vCloud Automation Center

vRealize (vCAC) and vCenter Orchestrator workflow to change the machine name before building the machine

This workflow allows you to change the machine name for a vRealize Automation Virtual Machine during the build process. It is based on the articles series on the VMware Blog created by Ted Sprinks. (link) That series of three articles is very good, but it might be a bit lengthy if you just need this one single workflow.

Advanced Service Designer Change My Password Form

In vRealize Automation (formerly know as vCloud Automation Center - vCAC) you can create custom services with forms that allow users to request and work with any type of service. VMware calls this XAAS - Anything as a Service. On request I have created this form that allows a user to change his/her password in Active Directory. The form sets the current logged in user as the user to change the password for and it verifies if the user enters two identical passwords.

vCAC and vCenter Orchestrator workflow to move Virtual Machines to a Resource Pool

This article describes how to create a workflow in vCenter Orchestrator that, when executed from vCAC, moves a provisioned Virtual Machine to a specified Resource Pool. If the Resource Pool does not exist it will be created.

Requirements:

- vCAC Plugin installed in vCO and configured (documentation and download for plugins)

Import existing virtual machines in vCloud Automation Center

Virtual machines from an existing vSphere environment can be imported into vCloud Automation Center to manage them from there. You perform this action as an Infrastructure Administrator with a tool named Infrastructure Organizer that you will find under the Infrastructure tab in your vCAC administration portal.

vCloud Automation Center Import virtual machines

Modify the Session Time Out for vCloud Automation Center 6.x

The default timeout value for the vCAC web console is 30 minutes. You might find this not long enough or too long, whatever your reasons are, if you want to change it you can.

Access the vCAC Appliance through SSH (with Putty for example) or access the virtual appliance console directly to modify this file:

for 6.0  /usr/lib/vcac/server/webapps/shell-ui-app/WEB-INF/web.xml

for 6.2  /usr/lib/vcac/server/webapps/vcac/WEB-INF/web.xml