Setup the vRealize Automation prerequisites for IaaS
When you’re setting up your vRealize Automation environment, you start of easy with the vRealize Automation appliance. After this you’re probably thinking it will be ‘a peace of cake‘, ‘a walk in the park‘ or any other metafor that’s harder to remember than the vRA appliance setup procedure.
But unfortunately this festive mood is short lived. Next up is the installation and configuration of the vRealize Automation IaaS server. This starts easy by requesting some simple input variables such as usernames, database servers, default tenants, certificates, etc. but than you hit the Installation Prerequisite Checker.
The challenge is to setup all the vRealize Automation prerequisites and end up with all green checkboxes. To achieve this you need to install the correct Microsoft IIS and .NET components, the correct Java version, setup the firewall, configure the Microsoft Transaction Coordinator, set the correct user right in MS IIS, configure System variables, etc. All in all, a long and frustrating procedure downloading the correct versions, adding the correct Windows components rebooting the server multiple times, etc, etc.
Luckily Brian Graf created a great PowerCLI script which does this all for you. You just need a (virtual) server, Brian’s script an dan Internet connection (which I didn’t have in my last POC environment, forcing me to do the manual setup again :-( ).
This PowerCLI script currently works with Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012 R2.
You can download the latest version of the vCAC 6.2 Prerequisites PowerCLI script on GitHub.
Other articles in the series vRealize Automation:
- Infoblox & vRealize Automation, Setup IPAM endpoint
- Infoblox & vRealize Automation, Install Infoblox IPAM plugin
- Setup provisioning of vCloud Air workloads
- Setup a vCloud Air Endpoint in vRealize Automation
- Setup Postgres database high availability for vRealize Automation
- Setup vRealize Automation Cost profiles & currency
- Speed up vRealize Automation life cycle updates
- Configure vRealize Automation not to delete virtual machines
- Track infrastructure changes with vRealize Automation Data Collection
- MS SQL high availability support for vRealize Automation
- Setup the vRealize Automation prerequisites for IaaS
- vRealize Automation: How to …
- Downgrade the vRealize Automation license
- vRealize Automation 7 – New Architecture & Installation
- vRealize Automation 7 – Improved Authentication
- vRealize Automation 7 – Converged Blueprints
- vRealize Automation 7 – LifeCycle Extensibility
- How to transfer vRealize Automation payload to Orchestrator
- Automation is not difficult with vRealize Automation 7
- vRA custom host name using Orchestrator and Event Broker
- How to deliver Database-as-a-Service with vRealize Automation
- Prepare Windows for vRA software deployment
- Missing endpoints after upgrading to vRealize Automation 7.3
- How to run Containers as a Service – Part 1
- How to run Containers as a Service – Part 2
- Infoblox & vRealize Automation, IP Address Management (IPAM) made easy
- How to run Containers as a Service – Secure Docker communications
- Create a new database user using vRealize Automation XaaS
- Infoblox & vRealize Automation, Infoblox NIOS setup
- Infoblox & vRealize Automation, vRA setup
- vRealize Automation failed requests monitoring
- vRealize Automation 7.2 released
- How to specify a deployment target when using vRealize Automation
- vRealize Suite just became a lot easier with Lifecycle Manager
- LAMP Stacks made easy with VMware and Puppet
- How to: Deploy vRealize Automation 8
- Create Custom Names with vRealize Automation 8
- Kubernetes as a Service
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