Posts made in November, 2011

Installing some new Orchestrator 2012 RC servers, 2 of these started to exhibit a new error when attempting to access the Web Services URL. This of course has the knock on affect of rendering the Operator Console useless, as it relies on web services. Digging deeper, while I try to open the Web Service URL, the message returned is “Request Error”, with the string “The server encountered an error processing the request”; Illustrated in the Image below. The resolution for this is actually pretty simple, for some bazar reason the application pool which the installer associated with the web site is the “DefaultAppPool” rather than the newly created “System Center 2012 Orchestrator Web Features” which is designed for the job. The fix, just launch...

This course focuses on how using System Centre Virtual Machine Manger 2012 can help your business build, deploy, and maintain a private cloud. After completing these three modules you will have learnt about the Virtual Machine Manger 2012 product, and the features it utilizes to build and support the virtualized and physical resources that are part of your private cloud infrastructure. The course will also expose you to cloud computing at the business level, from the perspective of Virtual Machine Manger 2012, and show how to extend that knowledge to the technical level. The last module will show you how to manage applications within your private cloud using Virtual Machine Manger 2012 to deploy, update, and manage them. At the end, we will have illustrated how...

Its been a little while since we last looked at the process of migrating from SCVMM 2008R2 to the new 2012 environment. The last visit we introduced a simple function to determine which of our 2008R2 Clouds (User Roles) are still active, and thus we need to migrate over to 2012. SCVMM 2008 R2 In this post we will use this function, so be sure to have it loaded into your PowerShell session; the first thing we will do is create a sorted unique list of the clouds we will process. # Using the function we introduced Get-SCVMRolesInUse | select name | Export-Csv RolesToBeMigrated.csv $RolesToExport = Import-Csv .RolesToBeMigrated.csv $RolestoExport = $RolesToExport | sort name -Unique That was pretty simple, now our variable $RolestoExport has a list of all the User...

The latest build of the F5 IP is now up on Codeplex. This build has even more objects presented, and I have leveraged the excellent experience from Ryan (Thank You) to create the images library, so that we can get some Icons exposed to Orchestrator for each of the runbook objects. This build now supports both pools and virtual servers, with the ability to now add and remove members, assuming your connection to the F5 has the required permissions. In addition I have added code to detect if the connected Balancer is part of a cluster, and if you are connected to the standby node, then will disconnect you insisting that you work from the active node, otherwise there is no point in adding, removing or changing nodes! Grab the pack and give it whirl, but test before...