VMware vSphere Virtual Machine Management

Manage your VMware vSphere from inside Hornbill

Package Details

• Vendor: VMWare
• Target Platform: Windows Universal
• Package Type: Server and Workstation Management

Why use this

Comprehensive control over virtual machines in your vSphere environment

Integration between Hornbill and vSphere enables simple control of VM administration—either by IT ops people or automated business processes/runbooks.

Example: Hornbill can automatically increase the number of virtual CPUs powering a virtual machine. If VM system monitoring shows that processor capacity is about to breach on a virtual machine, Hornbill can automatically increase capacity to ensure continuity of service during busy periods. No downtime. No incidents. Smooth experience for customers.

Benefits

• Automate provisioning/deprovisioning of virtual machines
• Enable instant digital delivery of VMs to developers
• Reduce IT ops workloads and service desk calls

How to get it

• You can try out ITOM for free (not for production use, limited runs) by installing the ITOM application from the Hornbill App Store.
• If you would like to explore ITOM and consider subscribing, please contact your account manager here.

Requirements

• Install the Hornbill Site Integration Server inside your firewall (if you don’t already have it).
• The VMware.PowerCLI PowerShell module needs to exist on the machine that will be executing the scripts;
• Target machine for script execution should be running PowerShell 5.1
• If the script execution policy on the machine executing these operations is set to Restricted, then this will need to be updated to RemoteSigned. See the Microsoft website for more information.

Authentication

When creating jobs for operations contained within this package, they need to be run on the target machine as a user who has the correct privileges within your environment. To create and securely store keys:

• In the Configuration area of your Hornbill instance, navigate to Platform Configuration > Security > KeySafe;
• Click on the + Create New Key button, then select Username + Password;
• Give the KeySafe Key a Title (this is the name/identifier for the Active Directory account as you will see it when creating an IT Automation Job, or adding an IT Automation node to a Workflow);
• Optionally add a Description;
• Populate the Username field with the domain username for the account being used, for example: DOMAINNAME\yourusername;
• Populate the Password field with the password for the above account;
• Select Create Key to save.

Extra Credentials

Operations in this package require extra credentials to be sent, as well as the credentials for the user running the operation (as above). To create and securely store keys to run the operations:

• In the Configuration area of your Hornbill instance, navigate to Platform Configuration > Security > KeySafe;
• Click on the + Create New Key button, then select API Key;
• Give the KeySafe Key a Title (this is the name/identifier for the VMware vSphere account as you will see it when creating an IT Automation Job, or adding an IT Automation node to a Workflow);
• Optionally add a Description;
• Populate the Username field with a VMware vSphere account that has the correct privileges to run the operations;
• Populate the Password field with the password for the abover account;
• Populate the API Endpoint field with the hostname of your VMware host that you wish to target, for example: your.vmware.host.com;
• Select Create Key to save.

Once you have created your KeySafe Keys, you can then use them to populate the Credentials > Admin or Run As and Extra Credentials inputs when creating IT Automation Jobs from this package.

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See also

• Hyper-V