The purpose of having this workflow is to allow the user to backup or archive the virtual machine by themselves. In my example, I use TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager) as the backup/archive solution. This is a really simple workflow. The key step is to run TSM Virtual Machine backup from command line then send the … Continue reading vCO: Virtual Machine Backup/Archive Workflow
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vCO: Server Provisioning Workflow
I have created the server provisioning workflow in vCO and used it to create couple Windows 2008 servers, really nice and neat! What it does is to Clone a template –> Sysprep it –> Configure it (IP address, hostname, admin password, join domain ….) –> Send an Email to notify the requester when the server … Continue reading vCO: Server Provisioning Workflow
SQL Server2008 R2 Evaluation period expired!
We ran into the problem this morning - an error Window poped up saying the evaluation period has expired when I launched the SQL Server Management Studio. Don't know why this is happening, as we did use a licensed media to install. The product ID is embeded in the media and no need to manually … Continue reading SQL Server2008 R2 Evaluation period expired!
Good bye Google Reader, Hello Feedly!
Google announced Today that they will shut down Google Reader on July 1st. As a Google Reader user, I have found a new tool to replace it. Feedly is a cloud based RSS application which works on smartphones, tablet and multiple browsers, and also supports seamless transition from Google Reader. More info about Feely: http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/
ESXi PowerCLI Enable ssh service
1) Enable SSH service on all ESXi hosts.Get-VMHost | Foreach { Start-VMHostService -HostService ($_ | Get-VMHostService | Where { $_.Key -eq “TSM-SSH”} ) }2) Enable SSH service on a single host.Start-VMHostService -HostService (Get-VMHostService -VMHost ESXi-01.my.lab | where {$_.Key -eq "TSM-SSH"})
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