VMworld 2015 – Cloud Automation Sessions and Hands on Labs
VMworld 2015 – Cloud Automation Sessions and Hands on Labs Are you going to be at VMworld 2015 in San Francisco? There is less than a month to start planning which sessions you want to attend and...
View ArticleWhat happens to the Machine record in the vRealize Automation/IaaS database...
What happens to the Machine record in the vRealize Automation/IaaS database following a destroy action? Is the machine record retained or do all records pertaining to the machine get deleted? Since...
View ArticlevRealize Automation machine life cycle assest record management
I have a two part question:1. When a machine is destroyed from vRA what happens to the database record? I'm thinking since vRA is not a true CMDB that you would have to leverage a WF stub to call an...
View ArticlevCenter SSO HA
Hi,anyone using the vCenter SSO in HA ?, I followed the SSO deployment guide for vRA but the automatic failover does not work, if I shutdown on of the nodes we start to get exception errors creating...
View ArticlevRA 6.2.2 - Scripting Resource Usage Calculation?
Is there a programmatical\scriptable way (by using vRO) to do the resource usage calculation, such as it is done in the Chargeback Portlet? What I am looking for is something similar to what can be...
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vCAC connection with Amazon AWS doesn't pull computer resources
I am trying to set up connection to AWS in vCAC. I followed the steps outlined here. I added credentials and endpoint, then clicked on "Data Collection" option for the endpoint. I get the data...
View ArticleDecommissiong a VM and also remove its reserved resources from vRA
Hi, I have created a service blueprint to power off the VM and delete it from the vCenter. The workflow works fine, but it does not seem to released the resources from vRA. So it said, the VM has...
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vRA 6.2 not connecting to external Postgres; Postgres Appliance showing...
This is getting to be the longest lab installation ever. vRA CAFE appliance is no longer connecting to Postgres (it was previously) "NOT Connected: Error connecting database on...
View ArticleLinux Guest Agent not working properly
Attempting to build out my first linux template for vCAC but it doesn't seem to be running any scripts. The guest agent constantly puts out the below error message. I'm trying to run a basic file that...
View ArticleWhy put Model Manager on IaaS Web instead of IaaS Management?
I have implemented vCAC 5.2 and vCAC 6.0.1. In each case the location of the Model Manager was different (Manager vs. Web), but in both cases I was working with PSO. I am also reading the documentation...
View ArticleHow make a blueprint available to more than one service catalog
As the title suggests I would like to make blueprints available to more than one service catalog. When I look at catalog items it looks like only a single service is selectable in the drop-box. I...
View ArticleBENEFITs OF VRA AND PUPPET LABS INTEGRATION
What are the benefits of integration of vRA with puppet labs other than single interface (unified portal)
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Bulk import issues
I'm trying to bulk import from an old 6.0.1 build to a new 6.1 with a distributed install. When I try to generate my csv, the default values(business group, owner, blueprint) are grayed out....
View ArticleGet datacenter or resource pool by using vRO script
I'm currently building a service blueprint but don't want the user to have to enter resource pool or folder information. How do I retrieve objects such as a datacenter or resource pool using the vRO...
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Unable to add a new proxy agent
Hello, I'am trying to add a new vsphere proxy agent in vRA and i'm facing some issues. I followed the vmware documentation and also several comments on various blogs (like Adding Additional vCenter...
View ArticlevRAAPIClient - vRA API Client In python
Just thought I'd post this here - it's an client for the Consumer API of vRA (I would assume this has been done a million times already). This was written to work with vRA 6.1 - I've not had chance to...
View ArticleSet the default business group / view for users logging in to the vRA portal...
Is there any way we can change which view users see by default when opening up the Items and catalog panes in the vRA portal?Our vRA implementation is not intended to service individual developers or...
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EVALExperience - vRealize Automation/vCloud
I just joined the VMUG Advantage program so I could get the benefits of the EVALExperience. One of the things I was excited for, was the vCloud Suite evaluation. I assumed it would have vCloud and...
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