Anyone who works with vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) daily knows the pain of documentation. Manually creating and updating descriptions for workflows, their inputs, outputs, variables, and logic is time-consuming, error-prone, and often neglected. The result is hundreds of workflows that no one fully understands, making them difficult to maintain, reuse, and develop. But what if we…

Introduction With the release of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, Broadcom is ushering in a new era of private cloud management. This latest platform version, designed for infrastructure administrators and architects, offers a unified and fully automated environment to build, deploy, and operate a private cloud infrastructure efficiently. In this article, based on official documentation…

Introduction When provisioning a new Virtual Machine (VM) for a customer, one of the final, critical steps is delivering the initial access credentials. This moment is fraught with security risks: passwords sent over email, pasted in chat, or left in ticketing systems can be intercepted or accidentally exposed, compromising the security of the new machine…

Introduction to the deploy.sh Script The deploy.sh script is a fundamental tool in the VMware Aria Automation ecosystem (formerly vRealize Automation), responsible for deploying, configuring, and managing all components of this advanced environment. Located in the /opt/scripts/ directory on the Aria Automation virtual machine, it serves as the central orchestration point for the entire system….

Introduction So buttons in forms is quite useful but Aria Automation does not natively support them in their forms. To achieve this, I found a workaround using checkboxes as buttons concatenating two dropdown fields values together. Here in this article, we go through the setup, covering all the form configurations and the JavaScript structure to concatenate. Problem…

I’m very sorry that I haven’t written anything for a long time, but I have a lot of work on my head and other obligations. I hope that this article will make up for the wait and the next ones will be soon. In the world of cloud computing, managing disk partitions and formatting can…

In the modern era of cloud computing, managing and orchestrating containerized applications efficiently is paramount for businesses aiming to stay ahead in the digital transformation curve. VMware’s Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Multicloud (TKGm) emerges as a robust solution, offering a consistent, secure, and fully integrated Kubernetes environment across on-premises, public cloud, and edge environments. However, as…

I would like to inform that the information contained in this article reflects my personal thoughts and understanding of the concepts described. While this knowledge should facilitate comprehension, in some cases it may not be consistent with official VMware information. Therefore, the use of this information should be done with caution and individual consideration Recently,…

After creating prereq vm, setting all parameters and deploying 4 esxi hosts in the first part of the article I started the third part by configuring accessibility as more and more elements were needed, more and more elements needed access between environments, I decided to run routing and NAT on prereq VM. additionally, to make…

following the blow to our already existing environment, I added the vcenter installation part. What we have already achieved so far can be found here at the very beginning, on our prereq VM, we download the tool for downloading images from VMware as well as vCenter itself, due to the fact that vCenter is a…