vCO comes with many useful workflows. ‘Find orphaned virtual machines’ is a good example. It is designed for preventing the VM sprawl by finding out the orphaned virtual machines. The workflow works fine without any customizations, but I prefer to make it simpler. So I made a copy of this workflow, and named it as … Continue reading vCO: Find out orphaned virtual machines workflow
Author: Jackie Chen
Kick off my AWS journey
Amazon has been promoting AWS (Amazon Web Services) since they officially entered Australian market in November last year. I attended their AWS Summit 2013 last week in Sydney. Again, I am convinced that Cloud is the future. As my usual learning habit, the first thing I always look at is the concept and architecture. For … Continue reading Kick off my AWS journey
Connect Lync in Pidgin
I finally made Lync work in Ubuntu. Here is the steps:1) Install the SIPE plugin - 'sudo apt-get install pidgin-sipe'.2) Run 'NSS_SSL_CBC_RANDOM_IiV=0 pidgin &'.3) Add the Lync account, then enable it.
Check FC HBA and Network Adapter firmware version in ESXi
There are two ways to check firmware version in ESXi: The first is to run the /usr/lib/vmware/vm-support/bin/swfw.sh then search the hardware you are looking for. The second to to list the device, then find the detailed info. For FC HBA: esxcfg-scsidevs –als /proc/scsi/qla2xxx/* | xargs head –2 For network adapters: esxcli network nic listethtool –I … Continue reading Check FC HBA and Network Adapter firmware version in ESXi
vCO: Server Decommission Workflow
Comparing to the server provisioning and VM archive, this workflow is a little bit more complicated. What it does is Checking the power status –> Shutdown VM if it is running –> Archive the VM –> Send requester the archive results –> Ask user to confirm whether to remove the VM –> Send the result … Continue reading vCO: Server Decommission Workflow
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