Running free VeeamZip directly from the vSphere Web Client
There are a lot of times I find myself needing to take a one-off backup job of a VM – prior...
Read More
Tag: vCO
Silently installing Veeam v8 Update 2 – at scale with vRO
It’s no surprise that most Veeam customers live with one or two Veeam Backup and Replication consoles – hey, it’s easier to manage, easier to report on, and easier to upgrade come update time if you keep your footprint to a...
Read More
Last weekend to shape your VMworld experience!
Every year VMware takes the thousands of session abstracts submitted by community members and puts...
Read More
To The Point – Removing stranded vCenter Orchestrator servers from vCenter
Ever have an issue that no matter what you do you can’t seem to get rid of an old vCenter...
Read MoreQuick To The Point – No port options on vCO ssh plug-in.
Do you run ssh on its standard and default port? I for one, do not. That's why I was surprised when I found that the built in workflows for the ssh plugin in vCO have no input parameter for port and simply ride along...
Read MoreMigrating workflows from one vCO server to another!
Although vCenter Orchestrator does offer an upgrade path for their appliances there are times where I have found myself needing to deploy a new one and migrate all of my configuration and workflows to it. vCO has some...
Read MoreKerberos authentication for the PowerShell plugin in vCO 5.5
The ability to have vCO kick off PowerShell scripts is pretty awesome! And the fact that you can kick these off contextually inside of the vSphere Web Client is even more awesome! Even more awesome than that, yes,...
Read MoreWhy Orchestrate?
As you all can probably tell by reading my blog lately I have went head first down a path that lead me directly to vCenter Orchestrator. Honestly, since doing that I haven't looked back. I've known about the...
Read MoreMy First vCenter Orchestrator Workflow – Part 6 – Resources
OK! Finally the end of this series! Honestly without the existence of the following resources there is no chance in hell that I would have been able to even develop a simple workflow, let along start scripting and what not. I...
Read MoreMy First vCenter Orchestrator Workflow – Part 5 – A little bit of SQL
Thus far in this series of posts we have installed and configured vCenter Orchestrator as well as setup and utilized a couple of plugins; the vCenter plug-in and the PowerShell plug-in. Before the series ends I wanted to go...
Read MoreMy First vCenter Orchestrator Workflow – Part 4 – A look at the Powershell Plug-in
Alright! So far throughout this series of posts we have installed, configured and setup vCenter Orchestrator; as well as created and tested the integration between both vCO and the vSphere Web Client. So what’s next in...
Read MoreMy First vCenter Orchestrator Workflow – Part 3 – Create a test workflow and see the awesomesauce
Ok we are finally getting somewhere now with this series! So far we have downloaded, installed, and configured our vCO appliance. As well, we have registered our vCO instance with both vCenter and our SSO instance. This post...
Read More
