In the final part of this three post blog series, we will complete our Zero2Hero journey by looking at how we can deploy multiple machines each with identical external disk configurations. In this final post we will look to decode the cloud template as much as possible so we can understand what is happening and why!

Written by Christopher Lewis on March 7, 2024.

VMware Aria VMware Aria Automation

In part three of this four post blog series, we will continue our Zero2Hero journey in understanding the authoring VMware Cloud Templates. We will continue with working towards the use case for deploy multiple virtual machines (with additional on-demand disk configurations).

Written by Christopher Lewis on March 6, 2024.

VMware Aria VMware Aria Automation

In the second post of this four post blog series, we can continue our journey from Zero2Hero in authoring VMware Cloud Templates. We will be increment the functionality in the VMware Cloud Template as continue to work on the use case for deploy multiple virtual machines (with additional on-demand disk configurations).

Written by Christopher Lewis on March 5, 2024.

VMware Aria VMware Aria Automation

In this four post blog series, we will be looking at how we can go from Zero2Hero in authoring VMware Cloud Templates. We will be using the use case for deploy multiple virtual machines (with additional on-demand disk configurations) but we’ll start at the beginning and incrementally update the capability of the VMware Cloud Template to add different capabilities.

Written by Christopher Lewis on February 29, 2024.

VMware Aria VMware Aria Automation

As a follow up to my previous post VMware Explore Barcelona 2023 - Top Things to Know Before You Go , and with just under 2 weeks to go before VMware Explore 2023 Barcelona, here are my top 6 reasons why you should make it your mission to swing on over to the VMware Hands-on Labs area whilst you are at the conference!

Written by Christopher Lewis on October 21, 2023.

VMware VMware Explore Hands-on Labs HOL

With just under three weeks to go before VMware Explore comes to Barcelona, I thought it was about time I shared some of my top tips for attending any technology conference (with an obvious focus on VMware Explore Barcelona)!

Written by Christopher Lewis on October 18, 2023.

VMware VMware Explore

In this post we will look at how and why we would use Advanced Workload Placement using allocation-based capacity metrics. In doing this we will review the basics of workload placement and Demand vs Allocation capacity metrics, look how to enable Advanced Workload Placement in VMware Aria Automation and how we can configure Advanced Workload Placement in Aria Operations to use allocation rather than demand-based metrics.

Written by Christopher Lewis on September 17, 2023.

VMware VMware Aria VMware Aria Operations VMware Aria Automation

In this post, we will look at how we can use the VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) API to deploy vRealize Automation SaltStack Config (vRASSC) in a single node deployment configuration into both a new and an existing vRSLCM environment.

Written by Christopher Lewis on January 5, 2023.

vRSLCM API vRA-SSC

From version 8.6, VMware Aria Automation (formerly vRealize Automation) introduced the capability to add a VMware Cloud Director (VCD) Organization as a Cloud Account. In this post, we will look at how we can use the Aria Automation (AA) Infrastructure as a Service API to configure a VMware Cloud Director Cloud Account without the need for the UI.

Written by Christopher Lewis on September 23, 2022.

Aria Automation AA VCD API

In this post, we will look at how we can use the VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) API to deploy vRealize Operations (vROps) in a single node deployment configuration into both a new and an existing vRSLCM environment.

Written by Christopher Lewis on August 27, 2022.

vRSLCM API vROps