17 November 2023

Add Cloud Account in Aria Automation using API

Since I am deploying new releases of Aria Automation often, I wanted to automate the configuration as much as possible with the tool of my choice Powershell. One of the first things you want to configure after you have deployed Aria Automation is a Cloud Account and a Cloud Zone; in my case a vSphere Cloud Account. From the API...

Categories Aria Automation/Automation/Powershell/vRA

16 November 2023

Generate an Access- and Bearer Token for Aria Automation API Authentication

For automating things in Aria Automation, my preferred method is PowerShell calling the API’s. I’ve been using this method for quite some time as you may have seen in my previous blogposts. Although VMware KB89129 describes the process to retrieve the Access Token, I noticed some people are still struggling to get started, hence I’ll share and explain this specific...

Categories Automation/Powershell/vRA

3 April 2023

vRA8 Roles, Permissions & Policies

With this post I would like to inform you on the way we Roles, Permissions and Policies [RRP] are designed within vRA8. While working with customers I realized there was some confusion and different expectations on how this was implemented. With help of some slides I would like to make it clearer and more consumable. Let’s start with an overview!...

Categories vRA

28 March 2023

Generate and replace Log Insight Certificates

Introduction This blogpost is about various options and corresponding tasks to generate and replace vRealize Log Insight (aka Aria Operations for Logs) certificates. Experience and instructions in this blog are based on a standard vSphere Environment (no VCF, no NSX-T): vCenter 7.0u3k, vRealize Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) 8.10 Product Support Pack 8, vRealize Log Insight (vRLI) 8.10.2. My vRLI environment consists...

Categories vRLI/vRSLCM

23 October 2022

vSphere with Tanzu on VDS with HAProxy

This blogpost is about deploying vSphere with Tanzu on a VDS Setup with HAProxy. I know there has been more than one blogpost written on this topic, but here are the steps I took to get up and running with vSphere with Tanzu. The official VMware [documenatiation] has additional and detailed information. Pre-requirements Networking Setup Unify Network with the following...

Categories tanzu/vSphere

3 October 2022

vIDM/Access Connector <> DC2022 [Updated2]

Heads-up to everyone in the process of upgrading their Active Directory Domain Services to 2022! As mentioned in the online documentation, VMware does NOT support AD on Windows Server 2022. The main reason for this is the fact Microsoft changed their LDAP-search member attribute specification, resulting in the Connector failing to retrieve more than 1499 results (this is the MaxValRange...

Categories Access/VIDM/Workspace ONE

28 July 2022

Install ESXi 7 on SD Card or USB

There have been a lot of issues and discussion going on about the installation of ESXi 7 on SD Cards or USB devices. Although it was never recommended, many organizations installed ESXi on SD/USB without any issues until ESXi version 7 was released. While there have been several issues with some ESXi 7 versions, the release of ESXi 7.0U3c resolves...

Categories ESXi/vSphere

3 May 2022

vRSLCM SSO with CNAME

With vRSLCM we are able to integrate with vIDM for SSO purposes. This works flawlessly as long as we use the actual hostname fqdn’s, but as soon as customers use a CNAME to access the same vRSLCM instance with SSO enabled, we encounter SSO logon redirect issues. With this blog-post I will try to explain how to workaround this issue...

Categories VIDM/vRSLCM

1 May 2022

vRA 8.8 Custom Names

With the release of vRA 8.8 you can now make use of Custom Names by enabling this feature through the UI. I have written before about vRA Custom Names since the release of version 8.6.1. However, in that version the Custom Names feature was hidden and could only be enabled with some API reverse engineering (hence I had to temporarily...

Categories Automation/vRA

10 February 2022

Using vCenter Content Library with vRealize Automation 8

To speed up vRA VM deployments a common used practice is to copy the “golden” VM templates to each vSphere cluster with a script or via vRealize Orchestrator. In addition for vRA7 environments, the custom property “CloneFrom” [Custom Property] in combination with an Orchestrator Workflow is used to select the template from the cluster that the new VM is deployed...

Categories Automation/vCenter/vRA/vSphere