Chapter 14. Using vSphere Management Assistant
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Deploying the vMA appliance
- Preparing VMware vMA for first use
- Configuring VMware vMA to join an existing domain
- Adding vCenter to vMA with AD authentication
- Adding vCenter to vMA with fastpass (fpauth) authentication
- Adding an ESXi host to vMA
- Reconfiguring an added target server
- Running CLI commands on target servers
- Updating the vMA
Introduction
vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) is a Linux appliance that enables remote management of your vSphere environment via its command-line interface. The tool does not offer a graphical user interface. It was originally developed to replace the service console to run scripts or agents that are programmed to interact ...
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