You know that feeling when you’re all set to start working on something, your plan is clear, and you’re ready to take action — but your homelab decides otherwise? That was me recently. I urgently needed a few print screens for a presentation I was giving at the UK VMUG, but of course, that’s exactly … More VRA doesn’t start
If you’ve ever deployed vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) through Lifecycle Manager (LCM) and hit strange errors during first boot, you’re not alone.Recently, I ran into exactly that situation while setting up an Orchestrator in one of my vRA tenants — and what looked like a simple network issue turned out to be a great troubleshooting lesson. … More Troubleshooting vRA Orchestrator Deployment Failure Through LCM
It was time to update my Aria Automation certificates. Luckily this is an automated process you can execute through LCM, a process which is way easier than before. But for security reasons I always take a snapshot of my current environment.However when I wanted to take my snapshot, I got an error during the precheck … More LCM snapshot creation fails on health-check
Kristof, what did you do wrong now? 🙂 Well in my multi-tenant environment I deleted my original “configadmin” account. I did that because I wanted to change my naming convention of my accounts. Once I created my new account through LCM, it was time to test my connection.Well to my big surprise I got a … More Not able to connect with configadmin
It took me a while till I had everything sorted out to be able to push my packages to vRO/vRA so I documented my process. If I ever need to do it again I can always come back to my own blog 😀 and hopefully it also helps some of you in the process.At the … More Configure your windows workstation for Aria Build Tools
I just deployed Aria automation and was busy configuring my deployment. When I tried to make a connection to VMC on AWS I received this “Invalid API token” error. What I forgot was, that although I had all the connectivity I needed on my jump server. I needed a proxy server for my appliances.So I … More Adding a proxy to Aria Automation
It’s been a while since I’ve added a new blog post, but changing career to freelancer has quite an impact on your free time. But my good intentions for 2025 is to blog more again 😀 The infoblox integration took me some time to get all the settings right, so I thought this makes a … More Infoblox integration and IP assignment
This weekend I wanted to upgrade my vIDM. But as you know my luck by now, I got an error during the upgrade. It was giving me a “Failed” status during the pre-check. Content blog article 1.First attempt There’s a KB article that describes the issue I’m having but it didn’t bring me the complete … More vIDM upgrade fails on precheck OVFENV
In part 2 I’ll continue the configuration of Aria through API’s. And as promised I’ll also dig a bit deeper into some more advanced options with Postman. In case you forgot, the 3 places where you can find more information about API calls: Content blog article 1. Create a Network Profile We create a network … More Aria automation: Starting with API’s part 2
This will be a post for dummies on API’s. No offense to anyone, because I’m referring to myself in this case 🙂 . Before I started with this post I never really had the need to work with API’s and I didn’t know much about them. So with this post, I want to document everything … More Aria automation: Starting with API’s part 1
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