This article is probably late coming but I thought it was still worthwhile to write given that a large number of customers are still on early 7.x releases (some on 6.2.x) of vRA and unlikely to be moving to 8.x any time in the immediate future. For those customers it is possible to move to … Continue reading vRealize Automation – 7.x Migration
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vRealize Automation – Changing Hostnames
In this article I am going to cover an issue one of my customers was facing with their vRA 7.5 platform with regards to appliance hostnames and how we went about solving it. The Back Story The vRA 7.5 stack had been deployed (no vRSLCM) using the out of the box GUI installer based on … Continue reading vRealize Automation – Changing Hostnames
vRealize Automation – Adding Groups to an Existing Identity Directory using vRO
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
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 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
vRealize Automation with NSX-V Micro-Segmentation (part 3)
This is the third installment in a series of articles for micro-segmentation with vRA and NSX-V. The previous articles in the series can be found here: Part 1 Part 2 This article wasn't going to be written as my mini series was complete on this topic however I discovered an issue with my configuration and … Continue reading vRealize Automation with NSX-V Micro-Segmentation (part 3)
vRealize Automation with NSX-V Micro-Segmentation (part 2)
This article follows on from a previous micro-segmentation article (Part 1) and expands its use case a little bit further. In part 1 we had a very simple 3 tier application with a single machine in each tier as shown in this diagram. To help increase the scalability and availability of the application, our use … Continue reading vRealize Automation with NSX-V Micro-Segmentation (part 2)
vRealize Automation with NSX-V Micro-Segmentation (part 1)
This article is as much a reminder for me as it is for you. Sometimes when you don't cover a particular topic for a while it's a good idea just to sit down and play with technology, especially when there are new product versions to consider. The Scenario The scenario for this article is as … Continue reading vRealize Automation with NSX-V Micro-Segmentation (part 1)
vRealize Automation – NAT NSX Edge Internal Error
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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