Category: vRO

Aria Automation 7 to 8 – Transition Strategies (vRA 7 to vRA 8)

Aria Automation 7 to 8 – Transition Strategies (vRA 7 to vRA 8)

Working every day with Aria Automation (old vRealize Automation) has some advantages in getting every day a new challenge from our customers. It can be a simple feature parity not there or simply changing way of strategy adopted for the customer/project. In this video that my colleague @vdgmichael and myself have created a basic and … Continue reading Aria Automation 7 to 8 – Transition Strategies (vRA 7 to vRA 8)

Log4j – How to patch VMware vRLSCM, vIDM, vRA 7.6-8.x (VMSA-2021-0028)

Log4j – How to patch VMware vRLSCM, vIDM, vRA 7.6-8.x (VMSA-2021-0028)

Hi! Over the past few days a critical vulnerability has been identified in the Apache Log4j module and lots of applications over the world are affected by this.  The latest information regarding VMware Products which have been affected by this vulnerability can be found here: https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0028.html To make our readers life easier, hereby how to … Continue reading Log4j – How to patch VMware vRLSCM, vIDM, vRA 7.6-8.x (VMSA-2021-0028)

Log4j patch for vRealize Automation 8.x and vRealize Orchestrator 8.x (KB87120)

Log4j patch for vRealize Automation 8.x and vRealize Orchestrator 8.x (KB87120)

Hi! Over the past few days a critical vulnerability has been identified in the Apache Log4j module and lots of applications over the world are affected by this.  The latest information regarding VMware Products which have been affected by this vulnerability can be found here: https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0028.html For VMware vRealize Lifecycle Manager 8.x - Please check … Continue reading Log4j patch for vRealize Automation 8.x and vRealize Orchestrator 8.x (KB87120)

Export vRO Packages to Actions & Configuration Elements (*.js files) + Create your own Git Repository

Export vRO Packages to Actions & Configuration Elements (*.js files) + Create your own Git Repository

Hello everyone!!! Have you ever heard about Fling "VMware vRealize Build Tools", sometimes we also use different names such as #COE development tools, #vRO integration with VSCode, IaC for vRealize Suite or any other name that comes into mind. Yes! That's is indeed really nice the possibility to integrate your vRO 7x or vRO 8x … Continue reading Export vRO Packages to Actions & Configuration Elements (*.js files) + Create your own Git Repository

vRA 8.1/2 – Custom Resources

vRA 8.1/2 – Custom Resources

Hi, Welcome to our blog!In this post I'm going to cover all the secrets of Custom Resources in vRA & vRO 8. I've created 2 videos where you can find all the details: What are Custom Resources? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV-OMn1ufp8&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=vRA4U-vRA%26vRO How to create Custom Resources / Demo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0KOB6TKY20&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=vRA4U-vRA%26vRO Hope they can be of help for you! If … Continue reading vRA 8.1/2 – Custom Resources

vRO 8 – Action execution with id: -id- was not found

vRO 8 – Action execution with id: -id- was not found

Helloooo! Recently I was playing around with vRA 8.1 Multi-Tenancy and came across the following error message when running an Action on my Embedded vRO Instance from a given vRA Tenant: Symptoms? I created multiple tenants and integrated them with my Embedded vRO environment. When accessing vRO from the Master / Default Tenant, everything works … Continue reading vRO 8 – Action execution with id: -id- was not found

What’s New in vRealize Automation 8.1

As announced on march 10th by VMware a new strategy and expansion of portifolio has taken place. It's always important for us to keep fresh within new releases and mainly on company view and how they foreseen the acceleration within their products to market. Having said that, I won't tell about vSphere 7, Tanzu or … Continue reading What’s New in vRealize Automation 8.1

vRA 7.5/7.6 – Change / Set Deployment Name during Provisioning with EBS & vRO

The Problem Since vRA 7.5 we have the option to change the Name & Description of our Deployment via the UI as shown below: But what if we would like to Change a Deployment's Name programatically? What if we would like to set it during provisioning to match our VM's Name for example? Can we … Continue reading vRA 7.5/7.6 – Change / Set Deployment Name during Provisioning with EBS & vRO

No credentials found for peer of SRM server https://srm_ip:9086/vcdr/extapi/sdk

This error is appearing on the following vRO + SRM Plugins (6.5/6.5.1/8.1/8.1.1) and it has been mentioned on the VMware Blog. https://communities.vmware.com/message/2863861 Case Scenario Requirements Use pre-configured Datastore and Protection Group with Storage Replication.Select in blueprint if required or not "SRM/DR ". Error encountered during Implementation scenario No credentials found for peer of SRM server … Continue reading No credentials found for peer of SRM server https://srm_ip:9086/vcdr/extapi/sdk

vRO Locking System

Use Case Scenario: Environment having issues to deploy multiple machines (2 or more instances <or> multi deployments within short period of time), which was due to duplicated machine Hostnames (custom). Although the failure was rather critical, solution was very simple just utilizing the #vRO SystemLocking feature within the pre-building workflow. Direct to the point >> … Continue reading vRO Locking System