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How to troubleshoot Vizio M65-C1 Power Issues
My 3 year old Vizio M65 would not power on. No standby light or any indication that I was pressing the power button. After trying the obvious solutions like making sure the wall plug had power I started advanced troubleshooting. I took the back of the TV off and checked the fuse. You can’t tell […]
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Create Cafe Literals for Day 2 Actions
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Get vRA request by ID
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Find CAFE VM
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Favorite Music
Be sure to use ‘Shuffle Play’
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Using vRO to read vRA Business Group Properties
It can be useful to create Properties at the Business Group level in vRA. One possible use case is to act as flags for decisions made by vRO. I will show an example of this and a hypothetical use case.
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Easily find a VCAC:Virtualmachine object by VM name
vmArray = Server.findAllForType(“vCAC:VirtualMachine”, “VirtualMachineName eq ‘” + hostName + “‘”);
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Useful vRO JavaScript code Snippets
Using a vc:virtualmachine object, retrieve ESXi host and vCenter Cluster objects. Most of the other attributes are easy to find in the API explorer, but these two are ‘hidden’ in the ‘runtime’ attribute.
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Change the Archive Days in CAFE
“archive_days” is the amount of days a vRA resource will be held in vRA after having the lease expire. By default, a VM that is deployed or imported inherits the archive days from the blueprint. Even if the blueprint is modified, the existing VM will hold the original amount of days to hold the vRA […]
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Delete an Entitlement
At the time of this writing, there is no built in vRO method to delete an entitlement. I wrote this action to meet that need for a customized approval and governance process