Welcome back, everyone to another month of awesome vExpert Cloud Management blog updates! Every month, we gather blogs from the 130+ members of the vExpert Cloud Management program and bring you a digest of all the latest happenings from around the community. These blogs are written by industry professionals and often feature walkthroughs, feature highlights, and news for vRealize OperationsvRealize Network InsightvRealize Log InsightvRealize Automation, and VMware Skyline. The vExpert title is awarded to individuals who dedicate their time outside of work to share their experiences and useful information about VMware products with the rest of the community. Below, you will find a digest of the blogs written by the community in August of 2021. With VMworld right around the corner, we’ll start with some recommendations for you to check out!

VMworld Related Blogs

VMworld 2021 – SaltStack Config Session by Dale Hassinger (@dalehassinger) United States

Join Team Kandy At VMworld 2021 by Kimberly Delgado (@KCDAutomate) United States

My personal picks for cloud management at VMworld 2021 by Alain Geenrits (@alaingeenrits) Belgium

My top 5 picks for VMworld 2021 by Kim Bottu (@kim_bottu) Belgium

vRealize Automation Related Blogs

VMware vRealize SaltStack Config as a Windows Server Admin – Part 2 by Dale Hassinger (@dalehassinger) United States

VMware vRealize SaltStack Config as a Windows Server Admin – Part 3 by Dale Hassinger (@dalehassinger) United States

Configure vRealize Automation using Terraform by Randhir Chaubey (@randhirchaubey) India

How to create AWS S3 Buckets with vRA Cloud /8.x by Barjinder Singh (@sBarjinderSingh) Australia

vRealize Automation Tenants Configuration in Less Than Five Minutes Using vRA Terraform Provider by Randhir Chaubey (@randhirchaubey) India

Upgrading vRA (vRealize Automation) to 8.5 by Cosmin Trif (@cosm0_) United States

VMware vRealize Automation 8.5 Released by Allan Kjaer (@Allan_Kjaer) Denmark

vRA 8.x “ Unable to sync the status of this resource (Custom Resources) by  Michaël Van de gaer (@vdgMichael) Belgium

vRealize Automation 8.x within VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation) by Jose Cavalheri (@JoseCavalheri) Belgium

How to get a vRO node name in a workflow by Barjinder Singh (@sBarjinderSingh) Australia

vRealize Log Insight Related Blogs

How to Configure Red Hat OpenShift to Forward Logs to VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud by Dean Lewis, Munishpal Makhija, Christian Heidenreich United States

Log Insight VM Monitoring Dashboard (Download) by Lan Nguyen (@LanVMware) United States

vRealize Operations Related Blogs

vROps and CloudHealth by Brock Peterson (@bpatvmware) United States

vROps cloud API getting started by Cosmin Trif (@cosm0_) United States

vROps Cloud APIs by Brock Peterson (@bpatvmware) United States

Updated vRTVS Management Pack for ServiceNow by Brock Peterson (@bpatvmware) United States

vRealize Operations Creating interactions between separate dashboards by Dean Lewis (@saintdle) Great Britain

Disk Monitoring with VMware vROps by Brock Peterson (@bpatvmware) United States

vRealize Suite and Lifecycle Manager Related Blogs

How to enable true SSO for vRealize suite logins by Andreas Vedå (@Andyve) Norway

How to add Active Directory using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager by Andreas Vedå (@Andyve) Norway

vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) Product Support Pack by Cosmin Trif (@cosm0_) United States

Patching vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) to 8.4.1.1 Patch 1 by Cosmin Trif (@cosm0_) United States

Upgrading vRSLCM (vRealize Lifecycle Manager) to 8.4.1.1 by Cosmin Trif (@cosm0_) United States