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vRealize Automation Order of Precedence for Custom Properties.
If you have just started working with vRealize Automation, you will notice that you can apply custom properties to many elements. While this is great and add a lot of flexibility to the product and make it easier to customize the product to do things differently in the way you desire. It can get confusing…
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vCloud Air DR to Cloud with vRealize Automation
Traditionally organizations have reserved their Disaster Recovery capabilities to their most critical workload leaving some important workloads without proper disaster recovery due to the high cost of disaster recovery. Imagine if you went shopping to buy a car with a friend. When you hit the dealership, your friend tell you that you should buy two…
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Replacing Certificates in vRealize Automation 7
If you worked with vRA 6.x and earlier, you will definetly know that replacing certs was a very involving process. The great news is that vRA 7 has eliminated most of the work required to do so and automated a good part of the process. Unfortunately, this is not clearly documented in vRA 7 documentation,…
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vRealize Automation 7 Bootstrap Installation
vRealize Automation 7 converged blueprint is now offering you the capabilities to go beyond VMs deployment to being able to design/deploy a full application stack. In order to enable application deployment in vRA, you will need to install vRA 7 bootstrap in your VM template. In this post, I will cover how to install vRA…
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VMware Hybrid Cloud Manager vs vCloud Connector
While some readers might be surprised of me comparing Hybrid Cloud Manager and vCloud Connector as many might assume that Hybrid Cloud Manager is replacing vCloud Connector, so why compare them. While this might be true in the long term, its still not the case today. While Hybrid Cloud Manager Excel at some of the…
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How to Pass Encrypted Custom Properties to vRealize Automation Guest Agent
Please note passing encrypted custom properties to the Guest Agent in vRA 7.0.1 and higher has been included as an Out of the Box feature. It still use the square brackets as in the below article but it will not require you to modify any files as it was the case with previous versions. You…
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VMware Cross-Cloud vMotion is another major milestone on VMware Seemless Hybrid Cloud Vision
If you are like me or many of VMware customers who has been following the VMware Hybrid Cloud Story closely for a while, you have probably asked yourself or your sales rep when will you be able to move your Virtual Machines back and forth between On Premise (Private Cloud) to vCloud Air (VMware Public…
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vRealize Automation Modifying Approval E-mails
One of the questions I get often asked by customers is how to modify vRA e-mail templates. To be honest the most one customers usually care to modify is the Approval e-mail to include more information than what is provided in the out of the box template. In this article, I will show you how…
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vRealize Automation Gugent stuck and machine deployment timeout
After installing the vRA 6.2.2 Gugent into our Windows 2012 R2 template, blueprint deployment started to time out. As I had followed the exact steps I have previously used to install the Gugent for quite few customers before which in turn I have already documented on my following blog post: vRA Guest Agent Installation, I was…
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vRealize Automation deployment to vCloud Air fails
After configuring vRealize Automation Center to be ready to deploy to vCloud Air (End Point, Fabric Group, Reservation, Reservation Policy, Blueprints, etc), my initial vAPP blueprint deployment to vCloud Air has started to fail with the below error message. “Request failed: Machine VTTest001: an error occurred while customizing the vapp..” Checking the vRA logs…
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vRealize Automation iaas-service does not register after installation
While doing the usual vRA 6.2.2 large deployment distributed install, and after everything in the installation went smoothly without any errors, the vRA infrastructure tab was not working. Checking the vRA Services through the vRA Appliance VAMI, and noticed all of my services are up and running as expected with its status being registered, beside the…
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vRealize Automation 6.2 moving to Internal replicated vPostgres
When delivering a vRealize Automation 6.1 and prior in a distributed install, the recommendation was always to have an external vPostgres instance. This has changed in vRealize Automation 6.2 and it’s briefly touched upon in the vRA 6.2 reference architecture found at: vRealize Automation 6.2 reference Architecture. I wanted to make sure to highlight this,…
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Resource Actions does not show up in vRealize Automation 6.2.1
I had an instance of vRealize Automation 6.2 with few resource actions that were built under Advanced Services with things like take snapshot and move VMs to a different folder in vCenter. These were working like a charm in vRealize Automation 6.2, but as soon I upgraded to 6.2.1 they stopped showing in the items…
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vCAC 6.x using gugent to run scripts
Lately, I have been getting a lot of questions about how to use the vCAC Gugent to run scripts within the guest OS of your deployed VM. While if you are deploying simple VMs using vCAC this use case might not sound obvious, it has a lot of uses to it in the real world.…
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VMware vRealize Automation 6.2 and the missing vCO
If you have tried to upgrade your current vCloud Automation Center distributed install to vRealize Automation 6.2 or if you have tried to plan for the upgrade lately, you will notice one piece of the puzzle seems to be missing. At the time vRealize Automation 6.2 was released, vRealize Orchestrator 6.0 was not released yet…