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vRO Get VM Object By Name

When working on VM’s deployed by vRA, vRO needs to operate on a VM object. This scriptable task will find a VM object by searching the vCenter inventories by the input VM name. The result will be a single VM object. The task will fail if anything other than a single powered on VM is… Read More »

vRA 8 Dump VM Properties

Create a workflow using this and call it during Machine Provisioned Post in vRA 8.x to dump all the properties of the VM being deployed. Can be helpful troubleshooting builds.

MIA for a LONG time!

I just found a backup of this site on a backup disk I thought I had lost! With the backup found, I recovered the site and brought it back to life. I plan on posting regularly again. A lot has changed in the 2 years since my last post… Stay tuned!

MacBook Pro 8,3 Linux Frustration

At my job one of the awesome perks (among MANY) is that I get a brand spanking new MacBook Pro. The machine is a maxed out 15″ with 2.2 GHz Core i7, 16 GB RAM, upgraded matte display and and amazing 512 GB SSD hard drive! The 1st thing I did when I got it… Read More »

My new blog

Welcome to my new blog. I had a blog a while back but didn’t keep up with it… I am hoping to use this as a location for my notes on Linux, VMWare, Storage, etc. Hopefully I can use this to record things that will be useful to other people on the net.