VMware has announced an intent to acquire SaltStack! We are very excited about this announcement and we are sure our customers will be excited about this as well. You can read more about the acquisition here: https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2020/09/saltandvra.html SaltStack can help IT with the following: Continuous Compliance Vulnerability Remediation Security Scanning Event-Driven Orchestration Auto-Scaling Application Deployment And much more! In order Read more...
I recently wrote the Leverage vRealize Automation’s Action Based eXtensibility (ABX), Event Broker Service (EBS) & APIs for Email customized notifications blog, we took advantage of Action-based extensibility ( ABX ), which provides a lightweight and flexible run-time engine interface where you can define small scriptable actions and configure them to initiate when events specified Read more...
Update Oct 27 2020 – Terraform Runtime Integration for vRealize Automation 8.2 You probably are aware of the Terraform Provider for vRealize Automation 8 and Cloud and hopefully have read already Sam McGeown’s Blog about it, however with the latest August release for vRealize Automation Cloud ( and in the upcoming vRealize Automation 8.2 Read more...
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...
If you are already running Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Clusters (TKG Clusters), you can configure your environment to send logs to vRealize Log Insight Cloud by following this article by Munishpal Makhija – Configure Log forwarding from VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster to vRealize Log Insight Cloud. The instructions for setting up log forwarding are also detailed Read more...
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 Read more...
Enhanced SD-WAN Insights with vRealize Network Insight SD-WAN has become a trending WAN solution, especially with the way things are changing in the world today, with many companies shifting to having more employees work from home, making SD-WAN performance visibility even more critical today to ensure end-users receive the application performance that the end-users expect. Read more...
You can now Install vRealize Suite hybrid cloud in VMware Cloud on AWS, and have all vRealize Suite on-prem functionality in VMware Cloud on AWS. vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager can provide same user experience and ease of use during the deployment and lifecycle management of vRealize Suite in VMware Cloud on AWS. vRealize Suite includes Read more...
On a recent call with a customer, I was asked for help showing the value of vRealize Operations from a financial perspective. Cost management has been a native feature within vRealize Operations since the 6.7 release, but the costs needed to show the Return on Investment (ROI) are available in multiple locations. Potential cost savings Read more...
Overview Red Hat OpenShift is an open-source container application platform based on the Kubernetes container orchestrator for enterprise application development and deployment. In this blog, I will be showing procedure on how to forward logs from Openshift Container Platform to vRealize Log Insight Cloud (vRLIC) Once the logs are flowing you can create Dashboard to Read more...
