Tag: Archived
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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…
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Use a Clean Blueprint When Importing Existing Infra into vCAC
A customer ran into this recently and suggested I post it on my blog. He even let me use his screen shots! (Thanks Joseph). The problem was that after importing some existing VMs it was noted that the Action Items available were limited to just a few selections. Upon examining the screen shot, you may…
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Setting up LDAP with vFabric Application Director and a 2008 AD Domain Controller
Hopefully this will save you some time in setting up – the documentation provides pretty good overview of how to do this, but some details are left out. This guide should get you up and running for a basic configuration. First, you will need to run the darwin-cli either remotely or from the AppD appliance. …
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Upgrading vCenter Configuration Manager from version 5.6 to 5.7
VMware released an update to vCenter Configuration Manager this month and I thought I would document my experience upgrading my lab instance. The upgrade steps are clearly documented in the Advanced Install Guide starting on page 129 (as of this posting). In my lab is a two-tier install as follows: VCMDB – Windows 2008…
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vCD vApp Deployment Fails for vCAC Blueprints on Windows Administrator password setting
I ran across this while building a lab for a customer this week and hopefully this will save you a little time. When I built the vApps in vCloud Director 5.1.2 I selected the “Reset Password” option in the VM Properties as shown below…. However, this setting in a vApp template causes the vCAC vApp…