Year: 2015

Yes, I know. I should have wrote it down but who’s got the time right? 🙂 Anyway, I locked myself off and I cannot open the vRealize Orchestrator configuration page. Here is a quick procedure that will recover vRealize Orchestrator password. Please note that this procedure is intended to recover the vRealize Orchestrator password on the appliance version. Recover vRealize Orchestrator password Open the vRO appliance and log in with the root user. Go to: […]

The next vBeers / NetBeers in Eindhoven is coming up, so mark your calendar for this vBeers on Friday, the 20th of November 2015. It will be an informal event, just to network with other people in the virtualisation industry, have some drinks (and food if you want), share knowledge and just to have some fun! We would like to point out that this meeting really isn’t only for vExpert’s or highly certified VMware-nerds but for everyone […]

The vRealize Orchestrator also known as vCenter Orchestrator in the past has been around for quite some time now. I haven’t really cover the topic of automation on my blog, beside the vCloud Suite proof of concept blog series that touched the subject briefly, so I think it is time to have a closer look on how to install and configure vRealize Orchestrator within a vSphere environment. But first, let’s have a look at VMware’s […]

Just a quick post about the vSphere Web Client keyboard shortcuts available in the vSphere Web Client 6. It’s a useful feature that I use a lot when I work with multiple vCenter Servers and I need to switch quickly between the items in the vCenter Server Inventory. vSphere Web Client Keyboard Shortcuts Ctrl+Alt+S – Navigates to the Search field control Ctrl+Alt+H – Displays global help Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H – Displays context-sensitive help Ctrl+Alt+1 – Navigates to […]

Some time ago I posted a quick product review on the Devolutions Remote Desktop Manager and it looks like guys at Devolutions have been working hard last months as on March 11th, 2015 Devolutions launched the Devolutions Could. So, let’s have a quick look! What is Devolutions Cloud? Devolutions Cloud is the central location for all of Devolutions Online services. It is comprised of multiple services as summarized below. The commonality between all of these […]

Some time ago a new fling by VMware Labs has been released to manage your ESXi hosts. The ESXi Embedded Host Client is written in HTML and JavaScript, and is served directly from your ESXi host which means it has to be installed on the ESXi host first. Since this fling is currently in its development phase the ESXi Embedded Host Client is not fully featured and only implements a hand full of the most […]