ASD Pre-Execution vRA Properties in vRO
I'm working on building Veeam as a Service. One thing we would like to do is display a list of vCenter VMs and Folders the business group creating backups can select to add to a backup job when its...
View ArticleQuerying customProperties via vRA Cafe API
I am trying to get a list of Custom Properties attached to a given Business Group via the vRA 6.2.1 Cafe appliance REST API. For some reason I can only get a few of the attributes of the Business...
View ArticleVCAC 6.x Error has been caught, see event logs located on the vCAC server for...
Afternoon We have had VCAC 6.0.1 running for a while now without problems. From some yet unknown reason our tenants are unable to request new Catalog items, receiving error ""Unable to complete the...
View ArticleVCAA 6.1 REST API - retrieve IP of provisioned VM
Hello, Despite some struggle, I've managed to provision an AWS EC2 instance via the REST API on VCloud Automation Center 6.1. While retrieving the details from the REST API on the VM i provisioned, I...
View Articleunable to get plugin list from external VCO server
Hello , I am having difficulty obtainining plugins from External VCO server after i has extablished connection with it from VCAC server.I did trail for the logs and found the below trace 4 (Plugin...
View ArticleSetting a VM password in vRA Blueprint?
HI, I'm wondering what other people typically do when setting passwords on VMs using Blueprints?At present I prompt the end user for a password (custom property, no encrypt) and pass this to...
View ArticleChange the VCAC owner of a VM through VCO.
I am able to get the owner with the below code... Not sure how to change the owner. Below captures the owner name of the VCAC VM.var ownerEntity = virtualMachineEntity.getLink(vCACHost,"Owner")[0];var...
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External PostgressSQL database appliance fails to upgrade form 6.2.0 from 6.2.1
Just posting this here in case anyone else runs into this. If you're running a distributed install and you followed vmware's instruction for setting up the external postgressql database you may run...
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vCAC 6.1 - adding a second vCenter and migrating all vCAC VMs & Hosts to it...
Hello, due to some network changes in my org I will have to add a second vCenter to the vCAC environment and migrate the Hosts and virtual machines, which were created up until now, to it. Basically I...
View Articleerror 404 following /vcac
Hi, folks!I've just deployed vRA 6.2 in minimal mode. When I follow this link https://vra01.test.local/vcacI get the error: HTTP Status 404 - /vcac What can I do to resolve it?Thanks.
View ArticlevCAC Deisgn document
Hello, Can anyone please share vCAC 6 sample design document or the template in doc format? I searched on web but could not find any relevant document. Thanks in advance..
View ArticleMigration from Cisco CIAC to VMware vCAC 6.x
Hi,Am looking for a document or migration approach where we can migrate all stuff from cisco CIAC to VMware vCAC. Kindly assist.
View ArticleDecommissioned ESXi hosts listed as available compute resources
Morning everyone, It appears that there are old ESXi hosts still listed as valid compute resources when editing my main fabric group. These servers have been decommissioned and remove from the...
View ArticleVM Creation with ASD -- Need advice
Hi All, There am thinking of two ways of creating vm resources with Advance Services designer. Let me know your thoughts. 1. ASD service invoking VCO workflow Infrastructure: 1. VCO...
View ArticleMigrate vCAC Managed VMs from vCenter 5.5 (Windows install) to vCenter 6 (VCSA)
We're looking at moving to vSphere 6 appliances from vSphere 5.5 Windows installs. We currently have machines built and managed by vCAC 6.2. We've done infrastructure upgrades in the past by creating...
View Article"Approval at" policy in VCAC 5.2 not working
Using vCAC 5.2.4. We have a approval policy setup for cpu and memory. When a user reconfigures a VM with a CPU or memory withing the approval threshold, the status says "Reconfigure.waitingforapproval"...
View ArticleTenant Admins can see machines in other Tenants in 6.2
Scenario: multi-tenant env. Tenant Admins can go to Administration -> Tenant Machines -> Reclamation. They can then select a machine that was provisioned in another tenant and select Reclaim...
View ArticleDefault tenant or not
Hi All, Just wondering how many of you use the default vsphere.local tenant? I've seen a few people create a new tenant for a new install and just use the vsphere.local tenant for global settings etc....
View ArticleLeap Second
Not sure if any of you read about leap second, when they add an extra second on June 30th.SuSE linux is effected, which means vcac/id/postgres appliance can be effected. You may want to double check...
View ArticleCannot install an Eval key to vRA 6.2.1 Appliance
I've been running a vRA 6.2 instance using a vCloud Suite Standard key that has no expiration, for the past month or so. I was recently given an evaluation key for vRealize Automation Advanced, but it...
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