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Show off your workflows
You have a complex workflow or one that has saved you a lot of time? The two workflows that I have created and that I am happiest with are my VNic upgrade and my Hardware Version upgrade workflows. The...
View ArticleVCo workflow to clone a centos vm. Network interface issue
Hi, I am using vco workflows to clone a vm from vcenter. The vm is running centos 6.0 . When the cloning is complete. I see the network interfaces eth0 and eth1 set correctly with the static ip address...
View ArticleHow to create a new configuration element using workflow.
While I'm able to create the attributes and values of an exiting or manually created configuration element, I'm wondering how I can create the configuration element itself in the first place using...
View ArticleVCO and VCD 5.5 Modify "Instantiate vAPP workflow" with custom virtual...
So I have been working on a custom workflow that creates new Instantiations of various vApp templates to dump into our vCloud Director 5.5 env. Overall this a basic clone of of the "Instantiate a vApp...
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 ArticleVM Storage Polcies
Can anyone give me some idea on how to set VM Storage Policies for newly created VC:VirtualMachine objects? It's inheriting the policy of the template which can either be perfect, or not right at all....
View ArticleOrchestrator with Nexus 1000v
Has anyone leveraged Orchestrator with Nexus 1000v. I was researching workflow integrations and it appears that nexus 1000v has REST capabilities now. I was wondering if it is possible to hook the APIs...
View ArticleUse Vco workflow in Vcac
Hello,I Have defined a Vco Workflow. I used the option " Hide parameter input " to hide some parameters based on the choices before.When I add a Blueprint from vcac using this workflow, The parameters...
View ArticleOrchestrator and infoblox clone VM from template and add dhcp reservation for...
Hi All, I am a bit stuck with how to create a workflow for our users to create a vm from template and push it to infoblox.the first part is simple but I cant find a way to "give the infoblox workflow...
View ArticleSSO and vCO issues
Hi, I'm trying to set up a new vCO appliance and am trying to use SSO Authentication. When I type in invalid credentials and try to register, I get error messages stating that the credentials are...
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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 ArticleLaunch a bash script with sudo command
Hello, I'm trying to launch a bash script with the guest script manager package. There is a sudo command inside the script and it's causing me trouble. First error is : sudo: sorry, you must have a tty...
View Articleclone vm from template and set ipv6 for Linux templates
Hi, is there a possibility to clone via workflow and set ipv6 adress directly.I cant find this in vCO. One wokrarround would be to deploy an template with ipv4 and then run an script via ssh and then...
View ArticleCloneVm to SDRS Cluster / Storage Pod
Hi there, we try to change our deployment scripts from old cloneVm to new recommendDatastores. We need this to provision VMs to SDRS Clusters. As documented within API reference, old CloneVm was now...
View ArticleList all snapshots wth orchestator with
Hi, i'm trying to make a script to list all the snapshots of a vcenter with javascript and orchestrator. It was easy with powershell but we changed from windows vcenter to vcsa 5.5 so i can't use it.I...
View Articlescheduled tasks fail for missing credentials
We run a few workflows that schedule other workflows to run in the future up to 30 days. Sometimes those workflows will fail to run and if you click to edit them they say"task startup user's...
View ArticleVMWARE VCAC 6.0 information store question : add vsphere.local to ID store?
do you want to associate a ID store with AD at the vshpere.local level ? do you add the tenant and then add an ID store to each tenant ?thanks
View ArticleVCAC 6.0 why and when use a external Orchestration server
When and why should I use an external orchistrator server, and not the one that is embedded in VCAC
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 -...
View ArticleDVS config backup
Hello Fellows,I am banging my head against a wall here with trying to figure out how to export DVS config using vSphere API from VCO. Calling dVSManagerExportEntity_Task method results in nothing, I...
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