Trusting Self Issued Certificates from vRSLCM
If you do not use certificate from a internal Certificate Authority (CA) for the products deployed by the vRealize Suite Life Cycle Manager, you normally have to accept that this is an insecure connection in the Browser. I think it’s a bad thing to learn users/admins to do this in the browser, because then they…
VMware vRealize Suite 8.8.2 Released
VMware has released vRelease Suite 8.8.2, that is this products: vRealize Automation 8.8.2/vRealize Automation SaltStack Config 8.8.2 vRealize Log Insight 8.8.2 vRealize Orchestrator 8.8.2 vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.8.2 vRealize Network Insight 6.7.0 vRealize Automation 8.8.2/vRealize Automation SaltStack Config 8.8.2 What’s new: Cloud Guardrails (vRA Cloud Only) Template code is now fully reflected in the…
VMware vRealize Suite 8.8.0 Released
VMware has released vRealize Automation 8.8.0, vRealize Automation SaltStack Config 8.8.0, vRealize Orchestrator 8.8.0, vRealize Log Insight 8.8.0, vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.8.0 and vRealize Operations 8.6.3. vRealize Automation 8.8.0/vRealize Automation SaltStack Config 8.8.0 This release finally fixes the problem with “change owner” on a deployment, so you don’t have to add users explicitly to…
VMware vRealize Automation 8.7.0 Released
VMware has released vRealize Automation 8.7.0 and vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.7.0. vRealize Automation 8.7.0 What’s new: Evolution of the ABX On Prem engine ABX On Prem now uses the next generation On Prem engine, which has advanced performance and scalability. The New FaaS is much faster, fixes numerous issues with memory limits, and introduces…
VMware vRealize Automation 8.6.2 and more Released
VMware has released vRealize Automation 8.6.2, vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.6.2 and VMware Identity Manager 3.3.6. vRealize Automation 8.6.2 includes one of my the features request, that I have been asking for, for some time, this is that Approvals policies now can be assign to “AD groups”. vRealize Automation 8.6.2 this also includes vRealize Automation…
vRealize Automation 8.4.1 and Other Released
VMware has released vRealize Automation 8.4.1. vRealize Automation Saltstack 8.4.1, vRealize Orchestrator 8.4.1 and vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.4.1. vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.4.1 This is a bug fixing version and it give support for vRealize Automation 8.4.1 and vRealize Automation Saltstack 8.4.1. See the release notes here. vRealize Automation 8.4.1 and vRealize Automation Saltstack…
Vertical Scale Up of a vIDM 3.3.4
With the latest version of vRealize Suite Life Cycle Manager (vRSLCM) it’s possible to do vertical scale of more of the products. One of my customer wanted to do a vertical scale of there vIDM version 3.3.4, but it that failed wit error code: LCMVIDM72239 in stage 9 “Disk Partition…..”. It turned out that the…
VMware vRealize Suite 8.4 Released
VMware has released vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.4, vRealize Automation 8.4, vRealize Automation Saltstack 8.4, vRealize Operations 8.4, vRealize Log Insight 8.4, vRealize Orchestrator 8.4 and vRealize Network Insight 6.2. vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.4 What’s new: VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.4.0 Easy Installer support vRealize Automation Salt Stack Config Standalone support VMware Identity…
Elasticsearch Fails to Start after vIDM Upgrade
I have just been doing a upgrade of VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) 3.3.3 to 3.3.4 from the vRealize Suite Life Cycle Manager (vRSLCM) 8.3. After the upgrade the vIDM appliance from vRSLCM it failed after a long wait, looking at the vIDM machine i could see that the Elasticsearch service did not run. After reverting…
VMware vRSLCM certificate manager
This blog is primary a reminder to myself, on how to create the certificate to be used in the vRSLCM. To create a certificate file for the certificate locker in the vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. I uses the VMware certificate templates created for vSphere, as per this KB. I create a CSR in the VMware…