Category Archives: VMWare

vRO, Active Directory, converting SID and GUID

I am writing some automation to handle Active Directory objects, mostly managing ServiceConnectionPoints (SCP) and regular Group objects. If you want to retrieve multiple LDAP Attributes having the same name (like the keywords collection of an SCP), you will have a bad time when using ActiveDirectory.getEntry(), because it has no public Method documented to retrieve …

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Mapping VMware vCenter Disks to Linux SCSI Block Devices

VMware and SCSI There comes the time you want to automate stuff, or just need the information, which VMware vmdk Disk belongs to which OS Device inside the OS, depending on your architecture, you can be in quite a trouble, when picking the right VMware backing for your OS Devices. After some google-foo, you might …

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