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#vCAC 6.1 #ProTip: VM-level snapshots are entitled per-blueprint from the BP’s “Action” tab. #vmware pic.twitter.com/mXA7jvp2bE
— Jad El-Zein (@virtualjad) September 17, 2014
Snapshots are configured per-Blueprint in the Actions tab (this is not a typical Entitlement like most other actions).
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#vCAC 6.1 #ProTip: run “/home/darwin/tools/import_oob_content.sh” as “darwin_user” to install OOO content from #vCAS pic.twitter.com/jsJ1bZZ05f
— Jad El-Zein (@virtualjad) September 15, 2014
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#vCAC #ProTip: run Data Collection against a Compute Resource that has changed to make new objects available. #VMware pic.twitter.com/wuTiZ44r2o
— Jad El-Zein (@virtualjad) September 15, 2014
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#vCAC 6.1 #ProTip: Reclamations are now possible on all platforms! Use Adv Search to quickly locate VMs. #vmware pic.twitter.com/YStwdtAs7B
— Jad El-Zein (@virtualjad) September 15, 2014
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#vCAC #ProTip: For best AD performance, join SSO (IDVA) to AD for native queries. Then use Default Tenant and multi Business Groups.
— Jad El-Zein (@virtualjad) September 15, 2014
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#vCAC 6.1 #ProTip: use the new Bulk Import tool to rapidly import existing VMs to #IaaS management euphoria. #vmware pic.twitter.com/sSxMADJ7uV
— Jad El-Zein (@virtualjad) September 15, 2014
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Update 04/22/15: After further investigation around the effectiveness of these optimization tips on a vRA 6.2.1 environment, I am convinced that several of the tweaks do in fact provide some level of perceived IaaS UI performance improvements. I’m very interested in hearing your feedback on these findings (i.e. give it a try and let me know!).
Update 12/10/14: I have been advised that the optimization tweaks highlighted in this article will not provide any added benefits to vCAC/vRA 6.1 or 6.2. This is due to the way the IaaS interface is now presented back to the user (via the vCAC appliance vs. directly to the user session). The good news is VMware dev’s are hard at work at baking optimization right into the products, starting with a significant boost in the recently released vRA 6.2.
VMware’s vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) can transform how an enterprise delivers IT. It’s out-of-the-box functionality will help IT deliver Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) along with X-as-a-Service (XaaS / Everything-a-a-S) in a matter of clicks. Once extended into the datacenter’s ecosystem with vCAC’s extensibility engine, it will help integrate, orchestrate, and automate native and 3rd-party tools, services, and infrastructure, thrusting the enterprise into a new level of self-serviced IT efficiency.…
VMware vCloud Automation Center uses Active Directory service accounts to run several internal services and processes. In many environments it is required to reset the passwords for these service accounts at various intervals. As you can imagine, resetting the password for a given service account will cause the associated services to stop functioning until they are updated with the new password. A customer recently pointed out that there is no official documentation that provides guidance for updating the services used by vCAC to prevent a service outage. So, naturally, I figured I’d put this out there until such documentation is provided…
Before proceeding, determine exactly which service accounts are mapped to which services to prevent a misconfiguration. Follow these steps after changing the service account password and during a maintenance window…. …