VMware has released VMware vRealize Automation 8.11.0 as of Jan 2023. With this release, VMware has provided several enhancements and new Features. New Features New Consume tab This feature streamlines the vRealize Automation Service Broker user experience. Catalogs, resources, and supervisor namespaces (part of Cloud Consumption Interface which is currently under Initial Availability only in … Continue reading vRealize Automation 8.11.0 What’s New
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What’s new in VMware vRealize Automation 8.10.0
VMware has released VMware vRealize Automation 8.10 as of October 2022. With this release, VMware has provided several enhancements and new Features. New Features Cloud Guardrails (vRA Cloud Only) - Guided SetupA guided setup is now included in Guardrails. This feature takes you through guided steps to onboard the cloud environments into Guardrails and enforce … Continue reading What’s new in VMware vRealize Automation 8.10.0
vRealize Automation 8 Code Stream- Add Code Stream pipelines to the Service Broker catalog
As a service administrator, you can make Code Stream pipelines available in the Service Broker catalog by adding a Code Stream content source and sharing the pipelines. The pipelines are the continuous integration and delivery model of your software release process. Prerequisites: Verify that the pipelines that you are importing are enabled and released in Code Stream before you import it. … Continue reading vRealize Automation 8 Code Stream- Add Code Stream pipelines to the Service Broker catalog
vRealize Automation 8 Code Stream- Integrate Jenkins as Endpoint and create CI/CD Job
I got a use case to run Jenkins jobs through vRA code stream and publish it as a cataloge item. In this post I'll discuss about Code Stream and how to integrate Jenkins as a Endpoint in Code Stream and create a Pipeline. Code Stream provides a Jenkins plug-in, which triggers Jenkins jobs that build and … Continue reading vRealize Automation 8 Code Stream- Integrate Jenkins as Endpoint and create CI/CD Job
What’s New in vRealize Automation 8.6
Today I will discuss about the new capability and enhancement of vRealize Automation 8.6. The new vRealize Automation 8.6 platform is design to self-service clouds, multi-cloud automation with governance and DevOps based management and enhance security, IT agility, productivity and efficiency so that you plan and prepare your business for the future. The many benefits … Continue reading What’s New in vRealize Automation 8.6
How to configure Multiple vm Instance per request in vRA 8.x
I got a use case to deploy multiple vm instances in single catalog request, this feature is by default available in vRA 7.6 blueprint and easily visible but in vRA8 it's not an eye catcher. Today I will demonstrate how to configure your catalog item by giving your customer a choice to choose number of … Continue reading How to configure Multiple vm Instance per request in vRA 8.x
PowerShell for Action Based Extensibility (ABX) in vRealize Automation 8
In addition to Python and NodeJS, vRealize Automation 8 also supports PowerShell as a scripting language for writing Action Based Extensibility (ABX). This will allow administrators who have already knowledge of PowerShell as a scripting language to use their skills to quickly develop automation for the lifecycle of their Deployments. Here, in this post I … Continue reading PowerShell for Action Based Extensibility (ABX) in vRealize Automation 8
vRealize Automation Migration from 7.6 to 8.2
I was planning to test the Migration Assistant feature in vRA 8.x and got some free time to migrate vRA 7.6 to vRA 8.2 in my lab, it was great learning and thought to capture my experience for larger audience. There is an official guide, "vRealize Automation 8 Transition Guide". So will start with the … Continue reading vRealize Automation Migration from 7.6 to 8.2
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Migration from 2.x to 8.0.1
I got an opportunity to migrate my vRLCM 2.x to vRLCM 8.0.1, I enjoyed doing this in the lab and thought to capture the procedure. The migration requires few inputs, such as legacy vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager hostname, username, password, and SSH password. There are few prerequisites as well. Prerequisites: Verify that you have vRealize … Continue reading vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Migration from 2.x to 8.0.1
Create Approval, Day-2 Actions and Lease policies in vRA 8.2
