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: Configure Static IP Address Support
vCAC has a feature that can be enabled to provide support for Static IP address assignments of provisioned workloads. This Static IP Address feature allows
vCloud Automation Center -vCAC 5.1: Conifiguring Multi-Machine Services
A Multi-Machine service is a Blueprint that is configured to deploy multiple blueprints/machines from one request. Essentially let''s say you have a bluepr
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
vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 5.1: Reservations Demystified
I have written a few articles that show you how to configure "Reservations" in vCAC. In this article I''m going to dig in to some details around "Reservati
vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 5.1: Connecting to vCenter
In my last post I covered how to connect vCAC to Amazon EC2 which I hope was useful for many it appears to have received a lot of attention. In this post I
vCloud Automation Center: vCAC 5.1: Amazon EC2 Configuration
Usually most people go straight for connecting vCAC to vCenter, but I have decided to connect to Amazon EC2 first. I''m doing this for a few reasons, but m