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Holodeck 9.0.2 Notes
Holodeck 9.0.2 Deployment Notes – Single-Host R740 Lab (VCF 9.0.2) Author: Brian | Date: March 2026 | Hardware: Dell PowerEdge R740 (2x Xeon Gold 6242, 336 GB RAM, 4tb NVMe on PCIe card) This guide documents the exact steps and workarounds I used to deploy a nested VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0.2 lab using Holodeck 9.0.2…
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VMware vRealize/Aria Orchestrator vCenter Plugin advanced configuration values
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Commands to watch the Code Stream 8 Logs
Commands to tail the Code Stream logs: Run “kubectl -n prelude logs -lapp=codestream” Run “kubectl -n prelude get pods | grep code” Copy the unique name of the pod. Ex: ‘codestream-app-dfcf468cd-l6djt’ Run “kubectl -n prelude logs <unique pod name> -f “
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How to search Active Directory using vRealize Orchestrator
Variable adHost is set to the AD:adHost you want to search Or use “Server.findAllForType(“AD:AdHost”)” and use a loop to search each domain. Search for Computer Name vmName = “NST-CORE-01”; adComputers = ActiveDirectory.search(“ComputerAD”,vmName,adHost); System.log(adComputers.length); Search for Organizational Unit ouName = “Finance”; adOUs = ActiveDirectory.search(“Organizational Unit”, ouName, adHost); System.log(adOUs.length); Search for User user = “bmacinnes”; adUsers =…
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Find vc:virtualmachine by uuid
vCenterVm = sdkConnection.searchIndex.findByUuid(null, vmuuid, true, true);
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OVFTOOL Examples
cd “C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool” List all VM on ESXi server 192.168.1.250 ovftool “vi://192.168.1.250” Export a VM called NST-VRA-01 to a thin-provisioned ovf with the same name on Y: ovftool -dm=thin “vi://192.168.1.250/NST-VRA-01” y:\NST-VRA-01 IMPORTANT, unmount any ISOs from the VM. If you don’t unmount them they will get exported as part of the OVF Export…