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Likewise LDAP account Expires on vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.x Issue with vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.x: vCAC tenants become inaccessible, the LDAP/AD connection seems to be unavailable/removed is Single Sign On (SSO). The exact symptoms of this issue are: vCAC 6.x seems to be running fine for a couple of months, suddenly tenants become inaccesible; The LDAP/AD connection in the default tenant disappears and error message is reported by vCAC; You see error messages in the catalina.out log file similar…

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vCloud Automation Center 6.1 Version Update h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,.site-title{ font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif; } VMware vCloud Automation Center® 6.1 Release Notes vCloud Automation Center 6.1 | 09 SEP 2014 | Build 2077124 Updated on: 19 SEP 2014 Check for additions and updates to these release notes. What’s in the Release Notes The release notes cover the following topics: What’s New System Requirements and Installation Documentation Resolved Issues Known Issues What’s New Migrating a vCloud Automation Center version 5.2.1 or 5.2.2 deployment to…

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Setting the Machine Name of a vCAC-provisioned VM to comply with a Corporate Standard – Part 1 of 4 http://brianragazzi.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/setting-the-machine-name-of-a-vcac-provisioned-vm-to-comply-with-a-corporate-standard-part-1-of-4/ Setting the Machine Name of a vCAC-provisioned VM to comply with a Corporate Standard – Part 1 of 4 03/17/2014Brian Ragazzi Machine Prefix/Property Definition – Part 1 Powershell – Part 2 Workflow modification – Part 3 Blueprint Update – Part 4 Important Aside You should visit Adam Bohle’s blog and his fantastic posts about this. He knows way more about it…

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Finding Mounted Media on VMware VMs $datacenters=get-datacenter foreach ($dc in $datacenters) { $vms = get-datacenter -name $dc | get-vm foreach($vm in $vms) { if(get-cddrive -VM $vm | where {$_.HOSTPATH -ne $null}) { write-host $vm.name write-host $vm.vmhost write-host $dc.Name write-host „” } } }

Delete VM Snapshots in PowerCLI To view the snapshots for a Virtual Machine before you remove them, you can type the following command replacing VMname with the name of your Virtual Machine: Get-Snapshot VMname | select name,id In the command above, I select to see the name and id which will give you a list of the servers snapshot names and snapshot IDs. The ID will be important to note when being asked to confirm the removal of the snapshot…

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Consolidate snapshots in vSphere 5 with PowerCLI Use PowerCLI to consolidate snapshots in vSphere 5   In vSphere 5 a virtual machine can have a “Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed” Configuration Issue warning in the Summary tab. How can you use PowerCLI to see which virtual machines have this warning? And how can you automate the consolidation of the virtual machine’s disks? List virtual machines that need disks consolidation The PowerCLI command in listing 1 will return all the virtual…

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vCAC/vCO Variables Exposure h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,.site-title{ font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif; } System.log(“Workflow started on vCAC host ” + vCACHost.displayName); System.log(“Got vCAC virtual machine ” + vCACVm.virtualMachineName); System.log(“Matching virtual machine entity ” + virtualMachineEntity.keyString);   if (vCACVmProperties != null) { var log = “”; log += “vCAC VM properties :\n”; var array = new Array(); for each (var key in vCACVmProperties.keys) { array.push(“\t\”” + key + “\”: \”” + vCACVmProperties.get(key) + “\””); } array.sort();   for each (var line in array) { log…

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