In this guide I will go over the steps of getting an existing 8.x vRSLCM appliance upgraded to the latest 8.3 release The first step is to lo in to vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager under the Lifecycle Operations section Go to settings -> System Upgrade ...
Assuming that you already downloaded the SaltStack Config binaries in this guide we will go over the deployment of SaltStack Config in an existing VRA 8.3 environment via Lifecycle Manager 8.3 Adding SaltStack Config to the vRA Environment Log on to Lifecycle Manager -> Go to environments, on the vRA environment click on the Menu and go to Add Product ...
In this guide I will go over the deployment of vRA 8.3 using the Easy Installer. The reason I like the Easy Installer is because it deploys everything that I need. vIDM, Lifecycle Manager as well as vRA. Downloading and Mounting the Installer To get started we need to download the installer from the Broadcom support portal (the original my.vmware.com download page no longer exists). Once downloaded mount the iso as a drive using your favorite tool or extract it as a archive using something like 7-zip ...
I wanted to give my users the capability to create a snapshot but limit them to only 1 snapshot and have a predefined description from the snapshot so I can know that it was taken from vRA. For the purpose of this I will be using a customer workflow in Orchestrator and Resource Actions and in Cloud Assembly. Since Orchestrator comes with a number of pre defined workflows in always like to jump start by find something thats similar with what im trying to do. For the purpose of this we will be using the Create Snapshot Workflow. ...
I recently ran in to an issue where I had to re-register my NSX server with vIDM. The ask was to extract the Thumbprint from vIDM. The command I ran to extract it was: echo -n | openssl s_client -connect hostname:443 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -fingerprint -sha256 This can be used across multiple products where the Thumbprint needs to be extracted
After a recent deployment of VRA 8 with a trial key in my lab I realized that my key was about to expire. It was time to get it changed with my production key. The key can be changed via Lifecycle Manager or via CLI. Changing the vRealize Automation 8 License key via Lifecycle Manager To change the license via lifecycle manager we need to go to Lifeycle Manager -> Locker -> License ...