I do a lot of work that involves either creating new virtual hard disks or attaching existing ones to virtual machines in VMware vSphere. I do all of this through vRealize Orchestrator, written in JavaScript (yum). As part of this task, I always ensure that the datastores that I am creating disks on have sufficient capacity for these new disks.

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When a vRO workflow or action is called from vRA, additional input parameters (in addition to those specified as the workflow/action inputs) are provided in the Execution Context object of the workflow. These can be very useful as they contain additional data that can be used inside the workflows. A couple of good examples would be the user that requested

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Before I start this post I want to put it into perspective. Up until now I have been working in infrastructure roles for a number of years, specialising in virtualization (mostly VMware), servers, storage and networking. A lot has changed recently and we can’t go a day without hearing or reading about “DevOps”. I don’t want to get into what DevOps is

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