vRSLCM – vTAM

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...

vRLI/vRSLCM

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

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

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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1 December 2020

Upgrade to VMware Identity Manager (VIDM) 3.3.3 with vRealize LifeCycle Manager (vRSLCM)

VMware released VMware Identity Manager (VIDM) 3.3.3 on the 13th of November (yes.. on a friday for superstitious ;)). Note that newer versions of this product are renamed to Workspace One Access. In the VMware Validated Design (VVD) Documentation, VIDM is often referred to as Workspace One Access. This article describes the upgrade of a single VIDM, non-clustered deployment to...

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13 July 2020

Upgrade to vROPS 8.1.1 with vRealize LifeCycle Manager

VMware released vRealize Operations Manager 8.1.1. This is a maintenance release which resolves a few important security and functionality issues identified in the product. The release notes can be found here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations-Manager/8.1.1/rn/vRealize-Operations-Manager-811.html Just like with the vRLI 8.1.1 release, you need to update vRSLCM with a Product Support Pack, which is 8.1.0.2 in this case. You may have received a...

vROPS/vRSLCM

30 May 2020

Upgrade to vRealize Log Insight 8.1.1 with vRealize LifeCycle Manager

VMware just release vRealize Log Insight 8.1.1, which is a maintenance release that includes security fixes to resolve CVE-2020-3953 (See VMSA-2020-0007 and updates (see KB79258). According to the release notes, this release also helps you leverage the benefits of community supported content packs. Since I use vRSLCM to manage the lifecycle of my vRealize components I hit Check Patches Online...

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