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I recently discovered an issue while using the Software Components feature of vRA7 on a CENTOS7 template. All was working fine before I performed a YUM update. You can see from the screenshot below that the VM provisions but the Software Component does not deploy. After the YUM Update on Continue reading vRA7 Software Agent Gotcha for CentOS7 or RHEL7
Have you ever wanted to do something custom with VMware software but just did not know where to start? Or did you hear from other customers about interesting integrations or customizations of VMware but not sure how they did that? We’ll the times are a changing. Recently VMware announced Sample Continue reading Introducing VMware Sample Exchange
The vRealize Automation 7 appliance provides the UI and portal functionality for vRA (among other things). Behind the scenes it is running a vPostgres database to store information about approvals, catalog items and some logging. Over time the database tables can become fragmented and impact performance of the portal. Always Continue reading How to reindex the vRA7 Appliance Database
So you have downlaoded and installed the vRealize Automation 7 Appliance and now you want to start to work on some vRealize Orchestrator workflows. While you could just use the Java Client, there is also an installabled version available for Windows.
In my last post I showed you how to create the developer friendly blueprint in vRealize 7. In this guide we will show how to invoke the REST API to make this request. Before we get into the details it helps to illustrate how each team wants to interact with Continue reading Requesting the VRA Developer Friendly Blueprint with curl
Do you want to make your developers happy and win their trust and business? Or, are you a developer that works at a VMware shop and you just want command line REST API access to your infrastructure? Well, then you have come to the right place. In this guide I Continue reading The vRA 7 Developer Friendly Blueprint!
If you are here you should have already performed the steps in Part I Let’s test the agent to make sure it works
New in vRealize Automation 7 you now have the ability to drop software components onto your Blueprints in the new blueprint design tool. In this guide I will show you how to create a Linux template with the vRealize Automation Agent installed and configured. We will then make this template Continue reading How to create a vRA 7 Automation Agent Linux Template – Part I