Use recommendDatastores with IP cofiguration
Hello everybody, I tried to create a workflow to clone a VM on a storage DRS cluster.As CloneVM is not possible anymore on Storage DRS, I use the recommendDatastores function.It almost works, as the...
View ArticleHow to pass a selected webclient object name as variable
Looking for some assistance with how to automatically pass a selected object as input variable in webclient to workflow (i.e select a virtual machine and pass this name as input to workflow)
View ArticleDefault input param values for a workflow if run via the REST interface
Can anyone offer me some insight here, i have a workflow setup which takes a series of input params, most of the time the default values (set via the presentation tab) are correct so i am hoping not to...
View ArticlevCPU Count in a Decision
Hello Guys, I have a workflow with one input parameter called 'numOfCpu'. There is one step in this workflow that get an existent VM and need to check if its number of CPUs are equals to input...
View ArticlePowerShell Plugin Help
I have been tasked to take a PowerShell script that performs the complete DECOM process for a client I am working with. I have created a workflow that will go out and get a list of the approved...
View ArticleClone, Linux with Single nic does not set DNS in resolv.conf file
I've been using vCO/vRO for about two years and know it pretty well with windows systems. I tried my first linux build and while it finished it did not set any DNS settings in the resolv.conf file. If...
View ArticleWriting a local file to Windows Standalone VCO server -
Hello, I am attempting to write a file locally to the windows server hosting my 5.5 VCO application via the FileWriter() method but have been running into various issues around write permissions. I...
View ArticleApply filter to getAllVmFolders()
Hi, for the getAllVmFolders() method of VcPlugin and SDKConnection there are the two Parameters available:additionalPropertyFilters (array of String)query(String) Can anybody give an example, how to...
View ArticleHow to parse the JSON file in VCO workflow
Hi,I am trying to write the workflow to parse the JSON files and retrieve the all keys and their values from JSON file but I could not find the appropriate APIs for the same. How we can write the...
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Execute powershell script - Host not available
Hello Guys, I am trying to create an workflow using the 'Invoke an external script' and it ask me for a HOST. There is a list with some hosts available, but my local host is not included. How can I...
View Articlesysprep timeout on Rhel7 build
Hello, I am cloning from a Red Hat 7 Template and I am using the workflow Clone, Linux with single Nic. This works for a Red Hat 6 Template and a CentOS Template I have but for some reason the sysprep...
View ArticleHow to convert String to vCO Object type?
Hi All, Can someone help me how to convert String to vCO Object Type? For example:I will pass VM name as string to workflow and then convert that into VC:VirtualMachine object in Scriptable...
View ArticleExecute powershell script inside VM
Hello, I have a workflow that creates a new VM and I would like to run a powershell script inside this VM. Is there anyway to accomplish that? Please any idea would help me a lot! Thanks
View Articlevco get virtual machines by name never finishes
Hello, I am experiencing an issue, when I run get virtual machines by name, nothing is returned and it never ends. I have another script that is attempting to do:VcPlugin.getAllClusterComputeResouces()...
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Active Directory 2.0 Plugin - searchExactMatch error
There appears to be a bug in the ActiveDirectory 2.0 plugin, or I'm doing something wrong. When I try to pass a specific host in the function ActiveDirectory.serachExactMatch, it doesn't seem to use...
View ArticleWrong encoding or formatting of Linux configuration files can cause problems...
hi All,In this blog post we will look into some use cases that can lead to malformed or wrongly encoded files, which when used on Linux/Unix/VMware Appliances, can break different functionality. In...
View ArticleMulti-site vRO configuration
I have multiple sites. Each site has dedicated vCenter and a dedicated SSO. Each site uses a vRO instance and uses its own SSO for authentication. I want to set up the multi-node plugin to manage...
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Multi-Site Plugin - Retrieving Information
Does anyone have an example workflow that connects to multiple vRO instances using the Multi-Site Plugin and pulls the information back and concatenates the information in the main workflow?
View ArticleCreating a new NFS datastore within VMware vCenter using NetApp VSC
Has anyone created a Workflow that ties in to the NetApp VSC within vCenter to create Datastores?
View ArticleHow to change the folder name in actions without affecting the actions?
We have several actions in vCO spread into different folders. When I change the folder name all actions referred in that folder started failing as the changed location is not dynamically changed...
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