Mayank Goyal
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Multi-NIC VMs with static IPs in VCF Automation
Build VCF Automation VMs with up to three optional NICs, each static or DHCP, any number of data disks with their own sizes, and…
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Free utilities for Orchestrator and VCF Automation developers.
Search the Orchestrator scripting API: classes, methods and plug-in objects for 8.x and 9.x.
An MCP server that lets your AI assistant build, run and debug Orchestrator workflows.
Open a .package file in the browser and browse its workflows, actions and elements.
Paste a curl command and get the equivalent Orchestrator JavaScript.
A Chrome extension that gives the Orchestrator script editor room to breathe.
Generate clean documentation for your Orchestrator actions.
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This namespace is not active: Could be a Proxy Issue in VCF 9.0.2
In an air-gapped VCF 9.0.2 setup, a vCenter proxy let the Kubernetes Service Content Library download images but left the All Apps namespace inactive in VCF…
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Solving Scheduled Workflow Failures from Service Broker: Using an API to Bypass Execution Token Timeouts
Scheduled Orchestrator workflows requested from Service Broker can fail hours later because the user’s execution token has expired. A PATCH call to /vco/api/tasks/credentials makes an admin…
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VCF 9.1 Improvements – VCF Automation and VKS
The VCF 9.1 changes that caught my eye in VCF Automation and VKS, mostly for All Apps: VM Fast Deploy, day-2 network changes, non-disruptive VM import,…
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VCF Operations Orchestrator 9.0.2: List of PowerShell and PowerCLI Modules
The full list of PowerShell 7.4 and PowerCLI modules, with versions, that ship in the VCF Operations Orchestrator 9.0.2 runtimes, plus the short PowerShell action I…
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VCF Automation 9 Sizing Matrix
A quick reference table of VCF Automation 9 deployment sizes and what each one needs: Small with one node, Medium and Large with three nodes, and…
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Visualizing Graphs in Orchestrator with Python, Matplotlib and ByteBuffer
Turn vRO into a graphing engine: a Python action uses pyVmomi to collect host CPU and memory usage, Matplotlib renders a bar chart, and a JavaScript…
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ModernvROAPI.in – The Successor to vroapi.com
modernvroapi.in is a new home for VCF Operations Orchestrator plugin API documentation, replacing the unmaintained vroapi.com. It offers full-site search, light and dark themes, one-click TypeScript…
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Cloud Templates: Types of Resource Connections
Solid arrows, dashed arrows and solid lines on the VMware Aria Automation Assembler canvas mean different things. See how explicit dependsOn ordering, implicit property bindings and…
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