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This guest post is by Steven Kang who blogs at ssbkang.com, where you can find his back catalogue of posts. Find out more about the guest blogger program here.

INTRODUCTION

I’ve worked on rebuilding a vCenter server due to one of the services failing to start and in this blog post, I will try and assist people who is planning to rebuild the existing vCenter server.

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Here in the ANZ region we are known for trying anything new. Starting this week the APAC vBrownBag podcast is going to host the Storage Debate. Each episode I will propose a controversial idea about storage in enterprise IT and two teams of storage experts will tell us why the idea is right or wrong.
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This the first guest blog post, find out more about the guest blogger program here.

This post is by Steven Kang who blogs at ssbkang.com, where you can find his back catalogue of posts.

Introduction

VMware vCenter Orchestrator (hereafter vCO) was deployed a few weeks back and it’s been decided to deploy PowerShell plug-in for advanced automation workflows. Due to the lack of documentation, it wasn’t straightforward installing & configuring PowerShell host. In this post, I would like to share my experience with you.

For those of you who’s not familiar with vCO, the following documentations would be helpful. Also, attaching PowerShell plug-in documentation.

• Orchestrator Document
• Orchestrator PowerShell Release Notes 1.04
• Orchestrator PowerShell Plugin Document

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One of the constants in life is change,so we will be changing up a little on this site. We are starting a guest blogging program, having up and coming bloggers post a few articles here. This will help them get exposure and help you to find new perspectives and writers. Each week we will have
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It is my turn to make some VMUG pilgrimages. In September I am going to be at the Chicago VMUG summit making vBrownBag video awesome. Since it is such a long way to go I thought I’d make the most of it and also visit the SoCal VMUG Summit on my way home. Later I plan to be at the Boston VMUG Summit in October, on my way to VMworld EMEA.

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Now that VMworld USA is over for another year we have a heap of video to look over. The TechTalk videos are all linked from teh session titles below and in this playlist on YouTube. We also had a great time with the Opening Acts panel discussions, those videos are in this playlist on YouTube.

If you missed out at VMworld USA you still have a chance to present a TechTalk at VMworld EMEA in Barcelona next month. Sign up using this form.

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I’m delighted to announce SimpliVity as our sixth and final sponsor for VMworld USA 2014. SimpliVity are a hyperconverged VM infrastructure company. Their OmniCube platform uses a hardware engine for storage deduplication and compression, which also enables replication for disaster recovery. The TechTalk schedule is pretty full, but if you’d like to present, propose yours
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VMTurbo is a long time sponsor of this site, it’s great to have them also sponsoring the TechTalks at VMworld USA. VMTurbo were also a presenter at Tech Field Day, we learnt about the free market commodity trading algorithms that are used to manage resource delivery. Imagine VMs have a budget to buy things like
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I really like when sponsors want to work with vBrownBag for multiple events and over multiple years. It says that they see the value of getting close to the community of people who use their products to solve business problems. Cisco has sponsored every TechTalk event that vBrownBag has ever done, and we’re delighted to
-> Continue reading TechTalk sponsor number four, Cisco

We now have three confirmed sponsors for the #vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld USA 2014. I know Brocade from many years ago as a Fibre Channel switch vendor. For a few years they have been moving into Ethernet switching and of course into software defined networking. I particularly like the Vyatta router, which runs beautifully in
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Regular contributor and vBrownBag crew member, Eric Wright (@discoposse), wrote an interesting article on his blog discoposse.com discussing the number of labs he uses on a regular basis.  It has long been understood that having a lab for learning, testing new technologies, and testing automation has become a near requirement for operating a good IT environment.
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I’ve been working with Infinio since the day they went public, at Tech Field Day 9, and really like the people there. Infinio are the our second sponsor for the TechTalks at VMworld USA in 2014. As another helper for the community Infinio are giving away a full conference pass, follow this link to enter
-> Continue reading Infinio is on board for #vBrownBag TechTalks and a free pass

I’m delighted to announce the first sponsor of this year’s TechTalks at VMworld USA, Coho Data. Coho have a very interesting product that combines very smart software and SDN with commodity hardware to form a high performance scale out storage array. I had the pleasure to be present at Virtualization Field Day 3 in March
-> Continue reading #vBrownBag TechTalks at VMworld USA 2014 – with Coho Data

Some Markdown Things I’ve recently started to think about doing another book (or three if I’m to be believed). As part of that, I thought long and hard about my current workflow. What worked, what did not, and started to make some changes. One of those changes was to start writing “the things” in Markdown.
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It seems to be that time of year again. The VMworld session voting is over and the accept / reject emails are flying. If your proposed session has not been accepted then the vBrownBag crew can help you to get the message from your presentation out. For the third year we will be running TechTalks 
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