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How to invoke System Center Orchestrator Runbooks from VConnect?

VConnect Operations Templates, Custom Operation and Orchestrator Runbooks

Cloud Assert VConnect integrates VMWare vCenter clusters and datacenters with Microsoft Windows Azure Pack.

VConnect provides many ways to extend functionality and customize. Combining those with external tools like Microsoft’s System Center Orchestrator brings lot of flexibility for the Administrators, System Integrators and Power Users. In the following sections, we will go through the steps to invoke an Orchestrator Runbook from VConnect Operations Templates.

Wednesday, September 30, 2015/Author: Ravi C Kolandaiswamy/Number of views (17904)/Comments (7)/ Article rating: 5.0

Categories: Windows Azure Pack Products VConnect

Tags: Private Cloud WAP Windows Azure Pack Enterprise Cloud System Center Katal VConnect WAP Extension VMWare

How to troubleshoot Windows Azure Pack and System Center Usage Pipeline?

Cloud Assert Usage and Billing pulls and aggregates data from Windows Azure Pack and System Center Usage data pipeline frequently in order to provide up-to-date metered resource / consumption based usage to end users.

This underlying usage pipeline has many moving parts and more often users are left with no usage data shown for System Center Virtual Machines. This post provides steps and tricks to troubleshoot and fix various components in the Windows Azure Pack, System Center and Operations Manager.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015/Author: Anonym/Number of views (16811)/Comments (8)/ Article rating: 4.8

Categories: Windows Azure Pack Usage and Billing

Tags: WAP Windows Azure Pack System Center Usage and Billing SCOM