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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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Serve NFS and CIFS from your VMware Virtual SAN
I have seen the question of being able to serve NFS and CIFS storage from VMware Virtual SAN comes up often lately, as customers want to be able to serve files storage to their VMs for different reasons, below is couples of reasons I have heard often: My applications requires file sharing via NFS or CIFS/SMB…
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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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Free VMTurbo Datacenter Stencils for Microsoft Visio and OmniGraffle
If you often create Architecture Diagrams using Microsoft Visio or OmniGraffle, then you are always in the look for new stencils and shapes that you can reuse into your design. VMturbo has just released a good Datacenter Stencils that work for both Microsoft Visio and OmniGraffle. The free VMturbo Topology Stencils covers all of the…
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How to Downgrade VM Hardware Version
I have often got the question if you can downgrade your Virtual Machine Hardware version from the latest version to a previous version. There is many reasons why you might want to downgrade your VM Hardware Version, but below is few common ones I have heard: VM hardware version you upgraded to is not supported…
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My Home Lab Converged Infrastructure Challenge
As I had some challenges with my Home Lab due to some hardware failure, I had to revert from using a dedicated storage box (White box + Windows + bunch of disk + StarWind Virtual SAN) as I no longer have the luxury of having that extra machine to use. I have ended up with…
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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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Unable to establish an SSL connection with vCenter Server
While trying to export one of my VMs into OVF from my virtual infrastructure using the vSphere Web Client, I kept getting the following error: “Could not connect to the remote resource: SSL connect error”. I have as well tested to import OVF templates into my VMware vSphere environment, and I was getting the same error,…
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Last chance to win your VMworld 2015 Ticket from VMTurbo
If you still have not got your VMworld 2015 ticket, it is not yet the time to quit your hunting for a free VMworld ticket. VMTurbo is still offering you the chance to win one of a pair of Two VMworld 2015 tickets through their sweepstakes taking place on July 9th. VMworld is the most…
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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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VMware vSphere Mobile Watchlist features
Did you ever want to manage or monitor your vSphere infrastructure from your mobile device? You are in luck, VMware has a mobile application available for Android and iOS which helps you to manage virtual machines and hosts on your vSphere infrastructure . While this application is optimized for smartphones, it will work on tablets too.…
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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…