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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...

vRA/vRSLCM Comments: 0

20 May 2020

VIA – VMware Imaging Appliance

Many customers need and use tooling for imaging their ESXi-servers. Some of them are very old and some newer but unable to image their servers using the latest ESXi builds. Not many know that the VMware Cloud Foundation Suite is incorporating an Imaging Appliance (VIA). This appliance started it’s life during the EVO:Rail and EVO:Rack era at VMware. With this...

ESXi/VCF/vSphere Comments: 2

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...

Automation/vRA Comments: 3

17 March 2020

Horizon & Windows 8.1 support

As explained in this blog post, VMware is ending support for Windows 7 and 8 running as a Virtual Desktop on Horizon. Though the blog post explains every aspect in detail with references to external sources, I decided to create Windows 8.1 slide-version in which I also added future support state for the upcoming vSphere 7 and Horizon 8 releases....

Horizon Comments: 6

17 March 2020

VMware Workspace ONE Apps & Catalogs explained

Working on customer engagements we noticed some misunderstanding on the available catalogs in Workspace ONE and how Apps can be delivered. In the below summary I will try to explain this into more detail. The goal is to create an overview of current features for Application compatibility and delivery methods through available Application Catalogs. We can distinguish the following topics:...

Access/UEM/Workspace ONE Comments: 3

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...

vRA/vRSLCM Comment: 1