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Monthly Archives: November 2012

I love the new vCO interface improvements

Posted on November 26, 2012 by magnus — No Comments ↓
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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 Continue reading →

Posted in Lessons learned | Tagged Orchestration, user interface, vOrchestrator | Leave a reply

vMotion Check grid report

Posted on November 23, 2012 by magnus — No Comments ↓
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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 Continue reading →

Posted in Workflow | Tagged compatibility, Orchestration, report, vmotion | Leave a reply

vMotion Check

Posted on November 21, 2012 by magnus — No Comments ↓

It’s been almost a year since I read a post on vTesseract where Josh Atwell posted a PowerShell script that he had written that tests vMotion compatibility for virtual machines. How cool is that? Now you can proactively check your clusters the day Continue reading →

Posted in Workflow | Tagged audit, check, Orchestration, virtual machine, vmotion | Leave a reply

SCSI ID 7 for virtual disks

Posted on November 16, 2012 by magnus — No Comments ↓

I’ll get back to posting workflows soon I hope, but for now, here is another thing I learned yesterday. I have a workflow that deploys virtual machines and it allows the user to pass in a list of harddisks they Continue reading →

Posted in Lessons learned | Tagged id, Orchestration, scsi | Leave a reply

Use the correct restart behaviour

Posted on November 13, 2012 by magnus — No Comments ↓

Another quick lessons learned in regards to the restart behaviour of your workflows. So most of my workflows take some input and do their work and nobody really cares about the return values of that particular execution. However, I have Continue reading →

Posted in Lessons learned | Tagged Orchestration, restart behaviour, vco, workflow | Leave a reply

vOrchestrator gotcha when working with arrays

Posted on November 9, 2012 by magnus — No Comments ↓

Ok, so I just wasted 30 minutes debugging the logic of my script, I have run in to this before but had forgotten about it. Beware of arrays as object properties… So at first glance you’d think that this code Continue reading →

Posted in Lessons learned | Tagged array, Orchestration, property, vco | Leave a reply

Clean up idle sessions

Posted on November 6, 2012 by magnus — 2 Comments ↓

Here we go again, another quick workflow that came out of the desire to clean up idle session on my vCenter servers. The premise is pretty simple, loop over a list of vCenter servers and find any connections that have Continue reading →

Posted in Workflow | Tagged idle, kill, Orchestration, session, terminate, vcenter | 2 Replies

Migrating to EC2

Posted on November 2, 2012 by magnus — No Comments ↓

Background When I first started this blog I didn’t know what to expect, would people care to read it or not. Turns out that at least some people out there found what I wrote interesting so I decided to move Continue reading →

Posted in Hosting | Tagged amazon, blog, EC2, hosting, nginx, varnish | Leave a reply

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