Marco Baaijen

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!...

vRA Comments: 0

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...

Access/VIDM/Workspace ONE Comments: 0

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...

VIDM/vRSLCM Comments: 0

9 December 2021

Air-gapped Terraform <> vRA integration

As a follow-up to the previous Terraform integration post I will now try to explain how we can complete the integration in a fully air-gapped environment. To achieve this we need to make several resources locally available. Let me first flash back to the non air-gapped situation for which we zoom into the external resources used. Let’s revisit the external...

Automation/Terraform/vRA Comments: 0

6 October 2021

Getting Started with vRA 8 Terraform Runtime Integration

Terraform is gaining a lot of traction in the Infrastructure-as-code space, both from a end-user perspective as within integrations. Let me try to explain what each of these bring with vRA 8! Terraform as end-user For configuring vRA related constructs as Cloud-accounts, Projects, Users, Groups, Cloud-Templates For triggering Cloud-Template deployments Leverages local Terraform executable and provider (vSphere, vRA, NSX, …)...

Automation/Terraform/vRA Comment: 1

2 July 2021

Integrating vLCM with UMDS and/or HPE OneView

With the new vSphere 7 vLCM capabilities we are able to integrate with our own and third-party patch-store products to provide vLCM with the needed patches, drivers and firmware in an attempt to update our servers with a single cluster image. This all sounds very nice but along the way we may encounter several issues with certificates, downloading patches and...

vCenter/VCF/vLCM/vSphere Comments: 0

2 March 2021

vCenter Alarms export/import revisited and fixed

UPDATE 2 Feb 2022: Unfortunately, due to changes in vCenter 7.0U2 and U3 the below procedure does not work flawlessly anymore. Thanks to my colleague/customer Willem for noticing this and providing the details! So, what changed in the latest version of vSphere 7? New alarms with special characters > fixed with a function to filter them Description field to long...

PowerCLi/vCenter Comments: 4

24 December 2020

Workspace ONE Access ‘Mind Map’

While attending the very valuable VMware Access Bootcamp training I got overwhelmed by all moving parts that are to be explored in this great product. During the course, of which most video content is available on VMware’s TechZone, you will experience a tsunami of information. I found it hard to remember which feature is to be found where and what...

Access/Horizon/VIDM/Workspace ONE Comments: 0

30 November 2020

Horizon 7.13 “ESB” release

As a follow-up on my previous post I have good news for the customers that need to stay on Horizon 7 release, most probably due to the support for the older Windows 8.1 Operating System. Recently (Oct 15, 2020) Horizon 7.13 reached GA and VMware decided to consider this as an unofficial Extended Service Branch release meaning VMware is committed...

Horizon Comments: 0

17 June 2020

PaaS Capabilities and how VMware Tanzu fits in

VMware is on a mission when it comes to supporting Modern [Cloud Native] Applications. This journey started many years ago and was aimed to support existing customers to Run, Build and Manage all their applications on their existing platform (the VMware Software Defined Datacenter as we call it). VMware also has an healthy urge to deliver customers the best solutions...

CNA/tanzu/TAS/TKG/TKGI/vSphere Comments: 0

Author: Marco Baaijen