This short post covers an issue I came across the other day when testing out deploying a vRA blueprint that was configured with an "On-Demand NAT Network". Every time I tried to use the blueprint it would fail halfway through with the following error. No data for field segment: Current field-id [address], current field path … Continue reading vRealize Automation – NAT NSX Edge Internal Error
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vRA 7.5 Deployed with vRSLCM 2.0 – The Issue with Self Signed Certificates
This article covers an issue that a few people have reported internally within VMware when deploying new instances of vRA 7.5 using vRSLCM 2.0 (pre patch 1). The issue relates to the vSphere Proxy Agent failing to connect back to vRA due to the proxy agent encountering a certificate trust error. In this example, the … Continue reading vRA 7.5 Deployed with vRSLCM 2.0 – The Issue with Self Signed Certificates
vRealize Automation 7.5 – Quick Overview
Now that VMworld 2018 has passed (at least for the US) screenshots of vRA 7.5 are out in the wild so I can take a few minutes here to cover some of the changes/additions since vRA 7.4. The UI VMware products are being aligned to the Clarity UI design to give a consistent look and … Continue reading vRealize Automation 7.5 – Quick Overview
The Missing Icons…
My service provider customer has based their new platform on vRA 7.2. Yes 7.3 has been out for a while but due to the significant amount of development that has been done on this platform there has been resistance to perform point release upgrades in case any of the custom service development works stops functioning … Continue reading The Missing Icons…
NSX Provisioned Objects in vRA Missing Details
This issue caught me out a few days ago. Having designed and coded automation and orchestration services for one of the UK's largest service providers for the last year I was somewhat surprised to see many of my deployed NSX test objects (NSX virtual servers, logical networks etc.) become unusable overnight from within the vRA … Continue reading NSX Provisioned Objects in vRA Missing Details
Removing Orphaned vRA Objects from 7.x
There are several published methods for removing objects that have become stuck in vRA however these are normally related to virtual machines experiencing some sort of infrastructure failure part way through deployment, resulting in them being stuck in one of the lifecycle states. This blog article relates to those objects (including all non-vm objects) that … Continue reading Removing Orphaned vRA Objects from 7.x
Issues with vRA 7.2 to 7.3 Upgrade
As part of my day to day job I get to experience some weird and wonderful issues, some product related and some customer. In this particular case it was a bit of both. I was allocated several days to perform an in-place point release upgrade of an existing customer platform which on the face of … Continue reading Issues with vRA 7.2 to 7.3 Upgrade
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