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 have the option of deployment or in a moment we can expect P1 in our queue. To make checking easier, a very simple script based on Python and REST API has been created which checks all our services. The Scrips is checking if VM is…

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. To use vRA-API you need infomation in DCD-Build document and change vRA-API from txt to py as my blog not allow attach Python files.

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 the infrastructure Ops Manager For deploy OPS manager we are using OVA provided on Pivotal web page https://network.pivotal.io/products/ops-manager we have there many images but in this case we download Ops for vsphere The deployment process is quite easy only one thing we should remember to…

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 solutions So let’s start Manual Manual deployment of K8s cluster is not so hard. We need 3 VM which has at least 2vCPU. In my lab I’ve namedthem and I’ve created correct DNS records in AD on all VM I’ve also checked communication between our…

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 to fill few details Importing a small environment takes a few minutes and as a result of this procedure we are getting all information in LCM from our vRA 7.3 Now we can proceed with Upgrade procedure but the good behaviour is to take a…

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 clouds. so let’s do the implementation and set up a VM with CloudForms on our vCenter Deployment CloudForms is delivered in ova, so deployment from vCenter is not difficult and does not require any configuration Configuration after starting the machine and logging in with the…

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 in folder find ISO click on them and click OK click on Connect at Power On and click OK Power On this VM. Click on Action -> Power -> Power On And Confirm Power On on vApp Launch Remote Console On Welcome Screen press Enter…

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 1 x Windows Jump Host1 x Share with NFS share and two iSCSI target1 x Clear VM for installation of ESXi1 x VM with installed ESXi1 x vCenter Jump Host. For Jump host I’m using blueprint standard clone option Windows Template with customization Share NSF…

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 we are able to use it in design To prepare this VM for work with docker I decided to customize it from vRO. In this case I’ve put custom property After this specific setup, we are able to use Event Subscription which run our vRO…

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 under development so you can consider it as a beta version but it meets your expectations. The element that has to be improved is integration with the user You can download this file and change extension to .ps1 from .txt