Ever wanted to limit the number of VMs being requested via the Self Service portal per request. I had a customer who wanted to do this recently, their use case was to prevent user input mistakes when requesting services. The default value in vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 5.x is 999. Just to be clear this is not …

Recently I had some fun and games with what should have been a pretty routine process of upgrading a customer’s vCenter 4.1 Server to vCenter 5.0 Update 1, as it turned out it was far from straightforward. The main background to my issue was that when performing the upgrade of the database, the progress bar did not …

To help manage your vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) implementation and the resources on which it depends, vCAC by default places limits on the number of concurrent instances of two particularly resource-intensive operations, machine provisioning and data collection. During a recent vCloud Suite implementation this …

Enabling PowerShell Functions with SRM - DR of the Cloud When calling PowerShell functions as part of a Site Recovery Manager (SRM) v5.1 recovery plan, you need to perform some additional configurations within PowerShell. This can be achieved using the following procedures. Step 1 - Set the execution level Launch the …