When upgrading to vSphere 7 or any other version, you might choose to create a brand new vCenter instead of migrating the old one. But what about folder structure, tags, distributed switches and so on.
Here I will demonstrate how you can easily migrate your tags from one vCenter to another using VMware PowerCLI.
Continue reading Migrate Tags from one vCenter to anotherI ran into a problem with VMware vSphere 6.5 Auto Deploy suddenly stopped working.
When trying to change rules with New-DeployRule or Repair-DeployImageCache I got the following error:
Repair-DeployImageCache System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Parse Error, no assembly associated with Xml key ImagefactoryPkgImageProfile at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessGetType(String value, String xmlKey, String& assemblyString) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessType(ParseRecord pr, ParseRecord objectPr) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessAttributes(ParseRecord pr, ParseRecord objectPr) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.StartChildren() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.ParseXml() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.Run() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.ObjectReader.Deserialize(HeaderHandler handler, ISerParser serParser) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream, HeaderHandler handler) at VMware.DeployAutomation.Types.PxeProfile.get_ImageProfile() System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Parse Error, no assembly associated with Xml key ImagefactoryPkgImageProfile at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessGetType(String value, String xmlKey, String& assemblyString) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessType(ParseRecord pr, ParseRecord objectPr) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessAttributes(ParseRecord pr, ParseRecord objectPr) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.StartChildren() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.ParseXml() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.Run() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.ObjectReader.Deserialize(HeaderHandler handler, ISerParser serParser) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream, HeaderHandler handler) at VMware.DeployAutomation.Types.PxeProfile.get_ImageProfile() System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Parse Error, no assembly associated with Xml key ImagefactoryPkgImageProfile at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessGetType(String value, String xmlKey, String& assemblyString) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessType(ParseRecord pr, ParseRecord objectPr) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessAttributes(ParseRecord pr, ParseRecord objectPr) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.StartChildren() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.ParseXml() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.Run() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.ObjectReader.Deserialize(HeaderHandler handler, ISerParser serParser) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream, HeaderHandler handler) at VMware.DeployAutomation.Types.PxeProfile.get_ImageProfile() System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: Parse Error, no assembly associated with Xml key ImagefactoryPkgImageProfile at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessGetType(String value, String xmlKey, String& assemblyString) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessType(ParseRecord pr, ParseRecord objectPr) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.ProcessAttributes(ParseRecord pr, ParseRecord objectPr) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapHandler.StartChildren() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.ParseXml() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapParser.Run() at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.ObjectReader.Deserialize(HeaderHandler handler, ISerParser serParser) at System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap.SoapFormatter.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream, HeaderHandler handler) at VMware.DeployAutomation.Types.PxeProfile.get_ImageProfile()
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Today we will look at how to enable REST on phpIPAM. This is an essential part when integrating with vRealize Orchestrator, since REST is an excellent interface for automation.
REST might scare you at first, but don’t loose faith, you will soon enough begin to like it, when you vRealize the power it brings.
