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 Moreby mwpreston | Apr 25, 2016 | All Articles, Automation & Scripting, Day to Day SysAdmin, Posts | 0 |
There are a lot of times I find myself needing to take a one-off backup job of a VM – prior...
Read Moreby Mike Preston | May 6, 2015 | All Articles, Day to Day SysAdmin, Posts | 0 |
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 Moreby Mike Preston | May 16, 2014 | All Articles, Posts | 0 |
Every year VMware takes the thousands of session abstracts submitted by community members and puts...
Read Moreby Mike Preston | May 2, 2014 | All Articles, Day to Day SysAdmin, Posts | 0 |
Ever have an issue that no matter what you do you can’t seem to get rid of an old vCenter...
Read Moreby Mike Preston | Apr 4, 2014 | All Articles, Day to Day SysAdmin, Posts | 0 |
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 Moreby Mike Preston | Apr 3, 2014 | All Articles, Automation & Scripting, Day to Day SysAdmin, Posts | 3 |
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 Moreby Mike Preston | Dec 12, 2013 | All Articles, Automation & Scripting, Day to Day SysAdmin, Posts | 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 Moreby Mike Preston | Jun 28, 2013 | All Articles, Day to Day SysAdmin, Posts | 1 |
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 Moreby Mike Preston | May 29, 2013 | All Articles, Automation & Scripting, My First vCO workflow, Posts | 0 |
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 Moreby Mike Preston | May 8, 2013 | All Articles, Automation & Scripting, My First vCO workflow, Posts | 2 |
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 Moreby mwpreston | Apr 19, 2013 | All Articles, Automation & Scripting, My First vCO workflow, Posts | 1 |
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 Moreby mwpreston | Apr 11, 2013 | All Articles, Automation & Scripting, My First vCO workflow, Posts | 0 |
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...
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