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StorageGumbo: March 2014
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Saturday, March 29, 2014. Publish an Application Director blueprint to the vCAC Catalog. This post covers how to publish you VMware Application Director (AppDir) 6.x application blueprints to the vCAC 6.x catalog so that users can request them. This post assumes you have a knowledge of AppDir blueprints and have configured AppDir 6.x with a vCAC 6.x cloud provider. Clicking the "Publish" button will provide you a dialog to set the name and description for the catalog item in vCAC. Links to this post.
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StorageGumbo: August 2013
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Monday, August 19, 2013. Use a Clean Blueprint When Importing Existing Infra into vCAC. A customer ran into this recently and suggested I post it on my blog. He even let me use his screen shots! The problem was that after importing some existing VMs it was noted that the Action Items available were limited to just a few selections. To avoid any problems like this when importing unmanaged VMs into vCAC, VMware recommends creating a new, clean, simple blueprint. You can always customize the blueprint later...
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StorageGumbo: Using a Cloned VM as a SQL Server - Gotcha for vCAC Install
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Monday, September 1, 2014. Using a Cloned VM as a SQL Server - Gotcha for vCAC Install. Installing the newest version of vCAC in a lab, I ran into an issue I thought only I would encounter - turns out a peer ran into the very same issue a couple of days later so I thought I would post the problem and solution. Finally, you will see these type of entries in the IaaS vCAC server log (also can see this in the vCAC UI under Infrastructure Monitoring Log) -. What has happened is due to the clone of the VM for...
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StorageGumbo: A Postman Collection of vRealize Automation 6 API Calls
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Friday, April 10, 2015. A Postman Collection of vRealize Automation 6 API Calls. I recently had a demo request for the vRealize Automation 6 consumer REST API and I put together a quick collection of Postman REST calls for the demo so I wouldn't have to type them out or search my history during the demo. I thought I would share them here as others might find this collection useful when exploring the API. The collection JSON can be found here. As of this posting, I have 8 REST calls in the collection.
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StorageGumbo: April 2015
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015. Adding New Property Sets in vRealize Automation 6. Build Profiles in vRA are a great time saver for managing sets of custom properties that share a common purpose. When you create Build Profiles, you can add sets of custom properties without having to refer to the vRA documentation with Property Sets. It would be handy to create your own property sets - for example, I'm always looking up the properties needed to envoke the Guest Agent. I just can't seem to remember them! Infrastr...
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StorageGumbo: August 2014
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Thursday, August 14, 2014. How to Modify or Disable the Idle Session Timeout on Application Director 6. The Application Director UI is set by default to log you out after 60 minutes of inactivity. This is a good security practice, but you may wish to modify this time to a longer or shorter period - or even disable it. As described in an earlier post on modifying the session timeout for the vCAC 6.0 UI. You simply need to modify the following file on your AppD virtual appliance. Links to this post. Althou...
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StorageGumbo: July 2015
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Friday, July 24, 2015. Using Postman to Explore the vRealize Operations Manager 6 API. For that, I have prepared a video walking you through a set of Postman REST calls I put together in a collection. I have grown to like Postman, which is a Google Chrome extension, as my REST client of choice. Using Postman, I can formulate and test REST calls that I may wish to use with scripts and workflows, or just quickly grab information or make changes. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Welcome to th...
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StorageGumbo: Install Gotcha: vCAC, Windows Server 2012 and the Guest Agent
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Thursday, September 11, 2014. Install Gotcha: vCAC, Windows Server 2012 and the Guest Agent. If you are using Windows Server 2012 or later for your IaaS install it is recommended that you disable TLS1.2 on the IIS server. From the vCAC 6.1 install guide (IaaS Windows Server Requirements):. For certificates using SHA512, TLS1.2 disabled on Windows 2012 machines. The security protocol settings are available in the registry only. Fortunately, you can use this handy utility. October 24, 2014 at 1:41 PM.
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StorageGumbo: July 2014
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Monday, July 14, 2014. VCAC Inflate a Thin Disk. I had a customer contact me this week to ask about a vCAC custom property setting that didnt seem to be working. The background is, they wanted to have all templates staged as thin provisioned but on deployment they would like them to be thick. UPDATE 2* Sorry that this issue is a moving target, but after looking at this with my customer it seems that the issue is related to Storage DRS in some way. Ill update this post as I learn more. Links to this post.
