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vCO – Many new workflows in Release 4.2.1

If you are using and older version of vCO you probably have not noticed that VMware has put a lot of work into new workflows. In my eyes VMware has learned their lesson. In vSphere 4 and vSphere 4.1 VMware had not released any workflows for their premium functions like Distributed Virtual Switches and HostContinue reading “vCO – Many new workflows in Release 4.2.1”

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vCO – Create Distributed Virtual Port Group

Here is the code for creating a distributed virtual port group. Input is of type VC:VmwareDistributedVirtualSwitch

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vCO – Create Distributed Virtual Switch (DVS)

Here is the code for creating a distributed virtual switch. Input is sdkConnection. The code assumes you have only the root network folder.

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vCO – Send email attachment

There are maybe times when you want to send an email attachment. A csv file for example. It is actually quit easy to achieve. Just create a duplicate of the existing workflow “Send notification” and add a few lines. Add following lines: attachmentName is an input parameter of the type string with the file nameContinue reading “vCO – Send email attachment”

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vCO getting started – Videos from VMwareTV

VMware has published some demo videos on how to develop vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) workflows. The first time I ever worked with vCO before I actually were clueless on what to do with it. In case you feel the same way right now these three youtube videos might give you a good start. Developing Your FirstContinue reading “vCO getting started – Videos from VMwareTV”

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vCO – Another way of getting Distributed Virtual Switches

Well this is my very first blog ever. Actually this is a reply to a blog on the mighty virtualization blog from Christian Johannsen on http://mighty-virtualization.blogspot.com/2011/01/vco-get-all-distributed-virtual.html Blogspot for some reason did not let me post this code as a reply but I thought I do not want to leave my talent wasted (cough!) and post it asContinue reading “vCO – Another way of getting Distributed Virtual Switches”