vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Extending Pipelines

I've been asked to talk about content management and extensibility using vRSLCM at an upcoming customer event so as part of the preparation I decided to mock up some scenarios.  This article will cover one of these scenarios and deals with content pipelines and extensibility. What You Should Not Do Before we dive into configuration … Continue reading vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager – Extending Pipelines

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 Operations – Management Pack for vRealize Orchestrator

This article will walk you through getting the latest version of the "Management Pack for vROPs" installed and working, and get you on your journey to expanding out the functionality within vRealize Operations. What Is It? The management pack is a software update for vROPs that does several things including: Allowing visibility into vRO so … Continue reading vRealize Operations – Management Pack for vRealize Orchestrator

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