The vCenter plugin has a very useful method for retrieving a list of objects quickly and easily. However, if your inventory is quite large, then this can be quite slow. There are two ways that this can be improved. 1) only retrieve the attributes that are useful for our code requirements, 2) use an XPATH query filter to limit the
Category: VMware
I do a lot of work that involves either creating new virtual hard disks or attaching existing ones to virtual machines in VMware vSphere. I do all of this through vRealize Orchestrator, written in JavaScript (yum). As part of this task, I always ensure that the datastores that I am creating disks on have sufficient capacity for these new disks.
When a vRO workflow or action is called from vRA, additional input parameters (in addition to those specified as the workflow/action inputs) are provided in the Execution Context object of the workflow. These can be very useful as they contain additional data that can be used inside the workflows. A couple of good examples would be the user that requested
Nothing frustrates me more than returning to the vRA UI, clicking something and then have it immediately log me out. This appears to be quite random a lot of the time and whilst I can appreciate that this is in the interest of security, I find it a little too aggressive. This can be changed by extending the life of the
I have come across this issue a number of times where the secondary vRO cluster node is not in sync with the primary node (one thing to note is that the synchronisation status is relative to the node you are logged on to). The option to synchronise the nodes is not available because I am using vRO that comes embedded
When I was building vRA 7 and figuring everything out, at some point I set the ‘Default machine prefix‘ for the Business Groups. When you first create a Business Group, setting the default machine prefix is optional; However, if you do set this value then there is no way to unset it, which I find extremely annoying. As I don’t
OK, so everyone loves a top 5 so here is a list of my top 5 resources for learning and deploying vRealize Automation. 1. VMware Hands on Labs. Take ‘HOL-SDC-1633 vRealize Automation 7: What’s New‘. – Despite the name this is a really in depth tutorial and you will want to complete the entire lab. This will give you a good feel
Before purchasing or installing the software one of the first things you need to understand is what vRA is trying to solve. Unlike what VMware has released previously, vRA is a very different and tries to solve the problems related to managing multiple cloud platforms and the end to end delivery of IT services. Yes, there are a lot of tools