On July 10, 2018, VMware released an updated version of its vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM) automates Day 0 to Day 2 operations of the entire vRealize Suite, enabling simplified operational experience for customers. The vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager automates install, configuration, upgrade, patch, configuration management, drift remediation and health from within Read more...
We are continuing to cover the multi-developer story for IaaS contents as a code. In the previous blog we have shown step-by-step process on how to set up IaaS content development environment using vRealize Automation with Infrastructure blueprint that is available for download from vRA 7.4 appliances. Here we will be focusing on implementing the Read more...
Many companies are using our vRealize Automation plug-in for ITSM which delivers blueprints to standard ServiceNow catalogs. For the majority of use cases it is working well and many find it useful. And boring as hell. The reason for this is that the plug-in is not giving you everything the vRA portal does. However, just because we Read more...
On May 16th, we will be hosting another Getting More Out of VMware webinar. The webinar is designed for Cloud Administrators and VI Administrators who leverage vRealize Suite products, such as vRealize Automation, to run their virtual infrastructure and cloud environment. It will be a great opportunity to learn how vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 1.2 (vRSLCM) and Read more...
Decision Driven Provisioning with XaaS To me, the power of vRealize Automation has always been how easy it is to take square pegs and fit them into round holes. Generally this capability comes in the form of leveraging “Anything as a Service”, also known as XaaS. XaaS allows you to take any vRealize Orchestrator workflow, Read more...
Custom Forms is a new feature in vRA 7.4. They give you the opportunity to redesign and apply a new look and feel for vRA forms. They also provide a rich set of features, such as the ability to re-order the components in the form, many different types of field validations, the ability to use generic components Read more...
This blog is dedicated to step-by-step instructions on how to quickly configure a vRealize Automation content development environment using vRealize Automation blueprint that is available with the recent 7.4 release. By deploying this blueprint, you can get your IaaS content development environment set up quickly so you can start creating/editing content and share it with Read more...
A customer asked me this week “what is the best way to allow the end users of a vRealize Automation-based private cloud to view the NSX Distributed Firewall Logs?” The users needed to be limited to only the Distributed Firewall logs, and ideally they would be taken directly to a view with the data relating Read more...
Making Clouds Invisible – Usability and Time to Value (TTV) Take a Front seat Fasten your seatbelt – What’s New in vRealize Automation 7.4 Hybrid cloud is a reality that imposes the need to be app-aware, self-driving and fully automated. The advent of containers, PaaS, and FaaS frameworks are driving faster, scalable and portable application development. Infrastructure and Read more...
Contributions by: Alka Gupta, Pranay Bakre and Suma Tambe In this blog, we outline the step by step process to deploy a Docker Host from vRealize Automation(vRA) 7.3 service catalog using a vRA blueprint. Download the ‘CentOS7 with Docker’ . 2. Upload the ‘CentOS with Docker’ blueprint into the vRA environment using CloudClient utility by Read more...
