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vCAC – Add VM Requester to Windows Local Admin Group
This is a request that I get frequently. The person requesting a Windows VM needs to be a local administrator, so that after the VM is provisioned they can begin to access via RDP and perform tasks that require this level of access (install software, for example). This can be accomplished using the Guest Agent…
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Using vCAC Resource Actions
vCloud Automation Center 6.0 includes a new and easier way to extend the machine action menus so that you can add just about any type of operation to the list. As you can see here, I’ve added an action to mount an ISO to a virtual CD drive on a VM. What’s involved? Well, for…
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vCAC Windows Deployment Stuck at CustomizeOS State
I ran into this issue in my lab recently. I configured my Windows VM template with the vCAC guest agent (gugent) and then created a blueprint that used the agent to run a script on the deployed machine. The machine state would stop every time on “CustomizeOS” and eventually the deployment would time out. From…
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Installing the Application Director 6.0 Bootstrap Agent on a Windows VM Template
In order to use a vCAC vSphere template with Application Director, you must install the Application Director agent on your VM. In this example, I have created a VM with Windows 2008 R2 that already has the vCAC guest agent installed. I will show how to add the Application Director agent and then prepare this…
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How to Modify or Disable Session Time Out for vCAC 6.0
The session time for the vCAC 6.0 console is set time timeout after 30 minutes. Depending on your security needs, it may be helpful to decrease, increase or disable the session timeout. You will need to modify a file on the vCAC 6.0 virtual appliance – DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK and please snapshot…
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Hyperic 5.8 Released – vApp Upgrade Instructions
VMware released a minor upgrade for Hyperic yesterday – release notes are here. Starting with the 5.0 release, VMware made a vApp version of Hyperic available. If you have deployed a previous version of the Hyperic and want to upgrade I have already documented the steps in a previous post – see here – but…
John Dias