vRealize Automation Cloud and 8.1 offered a number of roles at the Service and Project level for awhile now. With the July 2020 release in vRealize Automation Cloud, we have the ability to expand beyond the predefined roles currently offered in the services. Previously we could set an Administrator, User/Member, and Viewer role across the
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With the release of vSphere 7 VMware introduced a new capability called vSphere with Kubernetes. This new capability built directly into the hypervisor opens vSphere up to the amazing world of container management through Kubernetes. It should be no surprise that vRealize Automation is jumping in to provide a management capability which will allow you
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Existing VMware Cloud on AWS customers have another Add-On service within their SDDC portal. The new Add-On tile provides a 45 day trial of vRealize Automation Cloud! I started a blog series about how vRealize Automation Cloud can provide a rich set of Self-Service capabilities for VMware Cloud on AWS and you can read that
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Looking for a modern self-service hybrid cloud with DevOps? Discover how vRealize Automation Cloud can rapidly implement a self-service hybrid cloud infrastructure to increase productivity and deployment flexibility. Automation has become increasingly important for simplifying the management of hybrid cloud infrastructure. As such, organizations are looking for an infrastructure automation solution that spans
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There have been a couple of blogs written about Ansible and vRealize Automation in the past. I posted a few of them at the bottom of this blog for reference. However in this blog I wanted to highlight the integration in a bit more depth and update you on some new features that may be
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VMware vRealize Automation and ServiceNow integration has yet another upgraded plugin available on the ServiceNow store! Introducing the 8.1 version of the ITSM plugin available for download on the ServiceNow Store. If you are interested in reading about what we released in the ITSM 8.0.1 plugin from March 2020 take a look at this blog.
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One of the most common request you probably get when working with vRealize Automation 8.1 or vRealize Automation Cloud is, Can you customize email notifications?, could that be done with Action Based eXtensibility (ABX)? The short answer to both is “Yes”. In this blog, I will show you how to take advantage of the Event
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The following blog post demonstrates using vRealize Automation to deploy Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) management and workload clusters. VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid provides a consistent, upstream-compatible implementation of Kubernetes, that is tested, signed, and supported by VMware. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid is central to many of the offerings in the VMware Tanzu portfolio. This example touches
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Recently I published a blog about the Custom Resources feature within vRealize Automation, you can review that blog here. Custom Resources was introduced in vRealize Automation 8.1 (it was in our SaaS version first, but we will focus on-prem version of vRealize Automation for now). This feature provides a method to expand the capabilities of
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So you built a hybrid cloud model using VMware Cloud on AWS and are undoubtedly benefiting from all the goodness a true hybrid cloud can bring to your organization. VMware Cloud on AWS has helped many of our customers quickly and easily achieve a path to hybrid cloud and because it is based on vSphere
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