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Setting up VMware Update Manager service for isolated networks (1004455) Purpose This article provides steps for setting up VMware Update Manager to patch ESX hosts that do not have connectivity to Internet. Note: For information about vCenter Update Manager 4.x, see the VMware vCenter Update Manager Administration Guide, Configure an Apache or an IIS Web server as a patch source for vCenter Update Manager (1019288) and Install PowerPath/VE for VMware vSphere by using vCenter Update Manager and UMDS (1019844). Resolution To setup…

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Likewise LDAP account Expires on vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.x Issue with vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.x: vCAC tenants become inaccessible, the LDAP/AD connection seems to be unavailable/removed is Single Sign On (SSO). The exact symptoms of this issue are: vCAC 6.x seems to be running fine for a couple of months, suddenly tenants become inaccesible; The LDAP/AD connection in the default tenant disappears and error message is reported by vCAC; You see error messages in the catalina.out log file similar…

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vCloud Automation Center 6.1 Version Update h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,.site-title{ font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif; } VMware vCloud Automation Center® 6.1 Release Notes vCloud Automation Center 6.1 | 09 SEP 2014 | Build 2077124 Updated on: 19 SEP 2014 Check for additions and updates to these release notes. What’s in the Release Notes The release notes cover the following topics: What’s New System Requirements and Installation Documentation Resolved Issues Known Issues What’s New Migrating a vCloud Automation Center version 5.2.1 or 5.2.2 deployment to…

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Setting the Machine Name of a vCAC-provisioned VM to comply with a Corporate Standard – Part 1 of 4 http://brianragazzi.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/setting-the-machine-name-of-a-vcac-provisioned-vm-to-comply-with-a-corporate-standard-part-1-of-4/ Setting the Machine Name of a vCAC-provisioned VM to comply with a Corporate Standard – Part 1 of 4 03/17/2014Brian Ragazzi Machine Prefix/Property Definition – Part 1 Powershell – Part 2 Workflow modification – Part 3 Blueprint Update – Part 4 Important Aside You should visit Adam Bohle’s blog and his fantastic posts about this. He knows way more about it…

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Finding Mounted Media on VMware VMs $datacenters=get-datacenter foreach ($dc in $datacenters) { $vms = get-datacenter -name $dc | get-vm foreach($vm in $vms) { if(get-cddrive -VM $vm | where {$_.HOSTPATH -ne $null}) { write-host $vm.name write-host $vm.vmhost write-host $dc.Name write-host „” } } }

Delete VM Snapshots in PowerCLI To view the snapshots for a Virtual Machine before you remove them, you can type the following command replacing VMname with the name of your Virtual Machine: Get-Snapshot VMname | select name,id In the command above, I select to see the name and id which will give you a list of the servers snapshot names and snapshot IDs. The ID will be important to note when being asked to confirm the removal of the snapshot…

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Consolidate snapshots in vSphere 5 with PowerCLI Use PowerCLI to consolidate snapshots in vSphere 5   In vSphere 5 a virtual machine can have a “Virtual machine disks consolidation is needed” Configuration Issue warning in the Summary tab. How can you use PowerCLI to see which virtual machines have this warning? And how can you automate the consolidation of the virtual machine’s disks? List virtual machines that need disks consolidation The PowerCLI command in listing 1 will return all the virtual…

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vCAC/vCO Variables Exposure h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,.site-title{ font-family: ‘Open Sans’, sans-serif; } System.log(“Workflow started on vCAC host ” + vCACHost.displayName); System.log(“Got vCAC virtual machine ” + vCACVm.virtualMachineName); System.log(“Matching virtual machine entity ” + virtualMachineEntity.keyString);   if (vCACVmProperties != null) { var log = “”; log += “vCAC VM properties :\n”; var array = new Array(); for each (var key in vCACVmProperties.keys) { array.push(“\t\”” + key + “\”: \”” + vCACVmProperties.get(key) + “\””); } array.sort();   for each (var line in array) { log…

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Configure Multiple or Additional vCloud Automation Center Appliances Configure Multiple or Additional vCloud Automation Center Appliances The system administrator can copy the configuration from the primary instance of the vCloud Automation Center Appliance to additional instances to ensure that all appliances in the deployment are configured identically. Procedure 1 Log in to the secondary vCloud Automation Center Appliance that you just deployed by using SSH. 2 Copy the following files from the primary instance of the vCloud Automation Center Appliance…

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PowerCLI to Cleanup Snapshots # Display Snapshots Get-Snapshot -VM * -Name ‘PreUpdate*’ | Select VM,Name,Description # Delete Snapshots Get-Snapshot -VM * -Name ‘PreUpdate*’ | Remove-Snapshot -RunAsync

vCenter Server rollup jobs and processing performance data SOURCE: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007388 Determining if vCenter Server rollup jobs are processing performance data (2007388) Symptoms Excessive growth of the vCenter Server database. vCenter Server rollup jobs do exist. Slow response or timeouts when retrieving performance data. Only Real Time data is available when looking at performance data. When accessing performance data for a period other than the last 24 hours, you see the message: Performance data is currently not available for this entity Resolution…

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Source: https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1014508 as of Apr2016 VMware vSphere and vCloud suite build numbers table This table provides a list of all VMware vSphere and vCloud suite build numbers and release dates. The build numbers are based on full installations. Patching ESXi/ESX hosts increments and build numbers listed in the vCenter Server. Note: In the table, the column marked Build Number is the number you see in the Client. The Installer Build Number is only used to identify the installer and not…

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