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vSphere Management Assistant (vMA), for VMware, allows administrators and developers to run scripts and agents to manage ESXi hosts and vCenter Server systems

The vSphere Management Assistant (vMA), for VMware, allows administrators and developers to run scripts and agents to manage ESXi hosts 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.

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https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vima/

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Simply getting a list of all VMs registered on vCenter Server using vMA

Before we had the VCSA (Vcenter Server Appliance) we had a Windows Vcenter Server. We had the PowerCLI installed locally. There, we could say Get-VM -Name * | Sort-Object | %{ .... to get a list of all VMs registered in Vcenter. Now we have the…
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How to assign ESXi permissions to Windows AD user, to operate with VMware vMA?

I follow the instruction in Official vMA Guide 5.1(pdf), and I'm baffled by the following operation(described in p18~p19). I have joined my vMA to my Windows AD velab.chj , reboot vMA, then operate as follows: As you can see, I cannot execute…
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NetApp .Snapshots wont delete

I am working in VMware Vspere client, I am an sys administrator taking over for an Admin who has left. Many users were complaining about space in our Mounted Linux shared drive. So I did some digging and found many .snapshot files which are rather…
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