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    • vRA8 Custom Provisioning: Part Four

      calendar May 18, 2021  · edit May 20, 2021 · 10 min read · vmware vra vro javascript  ·
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      vRA8 Custom Provisioning: Part Four

      My last post in this series marked the completion of the vRealize Orchestrator workflow that I use for pre-provisioning tasks, namely generating a unique sequential hostname which complies with a defined naming standard and doesn't conflict with any existing records in vSphere, Active Directory, or DNS. That takes care …


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    • vRA8 Custom Provisioning: Part Three

      calendar Apr 19, 2021  · edit Oct 1, 2021 · 9 min read · vmware vra vro javascript powershell  ·
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      vRA8 Custom Provisioning: Part Three

      Picking up after Part Two, I now have a pretty handy vRealize Orchestrator workflow to generate unique hostnames according to a defined naming standard. It even checks against the vSphere inventory to validate the uniqueness. Now I'm going to take it a step (or two, rather) further and extend those checks against …


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    • vRA8 Custom Provisioning: Part Two

      calendar Apr 2, 2021  · edit Mar 23, 2022 · 21 min read · vmware vra vro javascript  ·
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      vRA8 Custom Provisioning: Part Two

      We last left off this series after I'd set up vRA, performed a test deployment off of a minimal cloud template, and then enhanced the simple template to use vRA tags to let the user specify where a VM should be provisioned. But these VMs have kind of dumb names; right now, they're just getting named after the user who …


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    • vRA8 Custom Provisioning: Part One

      calendar Mar 29, 2021 · 8 min read · vmware vra  ·
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      vRA8 Custom Provisioning: Part One

      I recently shared some details about my little self-contained VMware homelab as well as how I integrated {php}IPAM into vRealize Automation 8 for assigning IPs to deployed VMs. For my next trick, I'll be crafting a flexible Cloud Template and accompanying vRealize Orchestrator workflow that will help to deploy and …


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    • Integrating {php}IPAM with vRealize Automation 8

      calendar Feb 22, 2021 · 22 min read · python rest vmware vra networking  ·
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      Integrating {php}IPAM with vRealize Automation 8

      In a previous post, I described some of the steps I took to stand up a homelab including vRealize Automation (vRA) on an Intel NUC 9. One of my initial goals for that lab was to use it for developing and testing a way for vRA to leverage phpIPAM for static IP assignments. The homelab worked brilliantly for that …


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    • Using VS Code to explore giant log bundles

      calendar Feb 18, 2021 · 2 min read · logs vmware  ·
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      Using VS Code to explore giant log bundles

      I recently ran into a peculiar issue after upgrading my vRealize Automation homelab to the new 8.3 release, and the error message displayed in the UI didn't give me a whole lot of information to work with: I connected to the vRA appliance to try to find the relevant log excerpt, but doing so isn't all that …


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    • VMware Home Lab on Intel NUC 9

      calendar Feb 5, 2021 · 13 min read · vmware homelab vra lcm  ·
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      VMware Home Lab on Intel NUC 9

      I picked up an Intel NUC 9 Extreme kit a few months back (thanks, VMware!) and have been slowly tinkering with turning it into an extremely capable self-contained home lab environment. I'm pretty happy with where things sit right now so figured it was about time to start documenting and sharing what I've done. …


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    • PSA: halt replication before snapshotting linked vCenters

      calendar Jan 30, 2021 · 3 min read · vmware  ·
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      PSA: halt replication before snapshotting linked vCenters

      It's a good idea to take a snapshot of your virtual appliances before applying any updates, just in case. When you have multiple vCenter appliances operating in Enhanced Link Mode, though, it's important to make sure that the snapshots are in a consistent state. The vCenter vmdird service is responsible for …


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    • Logging in to Multiple vCenter Servers at Once with PowerCLI

      calendar Sep 16, 2020 · 2 min read · vmware powercli  ·
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      Logging in to Multiple vCenter Servers at Once with PowerCLI

      I manage a large VMware environment spanning several individual vCenters, and I often need to run PowerCLI queries across the entire environment. I waste valuable seconds running Connect-ViServer and logging in for each and every vCenter I need to talk to. Wouldn't it be great if I could just log into all of them at …


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