This book contains simple and advanced scripting using both esx and linux commands to provide awesome virtual tools to automate administrative tasks of esx server this book will cover the native tools that vmware provides with esx server it will then discuss in detail the different scripting apis and how they can be leveraged to provide some very useful practical and time saving tools to manage a virtual infrastructure from virtual server provisioning to backups and everything in . This book contains simple and advanced scripting using both esx and linux commands to provide awesome virtual tools to automate administrative tasks of esx server this book will cover the native tools that vmware provides with esx server it will then discuss in detail the different scripting apis and how they can be leveraged to provide some very useful practical and time saving tools to manage a virtual infrastructure from virtual server provisioning to backups and everything in . This book contains simple and advanced scripting using both esx and linux commands to provide awesome virtual tools to automate administrative tasks of esx server this book will cover the native tools that vmware provides with esx server it will then discuss in detail the different scripting apis and how they can be leveraged to provide some very useful practical and time saving tools to manage a virtual infrastructure from virtual server provisioning to backups and . This book covers the native tools that vmware provides with esx server it then discusses in detail the different scripting apis and how they can be leveraged to provide some very useful practical and time saving tools to manage a virtual infrastructure from virtual server provisioning to backups and everything in between all are covered in detail with real world examples that have been tested and will work either copied directly from the book or with slight modifications for the reader