Providing a self-service catalog can be a great way to allow users in an organization to quickly get applications and services they need. However, when a catalog is presented to an organization it is important that there are some guardrails and governance around those requests from the catalog. Policies such as "Lease Times" help by … Continue reading Create Approval, Day-2 Actions and Lease policies in vRA 8.2
Publish a blueprint as Catalog items in vRA 8.x
In this post I will demonstrate how to publish a blueprint as a catalog items in vRA 8.2. A catalog item is a published blueprint that you can entitle to users. So, let's get started. 1. login to vRA portal. 2. Go to Cloud Assembly > Design > Cloud Template and select the Blueprint that … Continue reading Publish a blueprint as Catalog items in vRA 8.x
vRealize Automation 8.x-Blueprint Development and Deployment
Today I am going to demonstrate the process to create and deploy blueprint in vRA 8.x. There are multiple steps to follow before your blueprint is ready to consume. vRealize Automation Cloud Assembly is a blueprint development and deployment service. Below are the steps we are going to perform to build our first blueprint and … Continue reading vRealize Automation 8.x-Blueprint Development and Deployment
Configure vRealize Orchestrator Client roles in vRealize Automation 8.x
In this post we will discuss about vRealize Orchestrator service roles, what features of the embedded vRealize Orchestrator Client users can access. There are two types of service Roles. Administrator: Can access all vRealize Orchestrator Client features and content, including the content created by specific groups. Responsible for setting user roles, creating and deleting … Continue reading Configure vRealize Orchestrator Client roles in vRealize Automation 8.x
Configure GitLab integration in vRealize Automation 8.1 and Sync vRA Blueprint
vRealize Automation Cloud Assembly supports integration with GitLab and GitHub repositories so that you can manage blueprints and action scripts under source control. In the post I'll demonstrate steps to integrate GitLab and sync vRA Blueprints. Let's get started.. We must have an appropriate local Git repository configured with access to set up Git integration … Continue reading Configure GitLab integration in vRealize Automation 8.1 and Sync vRA Blueprint
vRealize Automation 8.1 – vRO for Multi Tenancy
The vRealize Orchestrator concept for vRA 8.1 has been changed completely. The default tenant will have the embedded vRO integrated OOTB and the embedded vRO does not create new tenants means any additional tenants will not have any pre-registered vRO integration. As you can see below master tenant has embedded-vRO but our tenant, Tenant1 has … Continue reading vRealize Automation 8.1 – vRO for Multi Tenancy
Deployment of vRealize Automation 8.1 – Multi Tenancy
In today's topic we are going to cover Multi Tenancy setup. Multi-tenancy in vRA 8.1 is very different from what it was in vRA 7. In 8.1, the multi-tenancy is based on domain names, and not URLs as it was before. vRealize Automation enables customer IT providers, to set up multiple tenants, or organizations, within … Continue reading Deployment of vRealize Automation 8.1 – Multi Tenancy
Deployment of vRealize Automation 8.1 – Integrate Directory Services
vRealize Automation allows you to integrate active directory & other directories for authentication & user access in vRA portals. In this post we will learn how to integrate your enterprise directory with VMware Identity Manager to sync users and groups to the VMware Identity Manager service. Starting from vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.0, you can … Continue reading Deployment of vRealize Automation 8.1 – Integrate Directory Services
Deployment of vRealize Automation 8.1 – Launch QuickStart
With the release of vRA 8 VMware added a "Launch QuickStart" option to helps, the cloud administrator, set up on-premises vCentre Server so that we can provision resources using vRealize Automation, populate the self-service catalog, and deploy our first blueprint to vSphere instance. This makes the setup and consumption of vCenter into vRA much easier … Continue reading Deployment of vRealize Automation 8.1 – Launch QuickStart
Deployment of vRealize Automation 8.1
The architecture of vRA 8 has been completely change from what it was till 7.6. The vRealize Automation 8.1 runs on Photon OS, with a broadly leveraged microservices architecture using Kubernetes and Docker. vRA is comprised of numerous services, running in separate containers, with a PostgreSQL database per container, RabbitMQ serves as the message broker. … Continue reading Deployment of vRealize Automation 8.1
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