Overview Today I thought I'd get back to vRealize Automation 8, in particular leveraging extensibility. Previously I have shown some examples of breaking out of the provisioning lifecycle to perform some external operations (CMDB updates etc.) however this time I want to look at how you can augment the provisioning process with information from external … Continue reading vRealize Automation – Customizing IP Assignments with vRO
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vRealize Automation 7 to 8 Migration Assessment
vRealize Automation 8 comes with significant changes to architecture, constructs and concepts from vRA 7.x and previous. For those customers who are thinking about migrating a 7.5+ based system to 8.x, an assessment is vital to verify how ready you are to head in this direction and the configuration you will likely need to address. … Continue reading vRealize Automation 7 to 8 Migration Assessment
vRealize Automation 8 – Users and Groups
Granting access to vRealize Automation 8 is a completely different process to vRealize Automation 7.x. This is partly due to the required use of an external VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) component and being based on the completely different code base from vRealize Automation Cloud (i.e. the SaaS offering). Note: product names are likely to change … Continue reading vRealize Automation 8 – Users and Groups
Deploying vRealize Automation 8
This article is going to cover the basics in deploying vRealize Automation 8.0 using the easy installer. This is an approach which we (VMware) have used before for other applications where the install is delivered as a downloadable ISO which you can mount and run from a desktop machine. This installer within the ISO deploys … Continue reading Deploying vRealize Automation 8
Cloud Assembly – Targetting a Specific vRO Instance
The last few deployment tests that I have run in Cloud Assembly have resulted in deployment failures, not because there is anything wrong with the blueprint in question but because the extensibility has failed. Normally I would put this down to mistakes in coding or bad error handling but in this case my workflow is … Continue reading Cloud Assembly – Targetting a Specific vRO Instance
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