I have recently published a draft tool to provide a table-formated diff of two vRealize Orchestrator packages.

Project is available on GitHub project and will evolve in futur to support more package item's types and to provide better information about differences.

Installation …

Ansible is a well known software to automates software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. In concrete terms, it's possible to manage infrastructure deployment and configuration during life cycle from sets of configuration files.

In the following post, I will try to explain how to use it …

In a previous post, I've already talk about an issue occuring in a lab environment with vCSA 6.5u0 and PSC appliance : VCSA or PSC appliance won't boot after hard shutdown.

As the issue became more regular with time, I tried to figure out the root cause of those events.

As system's logs reports SCSI timeout on write …

When you install a VMware vCloud Director instance, it comes with an embedded JRE (Java Runtime Environment). For example, vCloud Director includes JRE 1.8.0_121 :

1$VCLOUD_HOME/jre/bin/java -version
2java version "1.8.0_121"
3Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_121-b13)
4Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server …

VMware introduced in version 5.5 of vCloud Director, a feature to externaly expose catalogs and if necessary, to subscribe to an externaly exposed one.

This is useful to synchronize catalog between two (or more) vCloud Director instances.

Basic usage

The two following sections are extracts from the VMware documentation …

I started using the VMware Photon based appliances to deploy vCenter services (VCSA) and PSC with the 6.5 version several months ago.

It's really stable and I appreciate to use it daily and to replace the windows based services with the appliance ones. But a couple of days ago, I had a bad suprise in a lab environment …

SII Ouest VMware team has published a PowerCli Cheatsheet with most common commands of the VMware PowerShell SDK to manage vSphere environments.

The cheat sheet is open-sourced and published in the SII Group GitHub page.

Online html version is available in the following page : cheat-sheets/powercli

Printable PDF can be …

In order to fully configure a virtual machine after a clone of OVF deployment, it may be useful to use settings from virtualization layer in the guest OS: for example to run Guest OS customization as already discussed in this blog.

Today, we will focus on OVF properties.

Presentation of OVF properties

If you deploy …

In this article, we will see how to create, commit, revert-to virtual machine snapshots from ESXi command line. We will also talk about the very useful "linked clones" that are related to the snapshot feature.

Prerequisites

You only need to have a running VM on the ESXi and to know its Vmid:

1    $ vim-cmd …