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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

26 August 2021

Password management in VCF with Powershell and PowerVCF

SDDC Manager is the core component of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) to manage full life cycle management tasks such as deployment, configuration, patching and upgrades. SDDC Manager can even be used to update and (automatically) rotate the passwords of all components. This feature called is Password management and can be found under Administration, Security. With Password Management it is possible...

Powershell/VCF

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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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...

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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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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

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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