Create a VM with special parameter
Hello, I need some help. I would like to create a VM with the following settings. With the standard task I cannot create such VM. - SAS controller instead of LSI Logic- 1 CPU socket and 2 or 4 cores...
View Article"The guest operations agent could not be contacted" when trying to acces to...
I have to install some softwares after the provisionning of my VMs. Just after provisionning once the vm is on, i run the workflow "copy file from vco to guest" to copy my scripts file which works...
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vCenter Orchestrator - The Preferred Approach for Adapting and Extending...
vCenter Orchestrator - The Preferred Approach for Adapting and Extending vCloud Automation Center Automating the delivery of IT services is not a standalone application. For your private or hybrid...
View Articleunable to integrate vcenter orchestrator with web client
I am unable to see the Orchestrator Server on web client vCenter Server IP : 192.168.95.233Orchestrator: Installed along with the vCenterPlease find the attached image
View ArticlePcipassthru
Hi! Could anyone be kind enough to provide me an example how to add a pci passthru device to a virtual machine?
View Articleservice account in vCO
Hi, i'm new to vmware world so some of the things i say may be a little off, if you need additional explanation please ask. i have to whole vcloud environment set up, what i having issues with is that...
View ArticlevCO 5.5 default plugins not showing up
just installed 5.5 for the first time and the default vcentre library and webviews are missing. in actual fact after clean install the only workflows present are the documentation ones I have tried...
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launch powershell command
hi, i have add to my vCO a powershell host, now i need to launch a command into this host machine (in my case the AD host) i need to make move a computer from original folder...
View ArticlevCO multi-node plugin alteratives
We're using vCAC in our environment to manage provisioning of virtual machines, but we have a number of guest hardware customizations that are performed based on blueprint to cover things vCAC can't do...
View ArticlevCO SSO configuration via Workflow dosnt stick
Hi all,I found that when one uses the Workflow "Configure SSO" you can configure it and it also shows up in the Configuration tool. However as soon as one restart the vCO Server service (I'm using the...
View ArticleINTERNAL ERROR 500
Hi all, I have been using a pretty bog standard "instantiate a vapp template" workflow now for sometime. Occassionally I get an internal error 500 issue which seems to be a generic failure. More...
View ArticleValidate VMName / Hostname in input field before executing workflow
I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to validate input fields before executing a workflow. The scenario I have is provisioning a new virtual machine. The user must input both the VMname and the...
View ArticleBlog post "Using CredSSP with the vCO PowerShell Plugin"
In this post we take a look at common difficulties and challenges when using VMware vCloud Orchestrator Server (vCO) in combination with Microsoft Windows PowerShell to achieve remote script execution...
View ArticleUsing Credentials within PowerShell-Plugin script
Hi all, I'm just trying to get my first workflow to run, but already stuck.... I would like to call a powershell script that uses the NetApp cmdlet "Connect-NAServer" wich needs a PSCredential as...
View ArticleUsing Locking in vCenter Orchestrator Workflows
Hi All,I had an idea today to start sharing some questions/use cases from current implementations of vCO so that more people can benefit from that. I believe that most of the things that I will try to...
View ArticlevCO lock and Unlock on a particular workflow.
Hi, A question on Locking. I am trying to use Infoblox pluging for reserving an IP and this workflow has to be executed only 1 at a time. hence I was wondering if I could use locking procedure so that...
View ArticlevCO Installable vs Appliance
I'm sure this has been asked before, but why would I use the appliance over the Windows vCO installation?
View ArticleAnnotations customValue
Hi, I'm struggling to find out how to read and set the VirtualMachine customValue annotations.As part of the provisioning workflow process I wish to set a Custom annotation called "Customer" with a...
View ArticlePassing Active-Directory objects always results in "Not found" objects
Hi there, I have a use case where i need to pass objects generated by the AD-Plugin. What i mean by passing is "passing" it from element to element within an workflow. E.g. I have a action that gets...
View ArticleInvoking Workflows in one Orchestrator from another
Hi, I am trying to integrate 2 different vCO. We have a vCO 5.0 and vCO 5.5 installation in our set-up.I need to trigger the workflows in vCO 5.5 from vCO 5.0 . Is this doable? If yes, what is the best...
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