LifeCycle Manager – Kristof's virtual life

Troubleshooting vRA Orchestrator Deployment Failure Through LCM

October 18, 2025

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

Homelab: LCM & vRA upgrade

March 8, 2021

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

Homelab: LCM & vRA setup

February 17, 2021

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

Deploy vRealize Automation with Lifecycle Manager (part2) – check your deployment

September 17, 2019

After you deployed your vRA environment you can start configuring it. However I would suggest to check your deployment first to see if everything is working fine. This is also a good way to determine a baseline of your environment. In case you missed my first part about the deployment you can find it here. … More Deploy vRealize Automation with Lifecycle Manager (part2) – check your deployment

Deploy vRealize Automation with Lifecycle Manager (part 1)

August 23, 2019

Hey VMware enthusiasts, this post will show you how you can deploy vRA 7.4 with LCM 2.0Yes I know, I hear you thinking, why are you still using old versions while vRA 7.6 & LCM 2.1 is already out. Well due to a dependency on SRM I could only deploy vRA 7.4 and I wanted … More Deploy vRealize Automation with Lifecycle Manager (part 1)