Category : VRealize Suite

Written by Christopher Lewis on June 1, 2017 .

VMware vRealize Automation 7.x introduced a #awesome Installation Wizard. This was a #QuantumLeap forward from the vRA6 installation mechanism that can be best described as laborious.

The Installation/Configuration Wizard guides you through all of the stages of the installation and can even install all of the IaaS prerequisites for you. In my experience from vRA6, getting the prerequisites correct, was the place where most pain was caused. This was the reason @vBrianGraf created some powershell scripts to handle it.

VMware vRealize vRealize Automation

Written by Christopher Lewis on May 26, 2017 .

Intro

I was drafted into a customer today to try and work out why, amongst other small niggles, their Windows Virtual Machines had suddenly started to hang during provisioning. The deployments were from a relatively standard IaaS Blueprint that was created 6 months ago. I thought I would share my thought process/steps (right or wrong) to solving the issue and also tell you what happened. I’m not really a “check the logs” kind of guy (unless its uber complicated).

VMware vRealize Automation Blueprints

Written by Christopher Lewis on May 24, 2017 .

VMware vRealize Orchestrator 7.3 is out! ( Release Notes ) and the deployment and configuration process is now a lot slicker and easier to complete. In this HOWTO, we look at the the process of configuring Role Based Access Management within the Control Center.

There are three Pre-Defined Roles are:

  • Administrator - Has access to All configuration menus.
  • Tenant Admin - Has access to only to Role Based Access Management and Inspect Workflows.
  • Consumer - Has access to only to Inspect Workflows.

Important things to remember that I discovered through testing are:

VMware vRealize Suite vRealize Orchestrator HOWTO

Written by Christopher Lewis on May 23, 2017 .

VMware vRealize Orchestrator 7.3 is out! ( Release Notes ) and the deployment process is now a lot slicker and easier to complete. In this HOWTO, we look at the process that can be followed for the configuration of a single standalone Orchestrator Appliance.

Prerequisites

  1. Successful deployment of the VMware vRealize Orchestrator 7.3 Appliance.
  2. (optional) A DNS CNAME record for vro.fqdn to replace vro.app.fqdn.

Configuration Steps

Using a web browser, navigate to https://vro.app.fqdn:8281/vco/.

VMware vRealize Suite vRealize Orchestrator HOWTO