At the company I work for, we just recently upgraded our vCenter Server from 5.5U1 to 5.5U2. To keep in sync with the versioning we also decided to upgrade our vCenter Orchestrator instance. The pr...
vBrownBag Lab Host
In case you’re not familiar, the vBrownBag is a community podcast/webinar series that was started in 2011 by Cody Bunch. Before I get into the post, I’d like to extend a big Thank You for all that ...
Bootstrapping the Chef Windows Client Through vCenter Orchestrator
Over the past few weeks, our team has been talking internally about Configuration Management and why we need to get it implemented. This is an important step in the evolution of our IT Infrastructu...
Replacing SSL Certificates for VMware App Volumes
VMware App Volumes recently released this week, and I have been fortunate enough to spend the past few days setting it up and deploying various AppStacks. Most of the AppStacks that have been dep...
Amazon Management Portal for vCenter – VM to EC2 Instance
Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past few years, you more than likely have heard of “cloud computing” and the major players that eat up the marketshare in that space. The company I work for ...
SRM – Protect VM Error
Over the last few months, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time deploying and configuring services in our Disaster Recovery datacenter. The majority of services had been configured, and SRM was ...
HP Agentless Monitoring Service Bug
Early last week, I ran into some issues where recently patched hosts were unable to perform any vMotion operations, or provision new data stores. After some investigation, we validated that all of ...