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
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
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
How to move vRealize Automation 7.x IaaS SQL database to new server
Recently I came across a situation where I have to move my IaaS SQL database connection to a new server. In this post we will see the steps to change the SQL database connection in vRealize Automation. So, let's get start. I have my existing SQL database server hosted on prem-vra-db01, now I have built … Continue reading How to move vRealize Automation 7.x IaaS SQL database to new server
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
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
vRealize Automation 7.4 to 7.6 Upgrade through vRSLCM
Recently I got a change to upgrade vRealize Automation from 7.4 to 7.6 through vRealize Lifecycle Manager 2.1. In this post I'll demonstrate steps to upgrade vRealize Automation 7.4 to 7.6. So, let's get started. There are few pre-requisites to keep in mind before upgrading the environment. Add product Binaries to vRealize Suit Lifecycle Manager. … Continue reading vRealize Automation 7.4 to 7.6 Upgrade through vRSLCM
vRealize Automation 7.6 Part 3: Tenant & Users Initial configuration
In the previous posts we did installation & configuration of vRealize Automation 7.6 Small & Medium (with HA). We also verified that installation was successful, and we were able to login to vRA console page. In this post we will configure initial tenant configuration and domain user integration in vRA. Log in to vRA console … Continue reading vRealize Automation 7.6 Part 3: Tenant & Users Initial configuration