Disable SSH
Time for another simple workflow. This time I needed to disable SSH on every host in a group of vCenters. The basic idea is to loop through a list of vCenters, grab the hosts and then loop through each one Continue reading
Time for another simple workflow. This time I needed to disable SSH on every host in a group of vCenters. The basic idea is to loop through a list of vCenters, grab the hosts and then loop through each one Continue reading
Ok, so this time I wanted to spruce up the email notifications that I send out from my workflows without adding a ton of work to each one of them to build the HTML email. The template i chose for Continue reading
Ok, so this is another example of a powershell script turned workflow. Several years ago when we first started deploying VMware here I realized that nobody pays attention to the errors that are generated in vCenter unless they actually trigger Continue reading
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
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
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
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