vRealize Automation

vRealize Automation 8.1 Initial Configuration – Part 3

December 8, 2020July 18, 2022 by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in Install Configure Manage

In previous blogs, we have seen how to deploy vRealize Automation 8.1 and how to configure Active Directory to provide access to users/group on vRealize Automation 8.1 as well as integrating infrastructure and creating blueprint. You can follow below links to visit previous blogs:

In this blog, I will cover how to configure Service Broker and provide catalog Items to users for their consumption. So, let’s get started.

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vRealize Automation 8.1 Initial Configuration – Part 1

November 12, 2020July 21, 2022 by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in Install Configure Manage, vRealize Automation

In last blog, I had covered deployment of vRealize Automation 8.1. You can follow below link to look at deployment. Complete blog series links:

But, true fun begins after deployment while configuring vRealize Automation. There are multiple configuration steps, needs to be followed and sometime they can become overwhelming if coming from vRA 7.x environment. So, i have tried to create guide around initial configuration post deployment. It will cover configuration starting from Identity and Access Management, going to Cloud Assembly and then Service Broker for catalog. I will try to map key terms with their counterparts in vRA 7.x. Without further wait, let’s get started with part 1.

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vRealize Automation 8.1 Deployment – Step by Step

November 8, 2020July 18, 2022 by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in Install Configure Manage

Its been long busy with preparing for certifications and clearing them. I had been updating my labs with latest deployment for VCF, vRealize suite to prepare for certificates and made some deployment guides. Complete blog series links:

In this blog, we will look at Architecture of vRA 8.x, High Level Steps and detailed step by step clustered deployment of vRealize Automation 8.1. Also, we will cover issues encountered during deployment. In next blog, will cover initial configurations of vRealize Automation 8.1

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vRealize Lifecycle Manager – A Step by Step Guide

March 30, 2019March 30, 2019 by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in Install Configure Manage

Finally deployed and configured vRealize lifecycle manager over a week. Imported vRealize automation as well as deployed new components. This blog covers my journey in form of step by step guide on vRealize Lifecycle Manager. So let’s get started.

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Upgrading vRealize Automation 7.3.x Distributed Deployment to 7.5

March 20, 2019March 20, 2019 by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in Install Configure Manage

Good Morning All.

In middle of environment upgrade and integrating new components. Its quite tiring but exciting as well to play around with newest technologies. So, in pursuit of building central patch and upgrade management using vRealize LifeCycle Manager, started with vRA upgrade which was pending for quite a while now. New upgrade process is such a breeze and in this blog i will be covering whole vRA upgrade process step by step. So let’s get started.

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AD Computer Account creation during Machine Provisioning in vRealize Automation using vRO

February 19, 2019 by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in VMware News

I was working with vRealize Automation blueprints when i ran into a very interesting requirement. From vRA 7.1 onward, VMware introduced AD Policies which can automate creation of AD computer account during machine provisioning which is a very helpful feature. After upgrading environment from vRA 6.2 to vRA 7.3, I got requirement to automate AD computer account creation process. But this is where i ran into challenges:

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Enable Automatic Manager Service Failover

February 15, 2019February 19, 2019 by Vinay Aggarwal, posted in VMware News

So yesterday, i had finished with distributed installation of vRA 7.3. I configured tenants, fabric, business groups and created a base blueprint for testing purpose. All was breeze and was working fine. So today i decided to go with failure testing scenarios.

I brought down my Active IaaS Manager service node and hop into vRA console to see if everything is working fine. But alas, i started seeing logs that my Agent cannot connect to manager service. It is down and agent cannot connect to proxy.

Error Log:

Could not connect to the Manager Service. The service might be offline or restarting. If this error persists, verify the that ManagerService.exe is running and that the endpoint, https://<iaasname>/VMPS2Proxy, can be reached.

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