Welcome to the April VMware Validated Solutions update. The focus for this month has been continued effort to automate implementation steps.
Highlights for this update include:
- Additional automation based on the PowerValidatedSolutions v1.6.0 release
- Release of PowerValidatedSolutions v1.6.0, which is our PowerShell module developed to ensure robustness, consistency, and accelerate implementation
Identity and Access Management for VMware Cloud Foundation
Additional PowerValidatedSolutions Automation
- Add a VMware Identity Manager Adapter for the Standalone Workspace ONE Access Instance (Add-vROPSAdapterIdentityManager)
Intelligent Logging and Analytics for VMware Cloud Foundation Updates
Additional PowerValidatedSolutions Automation
- Reconfigure the Remote Collector Group for the vRealize Log Insight Integration (Update-vROPSAdapterCollecterGroup)
Site Protection and Disaster Recovery for VMware Cloud Foundation Updates
Additional PowerValidatedSolutions Automation
- Reconfigure DNS and Domain Search on the vRealize Automation Nodes (Set-vRADnsConfig)
- Reconfigure NTP on vRealize Automation (Set-vRANtpConfig)
- Create a Port Group for vSphere Replication Traffic (New-vSRPortGroup)
- Create a Site Pair Between the Protected and Recovery VMware Cloud Foundation Instances (New-SRMSitePair)
- Configure Mappings between the Protected and the Recovery VMware Cloud Foundation Instances (Add-SRMMapping)
General Availability of PowerValidatedSolutions v1.6.0
Release of PowerValidatedSolutions v1.6.0, which is a PowerShell module that we have developed to not only accelerate the implementation of Validated Solutions, but ensure consistency and robustness. Here’s a list of what’s changed (this and previous updates can be tracked by reading the CHANGELOG.md file stored in the Git Hub repository):
- Fixed Add-vROPSAdapterNsxt cmdlet so that the description is maintained when validating the certificate of the NSX-T Adapter
- Added Add-vROPSAdapterIdentityManager cmdlet to support adding a new Identity Manager Adapter in vRealize Operations Manager.
- Added Undo-vROPSAdapter cmdlet to support the removal of an Adapter from vRealize Operations Manager.
- Added Undo-vROPSCredential cmdlet to support the removal of an Adapter Credential from vRealize Operations Manager.
- Added Update-vROPSAdapterCollecterGroup cmdlet tto support updating the collector group for an Adapter in vRealize Operations Manager
- Added Set-vRADnsConfig cmdlet to configure the DNS server(s) and DNS search domain(s) on vRealize Automation to use custom settings.
- Added Undo-vRADnsConfig cmdlet to revert the DNS configuration of vRealize Automation to match SDDC Manager.
- Added Set-vRANtpConfig cmdlet to configure the NTP server(s) on vRealize Automation to use custom settings.
- Added Undo-vRANtpConfig cmdlet to revert the NTP configuration of vRealize Automation to match SDDC Manager.
- Added Add-SRMMapping cmdlet to create a mapping between objects (folder, network, or compute resource) in the protected and failover VCF
- Instances in Site Recovery Manager
- Added Undo-SRMMapping cmdlet to remove a mapping between objects (folder, network, or compute resource) in the protected and failover VCF
- Instances in Site Recovery Manager
- Added New-SRMSitePair cmdlet to create a site pair between Site Recovery Manager instances
- Added Undo-SRMSitePair cmdlet to remove an existing site pair between Site Recovery Manager instances.
- Added New-vSRPortGroup cmdlet to create port groups for vSphere Replication appliances in the protected and recovery sites.
- Added Undo-vSRPortGroup cmdlet to remove port groups for vSphere Replication appliances in the protected and recovery sites.
