vra – vTAM

21 March 2024

Aria Automation Rebuild VMs – images

As you may all know, Aria Automation 8.12 incorporated a new Rebuild day-2 feature with the aim to support re-provisioning of vSphere machines while keeping basic configurations in tact. Under the hood this rebuild action deletes the VM and then re-creates the VM while maintaining all of it’s properties. At that moment in time the feature was only available for...

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15 March 2024

Create a user in the VIDM System Directory

While running into some issues with Aria Automation I needed to create a new testuser. Since it was not possible at that time to create an Active Directory account, I decided to create a local account in the VIDM System Directory. Sidenote: depending on where you are in the UI or documentation the product may be called VIDM, VMware Identity...

Access/Powershell/VIDM/vRA

17 November 2023

Add Cloud Account in Aria Automation using API

Since I am deploying new releases of Aria Automation often, I wanted to automate the configuration as much as possible with the tool of my choice Powershell. One of the first things you want to configure after you have deployed Aria Automation is a Cloud Account and a Cloud Zone; in my case a vSphere Cloud Account. From the API...

Aria Automation/Automation/Powershell/vRA

16 November 2023

Generate an Access- and Bearer Token for Aria Automation API Authentication

For automating things in Aria Automation, my preferred method is PowerShell calling the API’s. I’ve been using this method for quite some time as you may have seen in my previous blogposts. Although VMware KB89129 describes the process to retrieve the Access Token, I noticed some people are still struggling to get started, hence I’ll share and explain this specific...

Automation/Powershell/vRA

1 May 2022

vRA 8.8 Custom Names

With the release of vRA 8.8 you can now make use of Custom Names by enabling this feature through the UI. I have written before about vRA Custom Names since the release of version 8.6.1. However, in that version the Custom Names feature was hidden and could only be enabled with some API reverse engineering (hence I had to temporarily...

Automation/vRA

10 February 2022

Using vCenter Content Library with vRealize Automation 8

To speed up vRA VM deployments a common used practice is to copy the “golden” VM templates to each vSphere cluster with a script or via vRealize Orchestrator. In addition for vRA7 environments, the custom property “CloneFrom” [Custom Property] in combination with an Orchestrator Workflow is used to select the template from the cluster that the new VM is deployed...

Automation/vCenter/vRA/vSphere

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

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

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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