Friday this week, 21:st of February, i’ll join VMware Sweden when they’ll host a certification webinar. I will focus on the VCDX certifications i got and i guess it will be similar to the interview i had last year, together with Tomas Fojta, for VMware certification website, available on my blog here and on the public …
vCloud Automation Center 6.0 SP1 released
Yesterday, 2014-02-13 very late Swedish time, VMware released vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0 SP1. This is really good since i have seen quite a few things that will make my current vCAC projects a little bit easier. Below i have listed a few thing i’ll find very useful immediately. Error during import leads to data …
Heads up! vCloud Automation Center might delete VMs during import.
A few days ago i was informed about a potential problem/risk with the vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0 virtual machine (VM) import process. The problem can/will occur when you perform a VM import and using custom code in the (external stub workflow) during the vCAC VM provision state, WFStubMachineProvisioning. If this external stub workflow fails, …
Add vCenter Orchestrator as a vCloud Automation Center endpoint
Yesterday i was about to add vCenter Orchestrator 5.5 (vCO) as an EndPoint in vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0. The Enpoint option is not available if using the vCloud Suite license. There are quite a few blog posts about this already, you can find one by @viktoriouss here. This problem will be solved in the near …
Password complexity problem in vCloud Automation Center 6.0
Yesterday i encountered a password complexity problem when installing vCloud Automation Center 6.0. My customer requires a 24 character password for all their service accounts and the passwords are automatically generated. The vCAC service account for running the vCAC IaaS services was configured with the following password: )ERj%l28AFh2(RT)!8#”1234 Yeah i know 24 character for a …
Smart card authentication does not work with vCloud Automation Center 6.0
I’m currently in a vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0 project where all the potential end users must use smart card authentication. This is a company policy and we can not change this requirement. Apparently there is a bug in vCAC and the SSO integration which prevent us from being able to use smart card to …
Create multiple VMs using PowerCLI
A couple of days ago i received a request from a customer asking for a PowerCLI script to create VMs. There were a couple of requirements for the script. Specify the number of VMs to be created. The VMs must be powered on after the creation. The VMs must be placed on all ESXi hosts …
Ipeer – a new VCDX56 sponsor
It is with great pleasure i announce that the Swedish cloud and hosting services company ipeer has decided to become a VCDX56 blog sponsor. Ipeer is a leading provider of corporate cloud- and hosting services in Sweden, providing a very broad portfolio of services to enable optimal solutions. Ipeer is both a VMware VSPP and a …
VMTurbo Operations Manager 4.5 released
Today VMTurbo announced the release of VMTurbo Operations Manager version 4.5. A new dashboard is introduced which aims to unify your infrastructure elements and technologies under a single topology. Two control modules are released which i believe will be very appreciated: VMTurbo Fabric Control Module – This module enable support for management of the Converged Fabric layer with Cisco …
Swedish victory in trotting race Prix D Amerique
This will be the first blog post posted that will not include any job related stuff at all. As mention in the about section of my blog you can apart from job related stuff also see blog post about trotting. The last sunday in January every year the world toughest trotting race, Prix d’Amerique, takes …
EVRY – a new VCDX56 sponsor
It is with great pleasure i announce that the IT company EVRY has decided to become a VCDX56 blog sponsor. EVRY is one of the leading IT companies in the Nordic region. Through ideas, technology and solutions, EVRY brings information to life, creating value for its customers’ businesses and making a positive contribution to society. EVRY …
PHD Virtual ReliableDR version 3.3 released
PHDvirtual has released the version 3.3 of their ReliableDR product and it brings a couple of interesting enhancements such as: Pay Per Use Reporting for Cloud Service Providers Out of the Box Linux Application Testing Enhancements to the replication engine Expanded Storage Hardware Support Increased RPO Compliance Recovery Job Reporting The release notes can be found …
ESXi host VMkernel.Boot.terminateVMOnPDL configuration using PowerCLI
I have already written a blog post about how you can configure the ESXi host setting disk.terminateVMOnPDLDefault in vSphere version 5.1. You can find that blog post here. I have received a couple of questions about how to configure the setting, called VMkernel.Boot.terminateVMOnPDL, in ESXi 5.5 so i decided to put together a blog post about it. …
VMware vCenter Server 5.1 Update 2 and VMware ESXi 5.1 Update 2 released
VMware released VMware vCenter Server 5.1 U2 and VMware ESXi 5.1 U2 yesterday. I got quite a few customers running vSphere 5.1 and some of the problems fixed in update 2 has been seen in my customers environments so this is great news. One thing i know will be really appreciated, at least among my …
vCloud Automation Center network selection during VM request
During last weeks vCloud Automation Center 6.0 proof of concept (POC) i was asked by my customer to make it possible to select different vSphere vNetwork Distributed Switch port groups (VDS-PG) during the virtual machine (VM) request step. I used the below steps to create a drop down menu for the end user while requesting …