Bye bye, VMware vSphere C# client
VMware has announced that the vSphere C# client will no longer be available with the next release of vSphere. It should not come as a big surprise as VMware has been preparing for this for a long time. VMware has been transiting away from the C# client…
Automation is not difficult with vRealize Automation 7
At the Dutch VMUG UserConference two weeks ago, I presented a session together with my colleagues Dimitri on how Automation is not difficult with vRealize Automation 7. Because we got good feedback and we’ve got the demo’s recorded, I thought I’d share this with you all….
How to transfer vRealize Automation payload to Orchestrator
With the release of vRealize Automation 7, VMware introduced a new method of extending the capabilities of vRealize Automation with the Event Broker Service (EBS). This is a message bus integrated (RabbitMQ) extensibility engine to provide UI-driven extensibility options for some serious lifecycle state automation options,…
Monitor vCenter Server appliance with the End-Point Operations Agent
With the release of VMware vRealize Operations Manager version 6.1, VMware introduced a new method for monitoring inside a supported operating system. Before vRealize Operations 6.1, you needed vRealize Hyperic to monitors operating systems, middleware and applications running in physical, virtual and cloud environments. With the 6.1…
VMware Fling – VMware Access Point Deployment Utility
With Horizon 6.2 VMware introduced the VMware Access Point, which is a virtual appliance designed to allow secure remote access to virtual desktops and applications served by Horizon 6. The VMware Access Point is very similar to the View Security Server, but offers some additional benefits. VMware…
VMware releases vRealize Code Stream Management Pack for IT DevOps (Houdini)
Today ‘project Houdini’ has freed itself from the shackles with VMware’s release of the vRealize Code Stream Management Pack for IT DevOps 1.0.0. DevOps for infrastructure VMware vRealize Code Stream Management Pack for IT DevOps helps IT teams to apply the same DevOps best practices…
vSphere 6 experiencing high packet loss
Since I have updated my lab environment to vSphere 6, I regularly get ‘Virtual machine is experiencing high number of received packets dropped‘ messages in vRealize Operations for all virtual machines in my environment. I canceled these alerts multiple times but the high packet loss errors always return….
vRealize Automation 7 – LifeCycle Extensibility
The new vRealize Automation 7 LifeCycle Extensibility is probably one of the most impressive and powerful new features. LifeCycle Extensibility is an Event Broker Service which enables providers to register and manage events, producers and consumers. You can now use the out-of-the box extensibility, by plugging new functionality without the…
vRealize Automation 7 – New Architecture & Installation
Today VMware announced the long awaited new version of their cloud management product vRealize Automation 7 (vRA7). This new release, previously known under codename Bellatrix, is a major overhaul and includes many new features and enhancements. vRealize Automation 7 Architecture First of all, vRealize Automation…
vRealize Automation 7 – Improved Authentication
Today VMware announced the long awaited new version of their cloud management product vRealize Automation 7 (vRA7). This new release, previously known under codename Bellatrix, is a major overhaul and includes many new features and enhancements. Authentication Another huge improvement in vRealize Automation 7 is…
Track infrastructure changes with vRealize Automation Data Collection
vRealize Automation Data Collection is the process where it connects to its infrastructure source endpoints and their compute resources to collect all kinds of information. Within vRealize Automation there are different data collection types: Infrastructure Source Endpoint Data Collection; Updates information about virtualization hosts, templates, and…
Setup provisioning of vCloud Air workloads
You may think you know Blueprint creation but this part differs a bit from a traditional blueprint in vRealize Automation. Normally in vRealize Automation, a single blueprint is created, published and added to the Catalog. The provisioning of vCloud Air workloads is a bit different,…
Setup a vCloud Air Endpoint in vRealize Automation
Every company nowadays want to do ‘something’ with cloud services. For this POC I had one use case proving we could deploy workloads to vCloud Air just like you would deploying the to the local vSphere infrastructure. vCloud Air is available as a subscription service…
Setup Postgres database high availability for vRealize Automation
Earlier in this series, I discussed Microsoft SQL database high availability but when deploying a fully distributed vRealize Automation environment, you also need to protect the Postgres database on the vRealize Automation appliance. In the past, when you wanted high availability for the vCloud Automation Center/vRealize…
Downgrade the vRealize Automation license
After running a vRealize Automation Enterprise license for some time I tried to downgrade the license on the vRealize Automation appliance to the Advanced version. This resulted in the error message ‘Unable to downgrade the existing license edition‘. This can also happen when you try…