Notes from a Virtualization Consultant
I was trying to add a Docker hosts as a endpoint in vRealize Automation Code Stream, and was looking at the Blog VMware has published about this, but this was lacking some information, see the blog here. I a later version of vRA, the form for the creating the Docker endpoint got some extra input,…
VMware has Released vRealize Automation 8.8.1 and vRealize Orchestrator 8.8.1 From this version of this release and forward the release notes for VMware Cloud Automation and vRealize Automation will be the same, where there just will be notes for things that is only for one of the releases. vRealize Automation 8.8.1 What’s new: Ability to…
VMware has released Cloud Foundation 4.4.1 and Cloud Foundation 4.4.1 on Dell EMC VxRail. This is maintenance release that updates the BOM. At the moment, the download can be a little hard to find, since there are a bug on the VMware download page. NOTE: The download page has been fixed. See the full release…
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…
I was looking into, if you could enable Azure AD Multi Factor Authentication on VMware vRealize Automation, have not found anything abount if this is supported or not. Before enabling this make sure you have snapshots of the VMware Identity Manager (vIDM), and that you have granted the you have add you AD admin account…
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…
If you are using properties to use a key/value pair, this are not sorted, so they may show up randomly, and that is not pretty. In this example I create a properties variable and puts in some countries and there short name, so I want to show the country’s full name and get the short…
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…
VMware has released VMware vRealize Network Insight 6.5. What’s new: VMware NSX-T Monitoring and Troubleshooting Supports VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer for VMs in the vRealize Network Insight on-premises and VMware Cloud deployments. Introduces built-in and enforced protection mechanism to disable NetFlow collection on Distributed Virtual Port groups where VMware NSX-T edges are connected. Network…
I was looking into using vCenter Content Librari to store Templates for deployment in vRealize Automation Cloud Tempates (Blueprints). There are 2 ways to store a Template in vCenter 7 Content Library. They can be converted to OVA/OVF templates or stored as VM Templates. I wanted to use the new VM Templates method, but I…