As much as I’ve harped on installing and running stuff with vCO, the one thing I haven’t touched on much to date has been where to get the bloody download bits. Unfortunately as I’m writing this there is not a product specific download page for vCO. Rather you will need to download the entire vCenter
-> Continue reading vCenter Orchestrator – Downloading It
We’ll skip the reason you need tools installed. We’ll also skip a bit on the other ways to do this in PowerCLI. Rather, we’ll bring you a way to do this in Orchestrator. Note: If you’re not using vCO, you should be. Why? I covered that here. Additionally, there are some excellent vCO resources here.
-> Continue reading Automation 101 – VMware Tools with Orchestrator
As mentioned here, I have been playing around with the “nuke from orbit” bits in vCO for both Virtual Machines & their AD objects. One of the snags I hit was the fact that one of these things was not like the other. That is, the VC:VirtualMachine bits that the vCenter plug-in uses could not
-> Continue reading Automation 101 – Orchestrator & AD, Revisited
This week has me finishing up Chapter 10 or so of the upcoming vCO Book (Amazon pre-order link here). Chapter 10 is the “How to cleanse a VM with fire” or so, and one of the varied bits of clean-up you have to do after deleting a VM is to pop that sucker out of
-> Continue reading vCenter Orchestrator – Active Directory Like A Boss
vCenter Orchestrator… It’s power is only exceeded by it’s mystery. Or so we thought… We’ve touched on vCO a number of times in the past. So much so that I’m actually writing a book on it (Yes that was a shameless plug…). What follows now was a special request from Maish Saidel-Keesing brought about by
-> Continue reading Automation 101: vCenter Orchestrator – Set Custom Attributes
If you are going to be using Orchestrator… and you should be, you are going to want to pull down and install the VIX plugin from here. Why? I hope you are strapped into your seat, and that seat is bolted to the floor because the awesome fixing to drop will hit with a force
-> Continue reading vCenter Orchestrator – VIX Plugin Installation
No story this time around, just some HBA rescanning love: PowerCLI Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostStorage -RescanAllHba vCenter Orchestrator In the vCO Client, open “Workflows” & Drill down to “Library > vCenter > Datacenter”: Right click, “Start workflow…”: Finally: “Submit” Summary Questions? Comments? Follow me on Twitter here or drop a line in the comments.
So this thing here happened. More importantly, the work I’ve been doing is now public: “Automating Day-to-Day Administration of VMware vSphere 5.x w/ vCenter Orchestrator” This hands-on technical guide to automating vSphere with Orchestrator teaches administrators how to save time and resources by automating their virtual infrastructure. Automation expert Cody Bunch teaches valuable practices and
-> Continue reading vCenter Orchestrator on VMware Press!
Hey… if Luc can do it, so can I, right? Turns out that yes, I can, and it’s quite easy with vCenter Orchestrator also. If you haven’t already, check out these other posts on vCO: Mass Migrations Check for Snapshots Get Started with vCO vCO BrownBag Now, our task at hand, clean up some orphaned
-> Continue reading Spring Cleaning – Orphaned VM Files with vCO
When you are configuring vCO, one of the requisite steps is to configure LDAP. While vCO has some pretty nifty search buttons, you can still get this info and more using DSquery. Here’s a few examples: Find a Specific Group PS C:\> DSquery OU -name "ProVMware Users" "OU=ProVMware Users,DC=provmware,DC=local" Find a Specific OU PS C:\>
-> Continue reading Using DSquery to Find LDAP Paths – vCO
Why? Because I said so. Perhaps that is a bit too direct. However, if you are like me, you often find yourself with more to do than time to do it in. Or, like my other side, you’re professionally lazy. If you’re the latter, don’t worry, I wont tell anyone. If you are either, vCO
-> Continue reading vSphere Automation 101 – Use vCenter Orchestrator
First and foremost thanks to our three (yes THREE) guest presenters: Paul Richards – Virtualization lead on the Product Engineering team at SunGard Availability Services. His background is in virtualization, storage, and now this cloud stuff. Brian Knudtson – just a simple Systems Engineer trying to make his way through this virtual world he’s found
-> Continue reading VCAP-DCA BrownBag – Section 8 Orchestrator Follow-Up