Vincent Riccio, Author at VMware Cloud Management

Custom Resources and Resource Actions in vRealize Automation Cloud

Vincent Riccio posted August 31, 2020

The ability to create and manage infrastructure and services for your organization just became more flexible and powerful with the introduction of Custom Resources and Resource Actions in vRealize Automation. Taking advantage of the out-of-the-box integration with vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) you can now create Resources and Day-2 actions using vRO workflows in your Cloud Templates Read more...

Self-Service Hybrid Cloud – Part 2 – Using vRealize Automation ABX to make API calls to VMware Cloud on AWS

Vincent Riccio posted August 10, 2020

In my first blog in the Self Service Hybrid Cloud series I discussed how to create IaaS blueprints and catalog items for a VMware Cloud on AWS environment, you can check out that blog here. I discussed how vRealize Automation consumes SDDC networks, storage and templates and more. This is a powerful solution for organization Read more...

Introducing vRealize Automation Cloud Add-On for VMware Cloud on AWS customers!

Vincent Riccio posted July 15, 2020

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 Read more...

Deeper look at the vRealize Automation and Ansible Open Source Integration

Vincent Riccio posted July 8, 2020

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 Read more...

Introducing ServiceNow ITSM 8.1 Plugin for vRealize Automation

Vincent Riccio posted June 19, 2020

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. Read more...

vRealize Automation 8.1 – Using Custom Resources to Execute Scripts along with Deployments

Vincent Riccio posted June 5, 2020

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 Read more...

Self-Service Hybrid Cloud – Part 1 – Provide Self-Service Catalog for VMware Cloud on AWS using vRealize Automation

Vincent Riccio posted May 27, 2020

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 Read more...

What’s New in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.1

Vincent Riccio posted April 14, 2020

vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager(vRSLCM) 8.1 brings some exciting new features to help organizations manage their vRealize Suite set of products and ultimately consume and manage their Software-Defined-Datacenter (SDDC). vRSLCM is included in the vRealize Suite and vRA 8.x Standalone set of products. Customers have benefited from the vRSLCM integration into our SDDC portfolio because it Read more...

vRealize Automation 8.1 and VMware Cloud Foundation Integration Enhancements

Vincent Riccio posted April 14, 2020

I am excited to announce a great new feature in vRealize Automation 8.1 (vRA) that will allow customers who are using VMware Cloud Foundation(VCF) to more easily consume the infrastructure and policies that are provided with the VCF solution. When building a Private or Hybrid Cloud it is important to provide services to users who Read more...

Approval Policies in vRealize Automation

Vincent Riccio posted March 30, 2020

Providing a self-service catalog can be a great way to allow users in an organization to quickly get applications and services they need and can help IT focus on other tasks outside of just full-filling requests for machines. However when a catalog is presented to an organization it is important that there are some guardrails Read more...

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