Many time I’ve spent to search how to collect data from multi-machine blueprint. I’ve take a look on many forum on many blogs but withot success so I’ve decided that do this in my own way. So at the beginning. This case will be created for multi machine blueprint which at the Requested phase change the name for VM as I describe in previous article and at the End do collect data. First element is create the REST host in vRO. Login to vRealize Orchestrator and go to the HTTP-REST Configuration. Start workflow and provide specific properties for your vRealize…

vRealize Automation giving us the possibility to use Machine Prefixes to set VM name in deployment process, but what we can do when this is too small functionality. Then we can use vRealize Orchestrator and Event Broker. Event Broker helps us to upgrade functionality vRealize Automation with workflow deployed in vRealize Orchestrator. Event Broker is a solution which run element from workflow based on some conditions defined in vRA In our case we want change VM name before it is deployed. So at the begining we need to creat blueprint and for connection between blueprint and Event Broker we need…

SolarWind Orion IP Address Manager provides integrated DHCP and DNS administration for IPv4 and IPv6. It offer Centralized IP Address management and connection with cloud solution for assign IP to requested VM. To Integrate Orion with vRealize first we need to install this IPAM server on Windows Machine. After installing Windows Server you need to download installer SolarWind offer two version of this installer Online/Offline. We will use Offline installer. When Installer start we have 3 choice for installation In this lab Environment we use Light version with SQL Express which is good for learning purpose. Next we need to…

Hi, recently I found the issue with deleting the Endpoint from vRA 7.4 but also heard that this issue exist in other version so I thought that good to will be describe this behavior and show how I resolved this. I had problem with one of my endpoint which I wanted to delete so basicaly I deleted all Compute Resource, all Fabric Group, all Business Group, Reservation and so on. But still had statement that for my endpoint there is a connection with active or non-active Compute Resources. To resolve issue with vmware technology as always I searched vmware kb…

Couple of days ago VMware release the 7.5 version of their cloud automation product called vRealize Automation. I’ve try to take a look on that version and describe my experience. First time I’ve not deploy this manualy but I’ve used vRealize Lifecycle Manager which also was upgraded to version 2.0. I’ve decide to build one Windows VM and all service put on it. On LCM there was no major changes since version 1.3 so I’ve only deploy vRA After collect all data from LCM I can login to the new fresh and clean verion The first thing which I’ve observed…

Based on VMware site Lifecycle Manager is: “vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager delivers complete lifecycle and content management capabilities for vRealize Suite products. It helps customers accelerate time to value by automating the deployment, upgrades, and configuration, while bringing DevOps principles to the management of vRealize Suite content.” So it looks like good tool for Day 0 operations and in merging with other solution like vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Operations Manager for Day 2 as well. Let’s take a look on that tool. Deployment First we need to deploy the ova file as most of the VMware solutions. The deployment…

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