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Written by Christopher Lewis on November 5, 2016 .
The Series
- Configuring SSL certificates for vRA 7.x (inc vRO)
- Replacing the Appliance Management Site Certificate for vRealize Automation
- Replacing the Control Center Certificate on an embedded vRO instance
- Replacing the Package Signing Certificate in vRO 7
Replacing the Certificate
This is the second post in a series tackling the extra certificates you may want to replace once you have deployed vRealize Automation.
After a quick look around the VMware Documentation Center and I found the article for replacing the VAMI certificate ( https://vra.fqdn:5480 ). The VAMI certificate can be replaced using the same SAN certificate used for the vRA Virtual Appliance during the installation wizard, but it will need to be converted to Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) format to do so.
Written by Christopher Lewis on November 5, 2016 .
So when deploying vRealize Automation, I can be bit OCD when it comes to certificates and websites. Where possible/plausible, I like to make sure all of the sites in the deployment have trusted certificates especially if there is a root CA in play (after all they’re free certificates right?).
After deploying the VMware vRealize Automation 7.x appliance from the OVA (that’s the easy bit) and successfully (normally on the second/third attempt) running through the deployment wizard to deploy a Medium distributed environment. We end up with certificates for the following components:
vRealize vRealize Automation vRealize Orchestrator Certificates
Written by Christopher Lewis on November 4, 2016 .
OK so you’ve finally deployed vRealize Automation 7.x and you’re pretty chuffed with yourself because it only two 2 rollbacks on the Windows VMs, a new VA deployment and some on the fly configuration tweaks to get it working… You’re #Awesome.
You’re following VMware best practice and you have your embedded vRealize Orchestrator instance on your vRealize Automation Virtual Appliance(s). You #RockThisWorld
You’re on a role. but now you now have to install a new plugin for vRealize Orchestrator (lets say for Infoblox IPAM or F5 LTM), so you try https://vra.fqdn:8281/vco like you did on the vRO 6 appliance but get a “this site cannot be reached” message. You then remember, configuration was on 8283, so you try https://vra.fqdn:8283/vco-confg again with no luck and a “this site cannot be reached” message.
Written by Christopher Lewis on October 25, 2016 .
The last day of VMworld came along sooner than I expected.
I decided to drop most of my sessions and just chill out in the hang space. Why did I drop the last few sessions? because I’d finally realised I’d been doing VMworld all wrong…
It dawned on me that whilst over the last 3 days the sessions I had attended re-enforced by knowledge, it didn’t (on the whole) enhance it. I’d chosen the wrong path. On the whole, I had chosen sessions on topics I already had in-depth knowledge on in the hope that some new information/wisdom would be imparted during the sessions. It suddenly dawned on me that actually, the majority of the sessions were not really geared towards the #vExperts or Consultants who do this for there job day in and day out, but for the VMware customers who wanted to know more but didn’t know where to look. In an average 1 hour session, I found maybe 5-10 minutes of useful information. Which wasn’t a great return on my time investment. The sessions I had attended were (on the whole) great, but the vast majority of the sessions I could watch on playback either from VMworld US or VMworld EMEA after the event.
Written by Christopher Lewis on October 24, 2016 .
Wednesday night (like most other nights) at VMworld is PARTY night!
However this night was the VMware Customer Appreciation Party night, where customers, vendors and partners can come together to enjoy free food, free wacky sunglasses and free entertainment (and most importantly feel appreciated).
It definitely had an old-school american theme/vibe with Hot Dogs, Burgers and Ice cream stand littered around the General Session hall.
A chance for those with hair to let it down and bond with our newly found friends in the spirit of the VMware Community!
Written by Christopher Lewis on October 23, 2016 .
To round of the off the first evening at VMworld Barcelona, I attended the very first VMworld Hackathon - Barcelona (#HackVMW) run by Alan Renouf ( @alanrenouf ).
Seven teams of disparate (or is that desparate?) individuals came together with one goal in mind: to complete (well nearly) 7 different projects.
I was lucky enough to be in Team 7 (AKA Team Anger Management), with Team Captain Mike Foley ( @mikefoley ), sub-team captain Duncan Epping ( @DuncanYB ) ,Myles Gray ( @mylesagray ),Cormac Hogan ( @CormacJHogan ), Paudie O’Reilly( @oriorp ), Dario Dörflinger.
Written by Christopher Lewis on October 23, 2016 .
The day started with the General Session where the pre-show artist was #awesome.
This was followed by Jean-Pierre Bruard SVP & GM EMEA ( @vmwarebrulard ) with the obligatory thank you to all attendees and sponsors and also introduced the vminclusion initiative.
Written by Christopher Lewis on October 23, 2016 .
VMware 2016 kicked off on Sunday evening with vRockstar 2016 - a social gathering at the Hard Rock Cafe in the Plaça de Catalunya, Barcelona.
I was lucky enough to get a ticket to this event as tickets sold out very quickly when they were released. The event was jam packed with people i’d spoken to but never met face to face. Not to mention, the food and drinks were flowing though out the night. #goodtime
Written by Christopher Lewis on October 21, 2016 .
Day 2 of VMworld 2016 was kicked off with the another General Session.
The opening act was a Blues Band, which were very cool and happened to have** Sanjay Poonen** ( @spoonen ) as the piano player. Totally unexpected surprise, but what an awesome way to start a keynote!
The EUC focused keynote started off with Sanjay Poonen providing an overview of the VMware Vision for Digital Transformation. In essence, the Any Device, Any Application part of the VMware One Cloud Vision which has been a focal point for the last few years. Which Sanjay suggested that Digital Transformation would be the fourth industrial revolution.
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