I wrote this post some time ago but I felt that it didn’t include some other use cases where you would want to resolve a vCenter virtual machine. I also previously used code that was provided by the vRO appliance that I wasn’t too keen on (logging was a bit light and there was code to search using the BIOS
Author: Gavin Stephens
This post is going to detail how we can interact with the IaaS servers and work with the objects within the Entity Framework. I have also written a number of actions that provide a standard interface to use when working with the entities and perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on them. Note: these actions are designed to be used
When I work with endpoints in vRO, I like to use actions to discover these instead of hard coding them as attributes or within configuration elements. Hard coding of these endpoints requires manual configuration steps when moving code between environments, which is not ideal. I felt it would be a good idea to include this post early on within this
Oh what a joy of an upgrade this one was. Not that it was too difficult, just a tad annoying that an inline upgrade was not possible (or maybe just not supported?, I dunno) and the only way to upgrade to vRealize Orchestrator 7.5 was through a new deployment of the external appliance and migrating the content and settings across.
vRealize Automation 7.x is currently in a sort of ‘split brain’ where there exists two data models which can be used to interact with vRA objects. One is objects that are backed by the Cafe appliance / PostgreSQL database and the other which uses the older, entity framework (IaaS servers). This post is going to focus on the entity framework,
I have updated this page on 22nd Jan 2019 to introduce enhancements over the original logging action. I have converted the original function calls to an object based approach. This allows a logger object to be used, which looks cleaner and is initialised once. I have also introduced JSDoc documentation styles into my code. One bugbear that I have with
I have updated this page on 22nd Jan 2019 to introduce improvements over the original Action template and module structure. I have introduced the new logger object and JSDoc documentation styles into my code. Managing your code base in vRealize Orchestrator can be quite challenging and complex. Often, you won’t realise this until you’ve reached a point where it becomes
I have to say, I have been bursting with some excitement to recently discover this gem. phpVirtualBox is going to make a great addition to my server by allowing me to create and manage VirtualBox VM’s direct from my web browser. So just a small guide, sticking with the theme, on getting phpVirtualBox installed and running on CentOS 7.x. Install required packages