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I'm seeing similar issues no matter what language or method we use to access tags in our 6.5 vCenter.  It's terribly slow via Powershell (10.1.0), Javascript from vRO, or even right in the web UI... See more...
I'm seeing similar issues no matter what language or method we use to access tags in our 6.5 vCenter.  It's terribly slow via Powershell (10.1.0), Javascript from vRO, or even right in the web UI.  I don't have these issues when I query a 5.5 vCenter.  Is anyone else experiencing this?
Hi nsajepi​, I'll mark your reply as the correct answer as it does help me on the direction I'm heading.  My follow up question though really wasn't well articulated in my original question which... See more...
Hi nsajepi​, I'll mark your reply as the correct answer as it does help me on the direction I'm heading.  My follow up question though really wasn't well articulated in my original question which is my fault.  I think I've since learned that what i'm exactly looking for isn't possible as of 7.3.  Thanks for the info though, what you explained worked as you said.
The attached just explains the basics of how to populate a drop down in vRA. My question was more about how to set default values when vRO Actions were populating the drop down.
Turns out I needed more patience I suppose.  Some events as of minutes ago are showing up so that field must not have been captured before installing that content pack.  Thanks for the walk throu... See more...
Turns out I needed more patience I suppose.  Some events as of minutes ago are showing up so that field must not have been captured before installing that content pack.  Thanks for the walk through on this one
Interesting find, I didn't even catch that
Note that there is a vRA 7 and 7.3 content pack, if that makes a difference
It's in the vRA 7.3 content pack > vRA - Catalog Requests > Completed Requests successful over time.  If you send it over to Interactive Analytics it shows that field is required for the query.
Can anyone speak to where this field comes from? "vmw_vra_cat_item_name" I've loaded up the vRA 7.3 content pack and some queries require it yet I've found no instance of it in my logs.  T... See more...
Can anyone speak to where this field comes from? "vmw_vra_cat_item_name" I've loaded up the vRA 7.3 content pack and some queries require it yet I've found no instance of it in my logs.  Thanks in advance
Hi darrenoid, I did throw together a quick test similar to what you explained and that only works when you provide a static list in the Property Definition.  That's a good option to know abou... See more...
Hi darrenoid, I did throw together a quick test similar to what you explained and that only works when you provide a static list in the Property Definition.  That's a good option to know about!  Seems that doesn't work when using a vRO action to populate it, at least not that I've seen yet. Unfortunately that's how we're using it today.
Correct, not in XaaS.  I would go that route if we could but the AWS blueprint doesn't expose all its properties so we haven't yet been able to put an XaaS wrapper around it.
Does anyone know of a way to set the default value in a dropdown in vRA 7?
RogerBad‌, you have to configure your action to return an array even if you're returning a single string.  Once that's configured, make sure the string(s) are enclosed in brackets like so: [strin... See more...
RogerBad‌, you have to configure your action to return an array even if you're returning a single string.  Once that's configured, make sure the string(s) are enclosed in brackets like so: [string] or ["one","two","three"]
All, I'm running into some concerns with our current layout of Reservations and Business Groups and want to know how others in IT are doing this.  Currently, our Business Groups are aligned with ... See more...
All, I'm running into some concerns with our current layout of Reservations and Business Groups and want to know how others in IT are doing this.  Currently, our Business Groups are aligned with teams in our organization.  Let's call that team Engineering for the sake of discussion. The "Engineering" Business Group would use the "Engineering" Reservation.  There are also a few other BG's and respective Reservations.  The big reason for this layout was that some teams need to only see some Services, whereas other teams only see one for example.  As I understand it, the only way to enforce that line of security is via Business Groups and what Services they're entitled to see and use. Is anyone using a separate model where you have one Reservation/Business Group per datacenter (or cluster)?  I like the idea of managing fewer Reservations, but the side effect is there would be one Business Group that all the teams would be a part of therefor limiting what I can do with security and with who sees what. Would love your thoughts on this, thanks!
Was this ever resolved?  Also having similar issues with 7.0.1, but wondering why an imported machine goes through the build phases as if it's a new VM in case anyone has the answer to that.
Souad90, I need the environment to be more dynamic so the option to manually blocking the powered off VMs (that may or may not remain powered off) via security rights in vCenter isn't an option i... See more...
Souad90, I need the environment to be more dynamic so the option to manually blocking the powered off VMs (that may or may not remain powered off) via security rights in vCenter isn't an option in my case.
Hello all, we're running a cluster that has powered off VMs for a PaaS related purpose and we don't want them impacting the analysis as waste.  If anyone has any tips on what part of the policy t... See more...
Hello all, we're running a cluster that has powered off VMs for a PaaS related purpose and we don't want them impacting the analysis as waste.  If anyone has any tips on what part of the policy to disable or modify to remove them as a factor please let me know.  Thanks!
Were you ever able to find a resolution to this?
Using vRA 6.2.0, we're seeing many errors (flooding the logs) regarding VMs that aren't on an enabled compute resource.  The VMs do live in the same vCenter as our compute resource clusters howev... See more...
Using vRA 6.2.0, we're seeing many errors (flooding the logs) regarding VMs that aren't on an enabled compute resource.  The VMs do live in the same vCenter as our compute resource clusters however.  I find this odd as I felt it should only report on VMs that are under its management or at least in enabled compute resources.  Is this normal behavior?  Regardless, is a valid workaround to disable rights to the service account in vCenter to hide those VMs from vRA all together?
That will help in the meantime, thanks!