1. Overview and DEMOnstration of vPI for the RASPBERRY PI

2. whois Sean Duffy (@shogan85) I blog / write in a few different places…
shogan.co.uk
hobbyistcoder.com
Simple-Talk.com
I live in the UK, but am originally from South Africa
I am a VMware/Virtualisation evangelist/enthusiast and have vExpert status for 2012/2013
I am actually qualified as a Graphic Designer, but left the industry to work in IT
Working as a Consultant / Developer at Xtravirt Limited
I <3 memes
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3. Raspberry Pi What exactly is the Raspberry Pi? It is not a dessert
It is, a credit card sized computer, capable of many things
Model B has 700 MHz default clock speed with 512 MB RAM

4. vPi Community supported Image for Raspberry Pi
Main focus is on VMware Integration
“Management toolbox” solution
Perl CPAN 1.98
VMware vSphere Perl SDK build
Python 2.7.3
Ruby & Rubygems
Ruby vSphere Console (
vGhetto Scripts – built as DEB package from William Lam. Includes a custom vGhetto update script to easily update the scripts from William’s Sourceforge repository
ESXCLI 5.1 (a special ARM compiled version allowing it to run on the Raspberry Pi hardware)
vmkfstools 5.1.0
Misc. software: ngnix-light, PPTP Client, ifstat, iftop, subversion client, tmux

5. What can we do with vPi? Manage VMware Infrastructure Report Script
Automate
Monitor
Integrate

6. Demo

7. Home Lab environment

8. Questions OR Feel free to raise hand / ask now
Xtravirt forums (xtravirt.com/forums)
Twitter