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vRealize Automation 7.3 what’s new?
vRealize Automation 7.3 has been released today with tons of new capabilities and features (>20 Spotlight Features). In this post, I will highlight several of these new enhancements to introduce you to what you can get by upgrading to vRA 7.3. I hope this will help you find out if the features you are looking…
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vRealize Automation 7 Property Dictionary Relationship
In the past I have documented how to do vCloud Automation 6.x Property Dictionay and Property Dictionary relationship in a post that was well recieved and got quite popular which can be found at: vCAC 6 Property Dictionary Relationship. I have meant to do the same for vRA 7 Property Dictionary Relationship for sometime as…
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How to Configure vRealize Automation 7.x Management pack in vRealize Operations Manager
The installation of vRealize Operations Manager Management Pack for vRealize Automation is a popular ask due to the benefit of in depth monitoring of vRA offered by vROPs. The vRealize Automation Management Pack for vRealize Operations Manager is very quick to configure as long you know the steps and permissions required. In this post, I…
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vRA Installation Error: Another instance of the component is already installed on this server.
While I have been installing vRA lately as a part of a VMware Validated Design engagement using the Automated Deployment Tool, my vRA deployment tool failed as the DBA has not provided the right permissions on the SQL box required to install vRA. The error received at that moment was: “Error occurred while executing SQL…
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F5 load balancer common misconfigurations for vRA 7 Distributed setup
Working with several customers to build vRealize Automation 7.x in production environment has exposed me to many vRA Distributed installs that involved the use of Load Balancers. There seems common mistakes that customers fall for when configuring load balancers for vRA 7.x distributed environments that cause the installation to fail or the setup not to…
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vRA 7.2 what’s new?
vRealize Automation 7.2 which was promised at VMworld to enhance ease of use with Out-of-The-Box support for ServiceNow, Azure, and Containers. has just been released today as promised in VMworld. You can download it at: vRealization Automation 7.2 download link. This article highlight few of the major improvements introduced with vRA 7.2. Azure Endpoint While Amazon…
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vRealize Automation 7.x F5 Load balancer Configuration
This week I had to work with a customer who used F5 to load balance their vRA Distributed environment, and it has proven that just a small change from recommended configuration can break your full setup. For this reason, I have decided to document the full F5 load balancer configuration on this page. This post…
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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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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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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…