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Where to start for newbies - Question/Rant/Mostly Whining

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Coming from a Operations background.  Windows/UI driven workflow.  I am trying to broaden my horizons and learn Python and use it for VMWare.  The only "code" I have written before are hobbled together Powershell or PowerCLI scripts.

Now with that out of the way, this is where I am at in my journey.  I have gone through Automate the Boring stuff and I am 90% of the way through Learn Python 3 the Hard Way.  None of the stuff I have been learning in those courses seem to relate to anything that I need (apart from understanding functions and classes) in a vmware environment.  At least not yet anyway.

So where I am struggling is making the leap from the example provided with the SDK (https://github.com/vmware/vsphere-automation-sdk-python)  which basically authenticates to vCenter and lists out what VMs you have, to the next step.    Understanding the docs is pretty difficult at this point. 

I want to start with something basic, like list the hosts in the cluster or get some cluster health stats.  Any ideas on where to look next?  So much of what I am reading and finding online comes from authors that are so familiar with what they are doing, they skip much of the basics because they presume everyone else has that knowledge.


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