I work with alot of customers in VMware from small to big multi-nationals and everything in-between. One of my current large retail customers has been developing a business group onboarding service for vRealize Automation 7.5 which involves automating: Active Directory group creation and population modification of the vRA directory configuration directory synchronisation business group creation … Continue reading vRealize Automation – Adding Groups to an Existing Identity Directory using vRO
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Cloud and On-Prem
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 5)
5This is the fifth article from a series covering the use of vRSLCM with source control. Links to the other articles in the series can be found at the bottom of the page. In part 4 of this series I covered capturing and testing content with vRLSCM as well as placing that content under source … Continue reading vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 5)
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 4)
This is the fourth article from a series covering the use of vRSLCM with source control. Links to the other articles in the series can be found at the bottom of the page. In part 3 of this series of articles I covered adding the endpoints into vRSLCM and getting ready for content capture and … Continue reading vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 4)
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 3)
This is the third article from a series covering the use of vRSLCM with source control. Links to the other articles in the series can be found at the bottom of the page. In part 2 of this series of articles I covered setting up Gitlab with users, groups and projects together with granting API … Continue reading vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 3)
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 2)
This is the second article from a series covering the use of vRSLCM with source control. Links to the other articles in the series can be found at the bottom of the page. In part 1 of this series of articles we covered installing Gitlab onto a server, in my case a CentOS 7 virtual … Continue reading vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 2)
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 1)
This is the first article from a series covering the use of vRSLCM with source control. Links to the other articles in the series can be found at the bottom of the page. 1. vRSLCM and Source Control Before we can do anything with source control and vRSLCM we need to have something that will … Continue reading vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Content Source Control with Gitlab (Part 1)
vRealize Automation – External Identity Management
This article came out of a need to test authentication options other than the embedded identity manager that comes within vRA 7.x. The premise was that embedded vIDM did not offer enough control for customising domain controller selection when using Integrated Windows Authentication (we'll save this for another article, suffice to say we needed to … Continue reading vRealize Automation – External Identity Management
vRealize Automation – Forest Trusts
This article is going to cover an issue I came across when testing out an authentication scenario with vRA 7.5 for one of my customers. The scenario was as follows. My customer currently uses a single forest and single domain where vRA currently resides and leverages Active Directory IWA authentication using the embedded vIDM. Before … Continue reading vRealize Automation – Forest Trusts
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Deleting Requests
This question of how to delete requests that are stuck within vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager has come up a few times, right from version 1.x to the now current version 2.0 (as of time of writing). Quite simply, the product GUI does not offer a way to do this however you can delete requests if … Continue reading vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Deleting Requests
vRealize Automation – Recovering an Access Policy
This article comes from a situation I managed to get my lab environment into when I was not paying proper attention to the configuration changes I was making (doing several things at once never works out well!). I was testing out Kerberos authentication in vRA 7.5 and managed to lock ALL users out of authenticating … Continue reading vRealize Automation – Recovering an Access Policy
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