Category: VMware

Set Mime Type for Resource Element in vRealize Orchestrator

September 13, 2017

A resource element allows for the use of external objects as attributes in workflows created independently of vRealize Orchestrator. For example, items such as JSON templates.  By importing the external object as a resource element allows for changes to the object and for those changes to be propagated to all workflows that use the resource … More Set Mime Type for Resource Element in vRealize Orchestrator

Return REST host by name from vRO HTTP-REST Plug-in

August 31, 2017

The HTTP-REST Plug-in allows for the interaction between vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) and REST hosts by defining services and their operations as inventory objects. When creating a workflow to remove the requirement to specify the REST:RESTHost type object as input parameter, I prefer to discover and return the type object by name this is particularly useful … More Return REST host by name from vRO HTTP-REST Plug-in

Identifying orphoned virtual machines and hard disks in vSphere

January 29, 2017

Connect to the shell of the ESXi host system and browse to location of the datastore (/vmfs/volumes/{datastore name}) to which you want to identity orphoned virtual machine hard disks and invoke the following command. This will return all virtual machine hard disks to which the modified date is seven days in the past (-mtime +7) … More Identifying orphoned virtual machines and hard disks in vSphere

vCenter Server 5.5 Update 3a: Update fails with Warning 32014.

January 21, 2016

Recently during an upgrade of a an instance of a vCenter Server System to 5.5 Update 3a the installation returned an error with the following message: Warning 32014. A utility for phone home data collector couldn’t be executed successfully Please see its log file (with name PhoneHome) and vminst.log in system temporary folder for more … More vCenter Server 5.5 Update 3a: Update fails with Warning 32014.

Consolidating unmounted and open snapshots after virtual machine backup

August 20, 2015

At times, one or more disks from a virtual machine will remain mounted and snapshots will remain following the backup of a virtual machine. The cause of this is generally due to their not being enough time to unmount the disks and consolidate the snapshots when the job completes. This would require user interaction to … More Consolidating unmounted and open snapshots after virtual machine backup