When using the Event Broker Service in vRealize Automation it may be usefull to access the AMQP management interface. However the this interface is disabled by default. Following steps allow you to enable the AMQP management interface. Connect to the vRA appliance via SSH and login as root Open the RabbitMQ management …

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For one of my customers I had to come up with a solution to automate the vCenter inventory creation. The solution needed to: Support multiple vCenters Standardise the vCenter inventory configuration Support multiple vCenter environments eg. Production, Lab. vCenter permissions depend on the environment, each …

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I was looking arround for some uniform icons for vRealize Automation. I came accros Ryan Kelly’s vRA icon pack. This icon pack contains icons for several wellknown applications and services. Unfortunatly they do not have a uniform design nor colorscheme. While many commercial icon packs are available I wanted …

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One of my intentions for 2018 was to relaunch my blog. For several years I have had a blog which I completely neglected. My previous post dates back to 2013 :-( I decided to migrate my blog away from wordpress, where it was previously hosted. The reason behind this migration is twofold Use the blog to learn additional …

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I wrote a PowerCLI script for a customer to organize his datastores in a couple of folders. The script moves the datastore to a folder according to the vSphere hosts cluster that uses the datastore.

This is done based on the name of the datastore which contains an identifier for the cluster it’s connected to. The …

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During failover tests in a stretched metro cluster environment we ran into some problems when recovering from a Permanent Device Loss state (PDL). The failover tests ran successfully. The vSphere servers reacted as expected when testing a split-brain scenario on the VPLEX cluster. The VMs which where running in the …

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During the installation of vCenter 5.1 on a Windows server 2012 I ran into an issue where the installation of the vCenter failed. The prerequisite services installed without problems but the vCenter service failed to install. The installation stopped with a Failed to install VMware vSphere Profile-Driven Storage error. …

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Integrating Hyperic within VCOPS is fairly simple and similar to integrating other solutions. VCOPS uses adapters to establish this integration. First step is to install the Hyperic adapter, this process is the same as updating the VCOPS installation. Open the update tab in the administration portal. Point the update …

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After the installation of the latest vSphere 4.1 patches all our hosts showed a warning regarding the Tech Support Modes being enabled. I took the time to write a script to start/stop theses services on the hosts in the vCenter server. Image not found Web path: …

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One of our vSphere host showed as disconnected in vCenter. Connecting directly to the host with the vSphere client wouldn’t work neither. When restaring the services on the host I was able to connect directly but within one minute the connection between the client and the host would be lost. Image not found Web …

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