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23 January 2022

VIDM 3.3.5 to 3.3.6 Upgrade Error – Fix the missing OVF Properties with PowerCLi.

Update 05/feb/2023; I ran into this issue again while upgrading to 3.3.7 and created an updated Powershell script on my [Github] page. After the release of vRealize Automation 8.6.2 and deploying this in greenfield, I also wanted to upgrade my “production” environment. Before you can upgrade to vRA 8.6.2, you have to upgrade vRSLCM to version 8.6.2 and VIDM to...

VIDM/vRSLCM

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

26 November 2021

vRA 8.6.1 Custom names

Update 29/04 – Although the Custom Names feature is available in vRA 8.6.1. it is a hidden feature and not available from the UI. I had some issues around the contents of this blogpost so I decided to temporarily remove it. Please check out my new blogpost [here] about the custom names feature which is available in vRA 8.8 Before...

vRA

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

2 October 2021

Getting started with vRA SaltStack Config – part 2

If you successfully complete part 1, it is now time to see the integration between vRA and SaltStack in action. To make life a bit easier (but insecure) you can configure SSC to automatically Accept new Minion Keys. To do this, you have to edit the file /etc/salt/master and look for the auto_accept entry. Remove the bracket and set the...

Automation/SaltStack/vRA

2 October 2021

Getting started with vRA SaltStack Config – part 1

I finally got some time to work with vRA Saltstack Config (SSC) and want to share my experience in this blogpost. My starting point is: vRSLCM 8.4.1.1 Patch 2 with VIDM 3.3.5 and vRA 8.5.1 Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) Cloud ova image on a local webserver (or Content library). You can find the latest [here]: Microsoft CA with generated certificates...

Automation/SaltStack/vRA

14 August 2021

Automated deployment of vRealize Automation 8.x via PowerShell – Part 2

If all went well during Part 1, you should now have a fresh vRSLCM installation. In this part I will use another script to take care of configuring vRSLCM, deploying VIDM and deploying vRA, both as single node. Just like the previous script, some parts of the script may be further optimized and need additional error handling. Also, I did...

Automation/Powershell/VIDM/vRA/vRSLCM

13 August 2021

Automated deployment of vRealize Automation 8.x via Powershell – Part 1

For my work, I regularly need to deploy a fresh vRA Environment, either to test with a specific (older) version or new beta release. Although the Deployment of vRA is relatively easy, it always takes me more time than I like, so I decided to throw in some extra time and automate the deployment of vRSLCM, VIDM and VRA. There...

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29 May 2021

VIDM 3.3.5 Upgrade and Disk Resize

Update 15/11/2021 Please check out [this] blogpost with an updated procedure for resizing disks. Original post This week I wanted to update my vRealize deployment with vRA 8.4.1 and VIDM 3.3.5. My starting environment is vRSLCM 8.4, VIDM 3.3.4 and vRA 8.4. The first step, is to upgrade vRSLCM. If you try to add VIDM 3.3.5 or vRA 8.4.1 to...

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20 April 2021

Reset upgraded VIDM root password

Recently I ran into an issue with a customer where the vidm root password was lost. There are a couple of blogposts and kb articles that describe how to reset the root password, but in this case it was a bit different. During the upgrade from vidm 3.3.2 to 3.3.3 or 3.3.4, the underlying SLES OS is replaced by Photon....

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