Tag: Automation
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Validating Connection Result of Connect-VIServer
Validating connection result of Connect-VIServer is trick since VMware doesn’t use the standard way of throwing errors.
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Network Problems of Auto Deployed ESXi Host in LAB
I built a simple Auto Deploy environment by vSphere 6.5 on nested environment. I created virtual ESXi hosts on a physical ESXi host to do the testing. The whole configuration was smoothly, I’m impressed Auto Deploy can be implemented in few hours. One thing bothered me was networking. New ESXi hosts cannot get IP addresses…
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vRealize Automation 7 初始设置
vRealize Automation 7 (vRA 7)和vRA6比起来有很多增强和改进。网上有大量的文章介绍这方面以及安装方法。vRA7的初始设置和vRA6有很大不同。以下是我的一些经验，可以帮你快速搭建实验环境。
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在vCO中将字符串转为对象
当创建虚拟机的时候你可能需要将虚拟机根据不同的属性放入不同的OU中，比如根据角色、组、用户组等。在vRealize Automation Center (vRA)中可以很轻易地创建一个下拉菜单实现这类属性的选择，但是这类属性的值往往都以字符串的形式传递到vRO中，而vRO的活动目录工作流中并没有提供字符串转OU对象的功能。
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Convert string to OU object in vRO
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…
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How to call customized vRealize Orchestrator workflows in vRealize Automation Center
You almost can do everything as long as vRealize Automation Center (aka vRA) and vRealize Orchestrator (aka vRO) are integrated. I think that’s the hard part if you are newbie like me. After reading lot of articles, I learned how it works. Following is my experience, please let me know if you see anything wrong.…