Prepare Windows for vRA software deployment
With vRealize Automation you can install and configure software during deployment. For this to happen a Bootstrap agent has to be in place. This agent can be installed manual or in case of Linux with the help of a template script. In this article I…
How to deliver Database-as-a-Service with vRealize Automation
Recently we (My colleague Dimitri and myself) delivered a Proof of Concept (PoC) at a customer with vRealize Automation 7. During the PoC we have proven a few different use cases like deploying a Linux virtual machine with a JBoss application using an integration with…
vRealize Automation 7.2 released
Yesterday vRealize Automation 7.2 was released by VMware. vRealize Automation is the automation platform by VMware. The first time I heard about it I was a bit puzzled. Don’t we all already do automation? Isn’t that the basics of what IT is? It depends on…
vRA custom host name using Orchestrator and Event Broker
In a recent POC the customer had a special use case which I tackled singing vRealize Orchestrator and the Event Broker Service. So, what was the use case? Roll out a new Windows vSphere virtual machine using a custom hostname based on the machine…
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,…
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…
vRealize Automation 7 – Converged Blueprints
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. Converged blueprints A long awaited new feature is the…
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…