VMware vCO Add Host to Cluster Workflow
Hi All, I have been working on a number of workflows that can be called from command line using curl and the REST API to configure vCenter. I have used the out of the box workflows as a reference and...
View ArticleSSH plugin, session variable not serializable, and multi-action SSH sessions
Got a tricky one here: How can I run multiple SSH commands inside a workflow by passing the session variable to each action? While it would seem obvious to do an initial SSH connect in the first step...
View ArticlefindAllForType and xpath; which attributes can be searched?
Is there any way to determine which attributes in, say, a VM, are actually searchable? Let's say I want to find a VM using the hostname of the guest OS (eg hostname). The following does NOT work:...
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Orchestrator Server Service cannot start
Hi,the last days I spend a lot of time to develop several vco workflows.When I was done I was pleased to reboot the whole server, vCenter is also installed there. After the reboot, the vco server...
View ArticleWhat is Orchestrator API to 1) selectively install a package and 2) set...
Hi, I'm building a vCO plugin for a solution and I'm not able to find Orchestrator Plugin APIs to do the following or want o find out if it's even possible... 1) The plugin has 2 .packages bundled in...
View ArticleHow to upgrade vco 5.1 to 5.1.2
Hi All, I want to upgrade VCO from 5.1.0 build 2725 to 5.1.2, vco is installed in the same machine as vcenter. The reason is, i'm not getting inventory info from Host object with below code...
View ArticleFrozen "Waiting event"
Hello, sorry for my english =) I have two separate Infrastructure with vCloud Director 5.5. In each infrastructure i have vCO server (appliance) + vCD plugin. When i installed vCD plugin, was installed...
View ArticleUse vCO to query capacity data and insert into a SQL DB
Hi there I need to see if it will be practical to use vCO and query some vmware cluster capacity details and then write the results to an external MS SQL DB.I've added the db already but find very...
View ArticlevCO gets outdated statistics from vCenter
Hi,I'm trying to get host utilization statistics using the workflow posted here:Get Host Effective CapacityThe problem is the returned information doesn't change on subsequent runs, even though showing...
View ArticleGet all vms in vCD organization
Hello! I am an Orchestrator newbie and I am trying to create a workflow that will get all VMs inside a specific organization and then suspend all of those VMs via the vcloud director / vapp / vm /...
View ArticleSQL Plugin Insert records to a SQL database table
I can query my table, but I cannot insert. Does anyone have a sample piece of code that inserts a record into a database table? Thank you
View ArticleOnly once a day allow the disc to expand
Hello Community How can i restrict that user only one time a day can extend a disk?I want to avoid that user run's the workflow many times and my Volume run out of Space. Thanks Josef
View Article"Failed to create sessionFactory" error while using vCO 5.1 Web Client
I have installed and configured vCO 5.1 very well as in the link (http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-20368, thanks to cdecanini) At the end when I tried to login, I got the error, Failed to...
View ArticleWorkflwo Output/Result Presentation
Hello, Quite a newcomer to the vco world.Here is my newbie question: is it possible with vco to create some sort of interactive workflows, or to put it differently to Present the workflow's result or...
View ArticleRetreive item list with the vCAC 6.0.1 plugin via the CAFE server? Can't seem...
What I would like to do is query against the list of items I see in the items folder. If you go into the inventory and select vCloud Automation Center, select your CAFE server, and look in the "Items"...
View ArticleError adding IaaS host with vCAC 6.0.1 plugin for vCO
I installed the new vCAC 6.0.1 plugin on vCO 5.5 (that comes bundled with vcac). I am able to add the vcac host just fine, but when I try to add the iaas host, I get the attached error -...
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Edit the Workflow create/Update blueprint properties from vCO worflow input
Hello,I have already post the question, but I didn't get the answer, May be I didn't post it in the good place. I have created a blueprint with those properties : VirtualMachine.Storage.Name and...
View ArticleVCO&VCD integration issue: Caches cannot be added by name when default cache...
Hi experts,I am doing some test to integrate VCO 5.5.1 with VCD 5.5. VCO plugin version: vCloud Director 5.5.0.1546869when add a VCD to VCO in " VCO client-> vCD->plugin config->Add...
View ArticleRemove old snapshots but filter by name
Hi. I'd like to use the built in workflow 'Remove Old Snapshots' except I'd like it to filter out snapshots that have a specific phrase in the snapshot name E.G do-not-deleteI thought it would be just...
View ArticlevCenter Compatibility
Hi, we are running vCenter 5.0 and want to utilise Orchestrator. I initally installed Orchestrator 5.5 on our vCenter Server and everything looked great but I wasn't getting any results when running...
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