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
They told me to use GitHub for my Cloud Templates because it gives you the possibility to develop all your code in one place. From there, you can easily distribute your code to any vRA environment you want. But you’ll need to have internet access if you don’t use an internal GitHub. In this blog … More Setting up GitHub for vRA
I saw a post on Twitter, saying there was a new Fling out to monitor your vRealize Automation environment. So I needed to have it running in my homelab, you can find the link to the fling => HERE You can choose to install Docker Desktop on Windows or on Linux. But because I’m not … More Fling: vRealize Automation Health Monitor
A while ago I got a request from a customer to deploy CoreOS with vRA/vRO. They didn’t want to use the built-in vRA IPAM, but they wanted to set their own IP address with the use of advanced parameters. In this blog I’m going to explain how you can deploy CoreOS with setting advanced VM … More Deploy CoreOS with advanced VM parameters
As you know from my previous post I was so eager to start deploying LCM & vRA that I downloaded the wrong version of the appliance. So currently I’m at 8.2 while the latest version is 8.3. In this article I will update LCM & vRA to 8.3 and VIDM will be upgraded to 3.3.4. … More Homelab: LCM & vRA upgrade
After installing vCenter, it was time to install LifeCycle manager and vRA. And I’m going to start directly with a note to myself => Make sure you download the latest version :-D. I was so enthusiastic to deploy LCM, that I just downloaded the first version I’ve encountered, which was 8.2. But the actual version … More Homelab: LCM & vRA setup
In Part 3 we’re going to finalize the configuration of our vRA deployment. Content blog article Configuration Create entitlements Create service Create blueprint Create entitlement SRM integration vRO SRM plugin Cloudclient install on SRM servers Encountered issues Adding vSphere endpoint failed Adding Directory fails with ERROR_BAD_FORMAT Change global timeout Configuration 1. Create entitlements 1. Create … More Configuration of vRA – Part 3
Today I had another great issue that eventually got resolved. The problem was that on neither of my built-in vRO appliances I saw the logging of my workflows that ran. On both appliances I just saw “No logs found”. Not really handy while you’re in the middle of troubleshooting some workflows. Phase 1 troubleshooting First … More VRO: no logs for workflow runs
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