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vCenter Orchestrator: Operation Automate – Part Two
So another day, another piece of the workflow! Today we will be generating input parameters, and workflow attributes. There are a few ways to do this but I will step through each piece so we can...
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vCenter Orchestrator: Operation Automate – Part Three
Now that wait wasn’t so bad, was it? Anywho, today we will look at turning this Visio diagram looking thing into a working automation workflow. In the previous posts we: Created the workflow design...
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vCenter Orchestrator: Operation Automate – Part Four
While learning how to use vCO for automating tasks within my virtual environments I came across the need to auto-generate or auto-populate certain portions of a workflow based on response from a user....
View ArticlevCenter Orchestrator: Operation Automate – Part Five
Now that we have a completely working automation workflow with some cool little auto-generated stuff in it, we can move to the presentation of the workflow. Think of this as the GUI for the workflow....
View ArticlevCO vApp Upgrade Issue
So I decided to remediate my vCO vApp to the latest version, 4.2.1. Everything went smooth after attaching the baseline that I created to upgrade it through VUM. Upgrade looked successful, went to...
View ArticlevCO Webviews/Perspectives Default Values Issue
So today I was running some workflows that will be needed in the next week or so and found that they suddenly did not work in Webviews or Perspectives. The only change recently was my upgrade of my...
View ArticleRenaming a datastore through vCO
I was in need of automatically renaming a generic datastore name in one of my host deployment workflows and found that the renameDatastore() method was deprecated (Thanks Jörg!) and that we are to use...
View ArticlevCO 101 – Test DPM
In response to Cody Bunch‘s recent post on Testing DPM with PowerCLI, I decided to translate this into a vCO workflow. I did this because I thought it would be fun. The workflow is relatively simple...
View ArticleVMworld 2012 Session Voting
So this year I have a couple of topics that I and a couple of others (Cody Bunch, Joerg Lew) have turned into for the Call for Papers. User voting for the topics has opened (here) and we would...
View ArticleVMworld 2012 Session (OPS-CIM1274)
Looks like I will be speaking at VMworld on a panel session with Thomas Corfmat, Igor Stoyanov, Sean Harrison, and Vivienne Cleveland: OPS-CIM1274 – Building Cloud Services using VMware vCenter...
View ArticlevCenter Certificate Automation Tool 1.0
So for those of us who have experienced the wonderful times of dealing with replacing or updating certificates within our VMware infrastructures, VMware came to the rescue (kind of) and provided a tool...
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VMworld 2013 Session Voting Open
Ladies and gentlemen, the VMworld 2013 Session Voting has begun! I have submitted a couple of sessions both by myself and with some fellow colleagues. You will need a VMworld ID in order to vote....
View ArticleVMworld 2013 US/EMEA – VCM4875: Getting Started with vCenter Orchestrator
I am very excited to announce that I had a session accepted for presentation at both VMworld US and EMEA this year! I will be presenting with my good friend Thomas Corfmat (@tcorfmat), Senior Product...
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Installing vCenter Orchestrator on Windows Server 2012 Part 1
The release of vSphere 5.1 update 1(a) allows for the installation of vCenter and its components on Windows Server 2012. Having deployed vCenter without any issues, I thought about why not install vCO...
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Installing vCenter Orchestrator on Windows Server 2012 Part 2
Configuration To start the vCO configuration make sure port 8283 is accessible. Make sure vCO configuration service is running. Go to http://vCO_servername or IP address:8283, this will take you to the...
View ArticlevCO Usage Survey Call For Help!
As many of you know, what drives innovation is the voice of the community and people using the products provided to us by companies like VMware. There are too many times when I here people state that...
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VMworld 2014 Session Public Voting
So it has been a minute since my last post and I hate that this is my newest one…OK…so maybe I don’t hate it! Anyway, the session voting is open for the public for VMworld 2014. So in an effort to...
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