How to use the Credential object?
I had a requirement to create a password confirmation form in vCO. I detailed what I came up with here: http://www.jonathanmedd.net/2015/01/presenting-a-password-confirmation-form-in-vco-vro.html It...
View ArticleRunning a workflow object with given credentials
I'm working on a Windows provisioning workflow in vCO. In the interest of security, users have a domain admin level user and their normal user account that has been granted VMware/vCenter privileges....
View ArticleHow to get Advance Service Designer - "Request Information" - Description &...
Hi All, I have created a ASD service based on a workflow. When the ASD catalog is requested, the first tab is "Request Information" which has Description and Reason field. How to access these values in...
View ArticlevCO Provision VMs with VMXNET3 adapter
Hi All, We are using VCO as our workflow engine for the automated provisioning of VMs. We have a requirement that the VMs are deployed using the VMXNET3 adapter. However, at the moment they are all...
View ArticleMissing Workflows?
All the sample workflows that use the "Email Send (Notification)" nested workflow in Orchestrator 5.1.2 are now reporting "Workflow not Found" for that workflow. Not sure how it got deleted, but I'd...
View ArticleHow to Install VMware Tools freshly on VM using vCO
HI All , VMware Tools upgrade workflow is working but could you please direct me a solution for installing VMware Tools on 1 machine , Once I understand that I can automate it with all the VM's in the...
View ArticleResource Pool Automation
I'm currently being tasked with trying to automate resource pool allocation in our clusters. Currently our operations team is struggling to size the resource pools automatically, or systems are...
View ArticleVM hot add memory/CPU capable
Hi, I want to check if a VM is capable for hot add of memory and CPU, before I enable it on the VM. The code I use is this: queryConfigOption = vm.environmentBrowser.queryConfigOption();...
View ArticleOrchestrator 6.0 release date
With vSphere 6.0 coming out Feb 2, does this mean Orchestrator 6.0 would be released at the same time, or might they be released separately?
View ArticleOrchestrator 6.0 and vSphere 5.x compatibility
When Orchestrator 6.0 comes out, will it work with vSphere 5.1 and 5.5 ? Are there possible gotchas / caveats to planning to use Orchestrator 6.0 until you can upgrade your vSphere environment to 6.0?
View ArticleBoot order issue after adding additional SCSI controller.
Hi all, I'm currently building an workflow for adding additional several disks and additional 3 SCSI controller to a given virtual machine. After that the system isn't booting anymore, because the boot...
View ArticleOrchestrator and Plug-In development
I need orchestrator to talk to a number of third party systems for which no plug-in has been developed yet. This is all part of a single Vm provisioning process. Should I create a separate plug-in...
View ArticleOrchestrator and integration
I need to make orchestrator talk to a number of third party products such as a CMDB, IPAM, DCHP and backup product during the provisioning process. What is the best programming language to use?...
View Articlesetting a variable to value of workflow.getInputParameters().keys not working...
The following code is blowing up for me since upgrading to 5.5.2 . It seems like setting a variable or iterating through the values from workflow.getInputParameters().keys is not working. Create a...
View ArticleRunning a workflow fail due to SSO issue
I'm experiencing issues executing a workflow in Orchestrator due to Single Sign On issues. When I try to run the workflow from Orchestrator client I get "SSO server error". When I try to run it via the...
View ArticleSSLError: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:581
I am trying to invoke workflows using python but getting below SSL Certificate verify failed Code Sample:- from vmw.vco.client import Client c =...
View ArticleHow do you get the datastore path or URL for a Virtual Disk in vRealize...
I need to eager zero a Virtual Disk while building a VM. I found the function eagerZeroVirtualDisk_Task() under VcVirtualDiskManager, which takes in 2 params: name - (string) The name of the disk,...
View ArticleRestricting VM Selecting While Running a Workflow?
When a user logs into the vSphere Web Client, they only see the VMs they have permissions on - this avoids a lot of confusion.When the same user runs a workflow from the vCO Web Operator or Client,...
View ArticleError adding SOAP host
Hi I get an error if I add a SOAP host to the vmware orchestrator. The logs shows me the error:2015-01-12 21:58:14.452+0100 [WorkflowExecutorPool-Thread-10] WARN {xxx@domain:Add a SOAP...
View ArticleData Binding Properties
I am working on a workflow that is basically converting my vCAC blueprint so I can change up the request form a bit. All my data driven relationships properties are working properly if the action...
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