Updating custom fields

Custom properties

Custom properties

This is yet another powercli script turned workflow, the powercli version has been in use for the last couple of years. The idea is to present some information that is not available in vCenter using the custom fields. For example, since the tasks and events are aged out of the vCenter database after a while I capture the data while it is still available and save it to custom fields. Another example […]

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Template build process

This post will show a really cool way of using vCloud Director with SCCM and vOrchestrator to build VDI templates and distribute them to vCenter servers across my environment with zero human interaction. Unfortunately I won’t be posting the actual workflows due to the fact that they are pretty specific to my environment, but I will try to post as much code that I can so that you can get some ideas […]

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I love the new vCO interface improvements

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promote window

This is just a quick post to give the vCO development team some credit for what they did with the latest version of vCO. At VMworld 2012 I spent quite some time chatting with the vCO people and they explained that this release really focused on the user interface and how to make things easier. Well, they did a good job, I would not want to go back to the older client […]

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vMotion Check grid report

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report

Ok, so I thought it would take me a little longer to get this done or I wouldn’t have posted the vMotion check stuff the other day. Turns out that things are pretty slow today, most of the people at work took today off to make it a long weekend. So the goal here is to make a report that is a grid that shows every possible vMotion for a cluster so […]

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