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…
Home Lab again…
Few years ago I had my own VMware Laboratory which was quite impressive as it was built on HP Blade servers. Unfortunately I’ve loose it. Right now I decide to build another one on my private gear, as I’m vExpert now I have access to LAB licence which I can use for home purpose. As…
vExpert 2019
Now for the first time I’m honored to be named #vExpert thanks community and #VMware. This award is very important for me. Congratulations to all the vExperts
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Multi-Machine Blueprint – Collect VM from deploy
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…
Change VM Name before deploy
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…
Configure vRealize Automation/vRealize Orchestrator with external IPAM from SolarWind
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…
vRealize Automation – Problem with deleting Endpoint
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…
vRealize Automation 7.5 – First Look
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…
vRealize Lifecycle Manager 1.3 – Install, Configure and Deploy
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…