Getting Started with vSphere Integrated Containers using vRealize Automation
Posted: December 21, 2016 Filed under: vRealize Automation | Tags: containers, vRA Leave a commentOverview
In this post how show how to set up vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) and integrate them into vRealize Automation (vRA). The vSphere Integrated Containers documentation can be found here. I’ll only reference the Install Guide in this post.
vSphere Integrated Container resources:
The following software versions were used:
- vSphere Integrated Containers 1.0 (or 0.8?)
- vRealize Automatin 7.2
- vCenter 6.0 U2 Build:3634794
- ESXi: 6.0 U2 Build: 3620759
PowerCLI script to monitor recent vSphere Tasks
Posted: December 6, 2016 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentI haven’t had much time to look at vSphere 6.5 yet, but appearently the C# client is no more. I used to always have the C# client up as a diagnostic tool so that I could watch events trigger in real time as opposed to having to refresh the vSphere web client. Normally I’d open the C# client in full screen and then arrange my browsers so that they would cover the C# client but leave room so I’d be able to see the recent tasks pane. This would allow me to work in another product like vRealize Automation and see events appear in vCenter immediately.
If I can’t use the C# client to do this going forward, I thought I’d create a little PowerCLI script to provide me with the same information. I’m not sure how well it will work out yet, but you can find it on GitHub.
The result look like this:
