The agenda for this year’s UKVMUG at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham has just been published and what a line up the organisers have put together this year! It genuinely does seem to get even more impressive every time and I know for a fact that the organisers put an unbelievable amount of effort into making that so. I’m really pleased to see that this time round they have included all of the community sessions in the mezzanine area on the main agenda page.

While moving some vCO content over from one server to another via the process of creating a package on Server1, exporting the package and then importing the package into Server2, something went awry and I was no longer able to edit some of the workflows. Specifically, the workflows in question looked like this with the pencil edit button greyed out: A clue was given in the User permissions section with both Add to package and Edit contents unchecked:

While at VMworld Europe 2014 I noticed in some of the slides in a vCO session that the presenter was using some icons for workflows that did not appear to be standard. I was quite curious how to do this, but couldn’t find much information about it until I stumbled on the below training video. If you don’t want to watch the video, here’s how to do it. Get your images into vCO Supported:

Last day for me and first of all that meant leaving my accommodation. In my pre-VMworld post I mentioned that this time I was trialling staying in an apartment via AirBnB rather than a more traditional hotel. It turned out to be an excellent choice. I saved money, was in an excellent location and had a far more friendly experience than some of my previous stays in hotels around a busy conference, which can also be pretty soulless places sometimes when you’re travelling unaccompanied.

Day 3 saw the second General Session for conference attendees. I watched it from the comfort of the Bloggers Area given it was mostly a repeat of the recent VMworld US conference. If you missed either, you can catch up on it here. First session for me today I went along to the vCAC Discussion Group. Led by the vCAC Product Manager it was great to hear other people’s stories on how they have used the product in the real world.

Day 2 saw the first General Session for conference attendees. I watched it from the comfort of the Bloggers Area given it was mostly a repeat of the recent VMworld US conference. If you missed either, you can catch up on it here. One of the announcements I did catch was the HP and HDS are now shipping Evo Rail in addition to the previously announced vendors. So a pretty wide range of vendors to get them from now.

The Monday of VMworld Europe is all about the labs for me. Given it is Partner Day and typically quieter around the conference than the rest of the week, I spend as much time in the labs as possible. Even though they are available online I never seem to get round to taking them outside of the conference. I didn’t need to queue longer than 10 mins for any of the three labs I took which was pretty good.

First day for me at VMworld Europe 2014 in Barcelona and arrived in pretty decent time so headed over to the conference centre to get registered. It was pretty quiet and I doubt it will be like this the rest of the week. Even the transit bus was empty and I had a chauffeur drive ride across . Even still, managed to bump into a few guys from the community and it was good to put some faces to Twitter names already.

When validating a vCO workflow I received the following error message: Object referenced by this attribute using a configuration element is not found I’ve had similar issues before and the fix was to replace the Configuration Element being selected for the attribute. Unfortunately that was not the case this time. Instead I resolved it by removing the attribute, recreating it, then replacing it in the various places in the workflow it had been in use.

Dynamic Types in vCAC enable you to extend the vCAC Inventory to include types created in vCO. For example you might be working with an F5 system and wish to make a tangible object back in vCAC that a user can view the properties of and have Actions assigned to. Having created some Dynaimc Types in vCO for a project I was working on they were not appearing as available to add in vCAC Custom Resources - only the defaults were seen to be available.