This article was written by Duncan Epping over at Yellow-Bricks.com. I have posted here purely for my own ability to find this setting in the future. I needed it today while building vShield Manager VM across a WAN Link. Every time I tried to type the username admin it entered it as aaadddmmmiiinnn obviously very frustrating. This is how you fix it. Power off the VM Edit Settings Click the Options Tab Click “General” Click “Configuration Parameters” Click “Add Row” Enter the name: keyboard.typematicMinDelay Enter the value: 2000000
VMware vCloud Director documentation links
Although I posted this back in July, I regularly get asked about the location of the official VMware vCloud Director documentation, so thought I would post it again, with a couple of direct links to version 1.5 documentation. All the available documents can be found at this link: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcd_pubs.html vCD 1.5 installation guide click here vCD 1.5 Administration guide click here vCD 1.5 Users Guide click here
Extra Cyber Monday deal from Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman
Straight from Duncan Epping’s blog site: As multiple people asked for it, Frank and I decided to also put the 4.1 HA/DRS Deepdive on sale. Just wanted to inform you guys about it. Here are the links: vSphere 4.1 HA/DRS Deepdive – £4.59 Once again, please note that Amazon might charge extra if you are ordering/downloading the book from remote. We cannot control that unfortunately. Never the less, this is the bargain of the year for sure when it comes to VMware books. No book out their with such an insane price/page/quality ratio!
Looking up Managed Object Reference (MoRef) in vCenter Server
I have been playing around today looking up the MoRef’s within vCenter to match up with the ones being shown within the vCloud Director logs. The kb article below shows how to look up the MoRef’s in vCenter. This is a really handy way of finding out which VM is referred to from another product. The easiest way to lookup the MoRef is to open your browser and point to: https://[FQDN_vCenter]/mob/ Extract from the KB article: This article provides information about looking up a Managed Object Reference (MoRef) in vCenter Server. This helps you determine which virtual machine, host, or datastore a product is referring to in its log bundle. For example, a virtual machine is denoted by vm-xxxx in the VMware Site Recovery Manager logs or the vpxa logs on an ESX host. KB article :: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1017126
PowerCLI for vCloud Director – Have your say !
PowerCLI for vCloud Director–Have your say ! VMware have recently announced a survey on the PowerCLI site, this has been setup to poll people for what they think would be the best way to introduce cmdlets for vCloud Director, personally I think it’s a great move and proves that VMware really does listen to their customers opinions. Their questions not only ask how you would like the vCloud cmdlets distributed but also if you would prefer common objects like VMs and Users to be new cmdlets based towards vCloud director or to add these as additional parameters to the existing cmdlets. Personally when answering these questions I have to remind myself of a few things and ask myself a few questions: vCloud Org users or tenants are going to be interested in different things than a vSphere admin, for example, does a tenant care about the details of the datastore […]