Year: 2015
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Captain’s Log, Supplemental – HOL-SDC-1602, Migrating to VDS Using Host Profiles
As a Lab Captain for VMware’s Hands-on-Labs (HOL) this year, I enjoyed creating content for the lab “vSphere with Operations Management 6- Advanced Topics” (HOL-SDC-1602). However, I had to cut some of the content due to the length of the lab. One of the topics I had to cut was “Migrating to the vSphere Distributed…
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Get A List of vR Ops Available Metrics
When building dashboards, reports or even symptoms and alerts in vRealize Operations Manager 6, it may be helpful to have a handy reference of metrics available in a given instance of vR Ops. This is dependent on the solutions installed, of course, so this will vary from instance to instance. Also, with the vRealize Operations…
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Cannot Start a VM – A general system error occurred: Connection refused
The error referenced in the title was one I ran into today while trying to start some VMs. I finally found a KB somewhat related to this issue and the workaround did the trick for me. Basically, the vCenter Workflow Manager service had stopped on my vCenter server. In my case, I’m running the 6.0.0…
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Using Postman to Explore the vRealize Operations Manager 6 API
If you are like me, the concept of REST was something I understood but as a vAdmin I had no exposure to actually using for automation tasks. In short, the REST API provided with vR Ops 6 allows you to interact with vR Ops through scripts and workflows (i.e. vRealize Orchestrator). But before jumping into…
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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…
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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…
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Gotcha: vCM 5.7.3 Install on Windows Server 2012R2
Upgrading my lab and ran into an issue doing a fresh install of vCM 5.7.3 on a two-tier Windows 2012R2 setup. On the collector server, I was having two issues using the “Typical” install… 1 – During the pre-req inspection, I would get a couple of pop-ups stating that “Sysinspectoidwmi” module had stopped working. Clicking…