Recently, I devoted all the time to exploring the latest release of vReazlize, namely version 8. In my opinion, an interesting project related to this product is being created, but not for long. However, this article will still be about version 7.x. Every day, each of us must check whether vRA is working, whether we…
vRA API – Reservation Policy, Reservation and Network Profile
In daily basis I’m working as a build engineer and we required from customer few details about Build Infra, so I’ve create a document for this with description and required information from Build perspective and simple automation script for ReservationPolicy, Reservation and Network Profiles as this taking more time in build phase then other tasks….
K8s Cluster from PKS using vRealize Automation
In my previous post I’ve described how to create Kubernetes cluster manually, today I wanna show you how to do this using PKS and vRealize. PKS or actually VMware Enterprise PKS formerly known as Pivotal Container Service it is a product which simplify deploy K8s cluster. However, before we start creating clusters, we must prepare…
K8s Cluster
In my life from one day to another I’m looking for a new and interesting technologies which I can build test and learn. Now is the time to test the kubernetes cluster. K8s because this is called by some is not some new discovery, however, finds more and more recognition among various sysadmin / cloud…
Upgrade from vRA 7.3.1 to 7.6 via LCM 2.1
Procedures of upgrade environment is many, I’ve decide to use vRealize Lifecycle Manager in version 2.1. Firstly my environment was created manually in small deployment so I need it in LCM to not deploy another one and show procedure on it. I’ve started with creating environment in LCM as an Import, procedure require from us…
CloudForms with vSphere
In my daily work I am dealing with vRealize but curiosity about other solutions has directed me to CloudForms provided by RedHat Based on RedHat web page Red Hat® CloudForms® is an infrastructure management platform that allows IT departments to control users’ self-service abilities to provision, manage, and ensure compliance across virtual machines and private…
Tasks for Private HoL
LAB-01 ESXi Installation. Login to your Jump-Host. Run web browser and open vCenter address Login to vCenter Provide Credentials Go to Host and Clusters Expand vCenter -> Datacenter -> Cluster -> vApp -> Resource Pool Right Click on Powered Off VM -> Edit Settings Find CD/DVD Drive and change it to Datastore ISO On Datastore…
Private HoL for vSphere using vRealize Automation v.1.0
VMware Hands on Lab are impressive but what if we wanna create our own with different configuration ? One day in my head born this idea. Create own HoL using vRealize Automation. As I had some idea how this should be looks like because I’ve create taska for students so I’ve start preparing Blueprint Configuration…
Container from Catalog
In this article I want describe how to prepare environment for deploy container by one click from catalog First step is to create VM on which we start docker engine. I’ve decided to use PhotonOS which is delivered by VMware in ova file. So I’ve deploy VM and change it to template. After Data collection…
vRealize Automation 7.x – preCheck
In my daily work, I am an SME responsible for building infrastructure based on vRealize without using vRealize LCM. To avoid wasting time checking the servers provided by other teams, I decided to create a simple script that based on the official requirements of the VMware documentation sets the required parameters. Currently, the script is…