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, Continue reading
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 Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Here is yet another quick little action for you. So I was doing some maintenance on my virtual hardware upgrade workflow and realized that I needed to check which hardware versions the cluster supported so that I’d know which version Continue reading