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IBM Systems Director VMControl resource lifecycle management: part 2

Remote virtual appliance lifecycle management using the VMControl REST APIs

Piyush Jain (piyushjain@in.ibm.com), Staff Software Engineer, IBM　　

Piyush Jain is a Staff Software Engineer at IBM currently working on VMControl under IBM Systems Director, a critical product in IBM's product portfolio. He has an overall experience of around 6 years and holds a bachelor's degree in Information Technology Engineering from IET Alwar, Rajasthan India. You can contact him at piyushjain@in.ibm.com
(An IBM developerWorks Contributing Author)

Nicholas Schambureck (nschambu@us.ibm.com), Advisory Software Engineer, IBM

Nick Schambureck is an Advisory Software Engineer and Team Leader for the IBM Systems Director VMControl command-line interface and REST API team. He has been working with the project since its inception.

Poornima Soundararajan (poornima.s@in.ibm.com), Staff Software Engineer, IBM

Poornima Soundararajan is working as a Staff Software Engineer for the IBM Systems Director VMControl advanced manager. Poornima has more than 7 years of experience in Java/J2EE technologies.

Aparna Khare (apakhare@in.ibm.com), System Software Engineer, IBM

Aparna Khare is working as a System Software Engineer for the IBM Systems Director VMControl advanced manager. Aparna has 4 years of experience in Java/J2EE technologies.

Summary: IBM® Systems Director is a platform management solution that is used to manage physical and virtual systems in a multisystem environment. It supports various virtualization technologies and multiple operating systems across IBM and non-IBM platforms. IBM Systems Director VMControl™ is an advanced manager of IBM Systems Director, a free-to-own set of platform management tools. This tutorial is part of a series on VMControl resource lifecycle management. This tutorial explains the virtual appliance lifecycle using the VMControl Representational State Transfer (REST) application programming interfaces (APIs).

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Date: 25 Jan 2013
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (491 KB | 29 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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About the authors

Poornima Soundararajan is working as a Staff Software Engineer for the IBM Systems Director VMControl advanced manager. Poornima has more than 7 years of experience in Java/J2EE technologies.

Aparna Khare is working as a System Software Engineer for the IBM Systems Director VMControl advanced manager. Aparna has 4 years of experience in Java/J2EE technologies.

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