Cool Tricks and Tools – Page 3 – Love I.T., Live I.T., Embrace I.T.

Automation, Cloud, Command Line Shortcuts, Cool Tricks and Tools, Powershell, Virtualization

A nice Slash and Burn script for vCD

August 22, 2014 No Comments

WARNING!!! This will delete ALL VMs in your vCD!!!!!

Connect to your vCD with “Connect-CIServer ” and run the following:


Stop-CIVApp * -Confirm:$false
Remove-CIVApp * -Confirm:$false
sleep 5
Remove-OrgNetwork * -Confirm:$false

Then manually delete any gateway devices and then run the following to clean up all the orgs:


Set-OrgVdc -Enabled:$false
remove-OrgVdc -Confirm:$false
Set-Org -Enabled:$false 
remove-Org -Confirm:$false

Big thanks to my colleague Grant Voss for this awesome little cleanup script.

Authentication, Automation, Cool Tricks and Tools, Database, Java

Sample Java Code to Test an SQL Connection

August 14, 2014 No Comments

Found this great piece of code from Microsoft Support site. It really works well to help troubleshoot possible connection vs environment issues. I cant get the line breaks to make it look pretty, so you can download the txt file HERE. Enjoy!

Cloud, Cool Tricks and Tools, Hacks, Virtualization

vCenter Orchestrator Configuration Password Recovery

August 11, 2014 No Comments

If you forgot/lost the password of vCO Configuration wizard, you can reset it using the following steps:

In vCO Server, navigate to C:\ProgramFiles\VMware\Orchestrator\configuration\jetty\etc\
Edit the file password.properties and paste the following line (this should be replacing the existing one):