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Monthly Archives: September 2012

Add NFS datastore to cluster

Posted on September 14, 2012 by magnus — No Comments ↓

Here is an example of how to use the foreach workflow object. In this example I am automating the process of adding a NFS datastore to a cluster. Please note that there is no error checking, it will simply try Continue reading →

Posted in Workflow | Tagged cluster, datastore, nfs, Orchestration | Leave a reply

Maintenance mode each host in a cluster

Posted on September 14, 2012 by magnus — No Comments ↓

I needed to move all my VM swap files from one datastore to another and after i changed the swap location i needed to VMotion each vm once to make them relocate the swap file. I wrote a quick workflow Continue reading →

Posted in Workflow | Tagged cluster, maintenance mode, Orchestration | Leave a reply

Upgrade vNIC Hardware Workflow

Posted on September 14, 2012 by magnus — 3 Comments ↓

I needed a way to upgrade the virtual network adapters to VMXNet 3 without changing the MAC address. My first prototype was a PowerCLI script and after I had some success with that I converted it to a vOrchestrator workflow. Continue reading →

Posted in Workflow | Tagged hardware, Orchestration, upgrade, vnic | 3 Replies

vOrchestrator Appliance SSL certificates

Posted on September 14, 2012 by magnus — No Comments ↓

I’ll start out with a easy one… So I ran in to a snag changing the SSL certificates on the vOrchestrator appliance. Our internal CA does not support the encryption that the appliance uses to generate the certificate when you Continue reading →

Posted in How-to | Tagged appliance, certificates, Orchestration, ssl, vOrchestrator | Leave a reply

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