VCF Automation: Understanding the Difference Between All-Apps and VM-Apps
Automation in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) plays a central role in enabling consistent, repeatable infrastructure and application deployments. As environments evolve toward more modern application architectures, VMware has introduced different automation models to support both traditional virtual machine workloads and modern application stacks. Two key deployment models in VCF Automation are All-Apps and VM-Apps. Understanding…
VMware Holodeck 9.0.2
If you want to play around with VMware Cloud Foundation, the perfect place is to use Holodeck. Note: This requires a subscription to use this, the Holodeck is free, but the binaries, that is used for the deployment of VCF requires a download token that has permissions to download VCF binaries. This is a complete…
Aria Automation Cloud Template Sample 1
I have a custom that needed to have a Cloud template where it was possible to use both automatic and static IP assignment for the network on the deployment of VM’s The requirements for this is to configured Network Profiles and also have configured IP Ranges on the networks. The static Assigned address needs to…
Aria Automation and REGEX
We can use REGEX in the Cloud Template or in the forms in the Service Broker. Where you prefer to do it, depends on where you want to check, if you put this into the Cloud Template, this will be enforced in the Service Broker and require you to update the Cloud Template to change…
VMware vRealize Automation 8.11.2 Released
VMware has released vRealize Automation 8.11.2 and vRealize Orchestrator 8.11.2. vRealize Automation 8.11.2 What’s new: See the full release notes here. vRealize Orchestrator 8.11.2 What’s new: See the full release notes here.
VMware vRealize Automation API and Custom Roles
I was doing some management Custom Roles in vRA and I wanted to do this through the REST API, but I could not find anything in the swagger. I found in the release notes for version 8.5 that this is a special URL, for getting this. But I found that you also easy find them…
VMware vRA/vRO User interaction
With VMware vRealize Automation they added support for using vRO “User Interactions” in vRO workflows. I have used this in vRA version 7.x before and hade some use-cases for this. With vRealize Automation 8.10 this was introduced, and I had some problem getting it to work like it did in version 7.x. I had a…
VMware vRealize Automation 8.11.1 Released
VMware has released VMware vRealize Automation 8.11.1, VMware vRealize Automation Saltstack Config 8.11.1 and VMware vRealize Orchestrator 8.11.1 This version fixes one of the thing I have been requesting for at long time, it’s now possible to customize mail notification from vRA. VMware vRealize Automation 8.11.1 / VMware vRealize Automation Saltstack Config 8.11.1 What’s new:…
VMware vRealize Automation 8.11 Released
VMware has released vRealize Automation 8.11, vRealize Automation SaltStack Config 8.11 and vRealize Orchestrator 8.11. vRealize Automation 8.11 / vRealize Automation SaltStack Config 8.11 What’s new: resolved Issues: Seethe full release notes for more informations here. vRealize Orchestrator 8.11 This is a maintenance release that fixes some problems and other maintenance.
vRSLCM and certificate update on the vIDM getting error: LCMVRAVACONFIG590008
I was updating the certificate on a vIDM from vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) in my lab , but it did not work as expected, when it came to updating the authentication on the vRealize Automation n(vRA) it return error LCMVRAVACONFIG590008. I could not find any error with the new certificate so this was strange,…