com.vmware.coe.vcd51.notifications bugfix
hi all, I found a minor issue with the notifications package relating to accept timeouts etc. The "accept Interaction" activity has the following input parameters. security.group connected to...
View Articlecorrect use of query service resultSets
hi all, i have been using the queryService for some time and I have always had errors in the logs which i should be able to cleanup but I think their may be a bug in the vco source. lets assume I have...
View ArticleVco script for setting virtual flash read cache not working
The following script locates vim hosts, virtual machines and tries to configure flash read cache for the virtual disks.I can see completed "reconfigure virtual machine" tasks in the vsphere server but...
View ArticleHow to import plug-in in VCO through REST API
I try to import VCO plug-in in VCO through REST client, it always through below listed error Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.web.client.HttpServerErrorException: 500 Internal Server...
View ArticleSet restart priority for a VM
Hi,I try to set the restart priority for a VM in a cluster. I worked along the THIS DISCUSSION to create this script: var myVcClusterDasConfigInfo = new VcClusterDasConfigInfo() ; var...
View Articlechange drs settings for a specific vm
I’m having an intermittent problem when deploying vms from orchestrator and it appears it may be related to vmotion happening at a bad time in the process. From a few posts on the forums and with the...
View ArticleOrchestrator appliance monitoring
Does anybody know if there is a VMware semi-supported way of monitoring CPU / memory on the VCO appliance? Possibly by installing snmp?
View ArticleESXi host(VCHostSystem) as input parameter but returning a string containing...
Hi All, I've been creating a few workflows that I'd hoped to integrate into the web client. Basically, they just call the PowerShell plug-in and execute a script. Some of the scripts call for an...
View Articlelist of VM's in a resource pool
Hi All, I am trying to display the list of VM's in a resource pool. Input variables:- localparameter:- rpool Type:- VC:ResourcePool Script:- if (rpool.name == "ABC"){var vms =...
View ArticleInstalling Orchestrator in Windows
I need to install an Orchestrator Server on a Windows Server that is not running vCenter Server without using the vCO appliance. However, in the downloads section I only see that you can download the...
View ArticleWorkflow for moving newly provisioned VM to different AD container
I'm trying to figure out the best way to do this. In vCAC, with a template and customization spec, I can request a VM that will be added to the domain, so that part works. However, that drops the VM...
View ArticleConverting from PowerCLI to JavaScript
I'm attempting to convert a PowerCLI report to JavaScript. I'm looking to convert a lot of PowerCLI-specific things to JavaScript so I can do the same things in Orchestrator without having to call...
View ArticleUsing vCO as kickstart/PXE front end?
Has anyone tried using vCO to be a front end for your ESXi PXE provisioning environment. I am looking at using the weboperator view to gather information from the Admin and then create the ks.cfg, DNS...
View ArticleJavaScript for Orchestrator Resources
Does anyone know of some good training resources for JavaScript with Orchestrator? If you want to get into bare javascript coding to do what you would normally do with PowerCLI in terms of loops,...
View ArticleUpgraded to 5.5 and no client downloads are listed on the splash page.
I just upgraded a windows based 5.1 server to 5.5 and there are no clients listed for download on the splash page just a link to the java web client. I am going to down load the appliance just so I...
View ArticleHow to Define Time Validator before execution of workflow for Maintaince window
Hello , I wanted to define the Date & time validator in workflow which will check time of server before executing next steps in Workflow and if that time is in between maintaince window time ,...
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vCenter Orchestrator 5.5 has no vCenter workflow in library.
Hi, We just configure vCenter Orchestrator in our vCenter Server to get familiar with it. In the vcenter Orchestrator client and the vSphere Web Client we do not have the vCenter workflow in the...
View ArticleCreating a SQL database for Orchestrator
I'd like to create a SQL database (Not SQL Express) for Orchestrator for a test enviornment.Is there a simple step-by-step to do this geared for non-sql admins? There is a script to create the vcdb...
View Articlecreating and assigning tags in vCenter through vCO
VMware is moving away from custom attributes and toward the categories and tags. currently vCO has vCenter workflows for creating custom attributes, however, I have not found anything on automating...
View ArticleCan't connect to vCenter Server using PowerCLI Plugin
I'm getting this message in the logs when attempting to invoke a powerCLI script from orchestrator: [2014-01-15 09:37:47.354] [I] PowerShellInvocationError: Errors found while executing script...
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