vCAC and vCO for VM cloud deployment
Hello, I have done some vCloud director automation using vCenter Orchestrator, so I can provision VMs in an organization and then run post installation tasks. Then I started looking at vCenter...
View ArticleSnapshot of all VMs through Orchestrator
Hi, I have downloaded the vCenter Orchestrator appliance and startup the orchestrator client. My main reason is to create snapshot of all VMs. I see there are 2 pre-defined workflows in the...
View ArticleIdentify ESXi Installation on Local Disk
Hi Teams We are using ESXi 5.0 and have 2 Local Disk datastore detected. I want to know where the OS of ESXi installed and how to get it? RgdsPet
View ArticleInstalling vCO plugin for vCac
I am not getting to configure the plugin, anyone can guide ? Essentially it asked for vCac host name and I choose basic authentication with session details and it always throws error validating the...
View ArticleLCM replacement besides Dynamic Ops
Just looking to see if anyone out there has looked into or used other provisioning/workflow suites besides Dynamic Ops. We currently have a rather mature workflow process that was designed on LCM, but...
View ArticleEndpoint creation with vCO appliance is giving error
Hello, I am getting below error while creating Endpoint with vCO 5.1 Appliance. vCenter Orchestrator returned an error. Message description 'The HTTP token has invalid syntax' Br,MG
View ArticlevShield VXLAN with Cisco Nexus 1000v Issues
Here is my setup1 virtual center 5.14 hosts 5.1 Cisco Nexus 1000v.4.2.1.SV2.1.1a2 uplink trunks12 veth port profiles vShield 5.1.2vCloud Director 5.1.2 I followed the vShield / Nexus integration...
View ArticleI was so happy when the script was running, but I made a mistake
I wrote a nice short script to move any VMs that had a thick disk format to a datastore and make it thin. Here is what I have: #Simple line, just getting the VMs with a thick HD and saving it to a...
View ArticleCreating a disaster recovery plan
Recently got asked to assist with disaster recovery planning for our big upgrade Current setup isVCenter 5.1ESX 4.1.0 build # 9881782 Clusters1 Production Pool14 Hosts60 VMs Goal is to have a complete...
View ArticleLogin page theme issue
Hi,Im having problem with using a custom css for the login page in vCloud Director. The css does not apply after upload -> apply ->restart browser.I have followed these instructions (Import a...
View ArticleProduct Metering: VMware vCloud Director
Usage Meter 3.1 supports product metering of vCloud Director.What it gives to us as for SP?
View ArticleImport-VApp Host did not have any virtual network defined
I have used the OVF tool to export a couple VM's from my 5.1 environment. When trying to import these VM's back into the environment using PowerCLi I get the error that is in the subject line. My hosts...
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Automatic Shutdown of virutal host
Hi all, after we had successfully converted a Win2003 server onto a ESXi 5.1.0 Server, the host automatically restarts after the OS was loaded.You can see the Windows Logon Screen for about 20...
View ArticleAdd a OVF to Catalog or Add VM to vApp fails
Hi We have vCloud Director 5.1.1 868405 and Labmanager 4.0.1 1233. I'm in the process of moving LabManager library configurations to vCloud.I have created OVF -files of the 3 VMs in the labmanager...
View Articlevco rest api and ajax...
Hi,I have built a wamp server on my laptop (ip1). I also have a vco server (ip2) and another server with rest api (ip3).The IPs ip1,ip2 and ip3 are all in different range/domain. The issue is that with...
View ArticleSSO Auth for Java REST calls
Hi there, I was hoping someone could post an example of successful SSO authentication via the Java REST SDK. I have been trying for a few days but seem to hit a wall here. I working in the 5.1 VCO...
View ArticleOn VIEW Connection Server, Transfer Server Status Pending, The service is not...
Based on some really bad advice, I created a second view connection server in our VDI environment. When it got to the point that I had to add servers, when I added the view transfer server that was for...
View ArticleCreating Reports in Custom-UI
Where am I supposed to go to learn about creating reports in the Custom UI? I saw a couple of references in this forum to creating XML files, but I can't find anything in the guides.
View ArticleHow can I passthrough PCI devices that are not listed?
Hi all,I want to passthrough my on-board sound card to a VM, but the sound card does not show up in the list of PCI devices.Is it possible to add devices to the list?I also would like to passthrough on...
View ArticleMirage and VSS
Hello everyone, Continuing my final tests of Mirage, I could see warning logs that tell me the following: "VSS internal error code: 0x80042308: The specified object was not found. Suggested resolution:...
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