Flanagan/dp/0596101996

Marijn Haverbeke: Eloquent JavaScript
If you are new to JavaScript, most of the books about it out there are do not fit for an vCO-guy because they contain too much web-related stuff.
An exceptional introduction to JavaScript NOT focussing on the web-stuff is "Eloquent JavaScript". The book is really good to read, and best of all: There is an online version available on http://eloquentjavascript.net which contains an interactive JavaScript console. So you can directly test the code examples online in your browser while you read:
The fastest way to learn JavaScript from scratch!
see also
http://www.amazon.com/Eloquent-JavaScript-Modern-Introduction-Programming/dp/1593272820

Cody Bunch: Automating vSphere: With VMware vCenter Orchestrator
http://www.amazon.com/Automating-vSphere-VMware-vCenter-Orchestrator/dp/0321799917

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