When you put virtual machine to particular OU, you may refer to virtual machine properties, such as ‘server role’, ‘server group’ or ‘user group’…etc. It’s easy to set a drop-list in blueprint of vRealize Automation Center (vRA) to let users choose this kind of properties but hard to create a computer account in corresponded OU location in vRO. That’s because vRA passes most of values to vRO as strings, Active Directory workflows in vRO do not provide a way to convert string to OU.
Year: 2015
Inventory Service Cannot be Brought Up
One day, my vCenter Server suddenly lost search. It popped me “Unable to connect to web services to execute query. Verify that the ‘VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices’ service is running on https://vCenter_Server_FQDN:10443” when I did object search on vSphere Client. Few hours later people starting complaint they got error on vSphere Web Client, it show “Client is not authenticated to VMware Inventory Service – https://Inventory_Service_FQDN:10443“.
新建的Super Metric不显示
今天在vRealize Operation Manager 6.0创建了几个super metric，主要用来计算ESXi主机的物理链路吞吐量。结果发现这些super metric只是出现在部分主机里。估计是有什么bug。快速解决的办法是重启一下vROps vApp。
New Created Super Metric Doesn’t Appear for Objects
Today I created few super metrics on vRealize Operation Manager 6.0 to calculate throughput of physical links on ESXi host. The super metrics just present to part of the selected hosts. I guess it’s some kind of minor bug. A reboot of vROps vApp can works around it. Just heads up.
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How to Remove Default Dashboards in vRealize Operation Manager
I don’t know why VMware doesn’t allow hidden default dashboards in VMware design vRealize Operation Manager (vROps). They also states no solution in current version. I searched internet, only thing I found was a community post that someone wants to delete the dashboards, but no proper answer.
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如何移除vRealize Operation Manager中的默认仪表板
不知道VMware在设计vRealize Operation Manager (vROps)时是怎么想的，默认的仪表板竟然无法移除。官方也明确表示暂时没有办法。在网上搜了一下，唯一有一篇论坛的帖子提到这个问题，但也没有一个解决方案。
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Windows Server 2016 技术预览3内核模式 – 远程管理技巧
微软刚刚发布了Windows Server 2016的技术预览3。新版本中有很多增强，看起来微软的软件定义的数据中心正在赶上VMware。一个稳定的虚拟层是软件定义数据中心的前提，但这是微 软的软肋。你不得不不停地打各种补丁和重启服务器，甚至有些企业有定期的重启计划。微软在Windows Server 2008 的时候引入了核心模式并且在Windows Server 2012 R2中得到增强。但是Windows Server 2012 R2瞄准的是中小企业市场，我不认为他们会使用核心模式，因为复杂度要提升很多。
How to retrieve or set Path Selection Policy by vCLI
First of all, this article is nothing related to PowerCLI. You probably know how to set Path Selection Policy (PSP) by vSphere Client, but how you can set up 100 LUNs manually? We have some script can make your life easy.
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如何使用vCLI获取或设定路径选择策略
首先，这篇文章不是关于PowerCLI的。也许你知道用vSphere Client可以设置LUN的路径选择策略，但是如果需要修改100个LUN呢？脚本可以轻松搞定。
如何使用PowerCLI获取物理RDM LUN的路径选择策略
获取RDM磁盘信息是一件很磨人的事儿，如果你很仔细你就需要把每台都检查一遍以确保信息是一致的。研究出来两行命令，可以批量获取RDM磁盘信息。