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Nov 27, 2007
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May 22, 2012 10:15 PM
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Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer
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Palo Alto
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*Disclaimer: VMware Employee - William Lam | http://www.virtuallyghetto.com | http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/automation | @lamw
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lamw replied to Custom sysprep answer file Server 2008R2

"gotcha. Yep one workaround would be for the custom script on the VM as part of the "post" that would call out to a well known system to upda"

in VMware vCloud Director - 10 replies
23 hours ago
lamw replied to Can I distribute vma with other software, is this legal or not?

"Hi,   Generally you should be able to contact your account team and they can get you in touch with the right folks. Let me reach out inter"

in vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) - 6 replies
1 day ago
lamw replied to Syslog collector and ESXi reload syslogd workaround

"Do you see this same error in your logs when the syslog stops sending - http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_"

in VMware ESXi™ 4 - 2 replies
1 day ago
lamw replied to Custom sysprep answer file Server 2008R2

"Just out of curiosity, why would a custom post script not work for you where the logic is added to figure out the OS and apply the correct k"

in VMware vCloud Director - 10 replies
1 day ago
lamw replied to Is it possible to retrieve status of System Board CMOS Battery?

"If you can get this information by directly logging into an ESXi host using the vSphere Client under the "Health" section, then yes you can"

in vSphere Web Services SDK - 3 replies
1 day ago
lamw replied to Can I distribute vma with other software, is this legal or not?

"You should reach out to your local VMware contact/account team for more details. I'm not sure if it's legal to re-distribute vMA. You may ne"

in vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) - 6 replies
1 day ago
lamw replied to Download a file from datastore

"Yes,   Take a look at the vifs utility which allows for file manage to your datastores - http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?to"

in vSphere SDK for Perl - 2 replies
1 day ago
lamw replied to Guest customization with cloneVM task: IP & default GW

"1) If you take a look at the documentation for CustomizationUnkonwnIpGenerator, it states that user will be prompted. If you don't want anyt"

in vSphere SDK for Perl - 3 replies
2 days ago
lamw replied to Options supported by CustomizationLinuxOptions

"As I mentioned, the functionality is the same as provided through the UI which for Linux systems do not support additional customization opt"

in vSphere SDK for Perl - 5 replies
2 days ago
lamw replied to Options supported by CustomizationLinuxOptions

"It is basically the hostname of the system and it's network and time configuration. You can see the options if you go through the vCenter Se"

in vSphere SDK for Perl - 5 replies
2 days ago
lamw replied to Import OVA via vSphere CLI?

"Hi,   Gave this question some more thought, you can find more details here - http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/05/how-to-deploy-ovfov"

in VMware ESXi 5 - 5 replies
2 days ago
lamw replied to Simple vcli script for extracting vm info including datastore and BU

"You can get most of this information without any additonal scripting using the vminfo.pl script which is included with the vCLI - http://w"

in vSphere Command-Line Interface - 2 replies
3 days ago
lamw replied to Linux guest customisation script deployment bug

"You don't need to be a corporate customer to file an SR, you just need to have SnS (Support & Subscription) with VMware.   Would you care"

in VMware vCloud Director - 4 replies
3 days ago
lamw replied to how to get custom values from vCenter

"Looks like threads created prior the upgrade of the forum software caused the links to be removed.   The script is here http://communit"

in vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) - 8 replies
5 days ago
lamw replied to Import OVA via vSphere CLI?

"No, you will need to use either vSphere Client or ovftool remotely."

in VMware ESXi 5 - 5 replies
5 days ago
lamw replied to Linux guest customisation script deployment bug

"Hi sengork,   How many characters is your customization script? It is noted in the documentation as well as the following KB article that"

in VMware vCloud Director - 4 replies
5 days ago
lamw replied to Auto login of users through API and then presenting Web page

"Have you taken a look at this blog post - http://blog.tsugliani.fr/featured/login-to-vcloud-director-1-5-with-a-generated-cookie/"

in VMware vCloud Director - 3 replies
5 days ago
lamw replied to API equivalent to "ovftool --prop key=value"?

"For #3, you can just call the PowerOnVM_Task(), if you want the VM to be powered on after a clone, then you'll set that power option in the"

in vSphere Web Services SDK - 4 replies
5 days ago
lamw replied to ESXi 4.0 u4 and the command prompt

"Hi,   With the transition from classic ESX to ESXi, VMware provides "remote" CLI's to access and manage your ESX(i) host as well as vCente"

in vSphere Command-Line Interface - 5 replies
5 days ago
lamw replied to Is there an API to support run esxcli in ESXi?

"Hi xiaoshitou46,   Yes, the vSphere API covers both ESX(i) hosts as well as vCenter Server. In the example of getting the version of the"

in vSphere Web Services SDK - 2 replies
5 days ago
lamw replied to Help with getting dvsport id from given vm

"Not sure I understand what you're trying to do, but if you have a large environment it could take a bit of time to lookup. You may want to t"

in vSphere SDK for Perl - 4 replies
1 week ago
lamw replied to API equivalent to "ovftool --prop key=value"?

"Hi,   The ovfEnv is dynamically generated during runtime of a VM while it's powered on it's specific values are not configurable as they a"

in vSphere Web Services SDK - 4 replies
1 week ago
lamw replied to Create a VM using StoragePlacementSpec

"To provision VMs whether creating a new or cloning from an existing onto a Datastore Cluster, you will need to leverage a different vSphere"

in vSphere SDK for Perl - 3 replies
1 week ago

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