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vCloud Automation Center 6.x Time Bomb Issues
As I know quite few of my vCloud Automation Center 6.x (lately renamed to vRealize Automation) customers are following my blog, I wanted to share this important information of a two different time bombs issues that affect the 6.x releases of the product. The purpose of this post is to highlight these two time bomb…
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VMware vRealize Automation 6.2 is now available for download
vRealize Automation 6.2, which is the new name for vCloud Automation Center has been made available for download earlier today. This release will be adding a lot of new enhancement & features where you can find the full list in the vRealize Automation 6.2 Release notes. In here I want to cover few main enhancements,…
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vCAC Guest Agent Installation
While using VMware vCloud Automation Center Guest Agent or as many call it Gugent is not a mandatory requirements to use vCAC, it has its merits and use cases. In fact, many customers don’t end up deploying the vCAC Guest Agent within their Windows & Linux machines from day one, as not having the agent…
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How to use vCAC new NetworkProfileName Custom Properties
Before the release of vCloud Automation Center 6.1.1, it was common to combine the use of the two below custom properties to assign a particular virtual machine to a particular portgroup/Network Path and a particular network profile: VirtualMachine.NetworkN.Name: This custom property is used to put the virtual machine network adapter N, on the portgroup name…
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Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass [specialize]
I was at a customer which I have deployed vCloud Automation Center 6.1 for, and they tried to create a new blueprint. They have copied the old blueprint and only changed the VM template used in that blueprint from Windows 2012 to Windows 2008 R2. They saved and published the new blueprint without any problem,…
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vCAC 6 Property Dictionary Relationship Builder
Note: If you are looking for how use Property Dictionary Relationship in vRA 7.0, then you want to look at my updated article at: vRA 7 Property Dictionary Relationship, though if you are looking for vRA 6.0, then please keep reading below. While you can create property Dictionary Relationship XML by hand as I have shown…
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vCAC 6 Property Dictionary Relationship
Note: If you are looking for how use Property Dictionary Relationship in vRA 7.0, then you want to look at my updated article at: vRealize Automation 7 Property Dictionary Relationship, though if you are looking for vRA 6.0, then please keep reading below. Property Dictionary Relationship in vCAC 6 allow you to build a relationship between…
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vCAC 6 Custom Properties – Build Profiles – Property Dictionary
vCloud Automation Center offer a lot of extensibility features built in within the product that help you achieve your desired result while minimizing the amount of coding required. vCAC Custom Properties, Build Profiles, Property Dictionary is just an example of how you can customize the product to meet your needs while minimizing coding as well…
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vCloud Automation Center 6.1 Upgrade (Step-by-Step)
As the long waiting vCAC 6.1 was released beginning of this week, I have decided to test the upgrade process in my home lab as many of my customers are getting ready to benefit of the new features and enahancements in this release. The good news for everyone that the process is straight forward, where…
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Convert your vCAC Appliance to a vPostgres DB Appliance for vCAC Distributed install in 5 easy steps
VMware vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0 documentation and reference architecture recommends the utilization of an external instance of vPostgres when setting up a large/Medium distributed vCAC environment. However, since the release of vCAC 6.0 documentation, standalone vPostgres is EOA and no longer available as a standalone product. VMware has addressed that by allowing you to…
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How to configure vCAC not to delete VMs after deployment failure
I have a customer approach me asking of how we can stop vCAC from deleting VMs after deployment has failed for debugging purposes. The default behavior of vCAC is to delete the VM after deployment failure even if that failure was just caused by Guest customization failure or by the Guest Agent execution failure. The…
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vCAC 6 Service Temporarily Unavailable
As I have deployed vCloud Automation Center 6.0.1 in my home lab on vSphere 5.5, the installation worked flawlessly as I have carried out the same installation several times in production for several customers before. vCAC seemed to work without any problem at all for few hours, then I started getting the following error every time…
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vCloud Automation Center and vCenter Appliance
Yesterday, I was asked twice if using our vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) with vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) is a viable option. As one of the two requests came from inside our VCDX family, It seems to be not a common knowledge, not when I get asked by another VCDX about it. I thought this seems…
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vCAC 6 Missing VM Actions
This problems seems to lately surface more than not when delivery a vCAC 6 Distributed installation. After you complete your vCloud Automation Center 6 installation without a hitch and you thought everything is working perfectly, you go to your Catalog Entitlements and try to assign Actions allowed and you notice that you have only few…
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vCAC 6 Service Unreachable – Reference error REPO404
While delivering a distributed install of vCloud Automation Center using exactly the same steps I have used for few previous engagements, & while the setup completed perfectly without any errors, accessing the infrastructure tab in vCAC has continuously reported the following error: —————————————————————————- Service Unreachable A required service cannot be reached at the expected address.…