vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 5.1: Installing Self-Service Portal
vCAC comes with a self-service portal outside the standard portal. The self-service portal is included with the vCAC-51-Extensibiliy installation files. Th
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vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 5.1: Automated Installation Of Windows Guest Agent
In this article I''m gong to walk through automating the installation of the Windows Guest Agent. There are advantages to automating the guest agent instal
vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 5.1: Executing Scripts with the Windows Guest Agent
There are a few components to executing scripts in a Windows Guest OS which Iām going to cover in this post. Those items are: Windows Guest Agent Custom Pr
vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 5.1: Creating Custom Drop Down Menu''s
To create a custom drop down menu that can be presented to users at request time we will be leveraging the Property Dictionary. The Property Dictionary giv
vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 5.1: Using Custom Properties
In this example we are going to configure a few different types of custom properties. The properties we are going to configure are: VMware.VirtualCenter.Fo
vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 5.1: Custom Properties Demystified
vCAC uses custom properties in many different ways. They can be very useful if properly understood. To start with there are two high level classificati
vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 5.1: Executing Scripts with the Linux Guest Agent
I''ve been getting asked a lot of question on how to execute scripts within Linux Guest Systems using vCAC. There are a few components to executing scripts
VMware SDK and Visual Studio 2008
I went to install the VMware SDK for vSphere 4.0 on to my desktop running Windows 7 64-bit, Visual Studio 2008, and .Net 3.5 SP1 and discovered the SDK set
Keep it simple stupid: registering unregistered vm's
Last week my boss came to me and asked if I could write a script for a customer to register VM''s after being replicated from once VI environment to anothe
Changes to the ESX Service Console and ESX vs. ESXi...again
A whitpaper was posted in the VMTN communities Thursday outlining the differences between the ESX 3.x and ESX 4.x service console. It further offers resour
ESX automated deployment email completion notification
How would you like to kick off your ESX installation, then go have some coffee, go for a jog, or just hang out by the water cooler until it is finished wit
Network configuration for automated ESX deployment
I have been asked this question a few times so I thought it would be wise to post an article on it. When deploying an automated build script with the kicks