VMware has just publicly announced its latest update to its virtualisation platform, vSphere version 6.5. One of the most interesting new features for me is the introduction of a vSphere vCenter Rest API. It's a feature that is very welcome with RESTful API's being so standard now.
The new …
more ...In my first article I gave an overview of the new vSphere vCenter Rest API as part of vSphere 6.5. The API currently focuses on VM lifecycle features which I'm going to provide a few examples of.
As part of the GA release of vSphere 6.5 VMware will …
more ...I've recently discovered an annoying flaw with Wake-on-LAN (WoL) on Synology NAS devices. Earlier this year I put together some Python scripts that use APCUPSD to shutdown my ESXi hosts and Synology NAS cleanly when the UPS battery is at a critical level. APCUPSD then sends a power off command …
more ...I’m always trying to automate as many processes at work. Earlier this year we started working on trying to automate as much of Infrastructure deployment as possible. Turning manual processes which require a lot of documentation into code that can be stored in source control. This is commonly known …
more ...Today I’ve been working on a VMware vCenter Orchestrator workflow to add custom fields on a Virtual Machine. To do this you need to check if the custom field has been created on vCenter using the method addCustomFieldDef on the VcCustomFieldsManager object.
var customFieldsManager = VirtualMachine.sdkConnection.customFieldsManager;
customFieldsManager.addCustomFieldDef …This week I have been doing some work with the VMware vSphere 5.5 vCenter Server Appliance (5.5.0.5100 Build 1312297). During this testing I ran into problems setting up AD Authentication with a Windows 2012 domain within vCSA. The message displayed was Error: Enabling Active Directory failed …
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