vRA – Page 2

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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31 January 2021

Cumulative Security Update for vRA 7.6

Updated March 9th 2021;March 2021 Platform Security Update, Februari vRA7.6 Hotfix 20. Recently I received a customer question about the installation of a vRA 7.6 Security update. The question was related to the Cumulative Security Update for vRealize Automation 7.6, which is mentioned in VMware KB80044; https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/80044 To be honest I was not even aware of the existence of these...

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26 July 2020

How to setup an SSH keypair for use with vRealize Automation 8 Blueprints

Introduction I have started my career mainly working with Windows as Guest Operating system, but during the years I’ve been using Linux (mainly Red Hat and CentOS and lately Ubuntu) more and more. I am by far a specialist, but I know enough to do the basic setup, install an application, and do some simple configuration stuff. What I like...

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21 May 2020

vRSLCM 8.1 Patch 1

Today May 22nd 2020, VMware has released Patch 1 for vRealize LifeCycle Manager (vRSLCM) 8.1. The release notes can be found here: [link]. So what is new? Not that much to the eye, mainly some fixes around vRA that might be usefull for your situation: Scale-out of Patched Environments [link]. See screenshot at the end. Integration Improvements between vRealize Automation...

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5 April 2020

vRA8 Infoblox Integration

Update: 04-may-2020; updates links/versions. This article describes the basic setup for the vRA 8 Infoblox integration. Official VMware documentation about this topic can be found at the following link: “Add an external IPAM integration point in vRealize Automation Cloud Assembly” [link]. Infoblox has written a Deployment Guide which can be found here [link]. The new v1.1 vRA Infoblox Plugin can...

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15 March 2020

vRealize Automation 8.0.1 Deployment with HF2

This article describes the deployment of vRealize Automation (vRA) 8.0.1 with the HF2 patch via vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) 8.0.1 with Patch 1. The release notes for vRSLCM 8.0.1 can be found here [link]The release notes for vRA 8.0.1 can be found here [link]After the installation we will install vRSLCM 8.0.1 Patch 1 and vRA 8.0.1 HF2 patch directly...

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14 March 2020

How to Extend the vRSLCM Disk and resume patch download

This article describes what to do when you run out of storage in vRealize Suite LifeCycle Manager (vRSLCM). In my case this was triggered by starting to download the vRA 8.0.1 Patch 1 In vRSLCM you see the message “Disk Usage of the system is very high at 100%. To avoid failures please extend storage from system details page.” First...

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