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
A huge advantage of being a vExpert is that you have a lot of licenses at your disposal. So if you have the necessary hardware, you can test a lot of products. Today I’ll be deploying vROps / vRNI & Log insight with LCM. Content blog article Upload vRNI to LCM Create environments vRLI config … More Homelab: Installing vROps/vRNI & Log Insight
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
Till today I was able to run a basic setup on my developer workstation with 64GB of RAM. But once you want to start working with several products as vSphere, vRA & NSX it just doesn’t cut it anymore. So I finally decided to invest in a real homelab for further experimenting. However, the only … More My vSphere 7 Homelab
Hey everyone, it’s been a while since I’ve posted something. But I was busy preparing myself for the VCAP deploy exam. With this post, I want to share how I prepared for the exam. Exam prep At first, I have to admit, that I really didn’t have any clue on where to start for this … More My preparation for the VCAP – DCV Deploy 2020 exam.
For me personally, it wasn’t really clear how you needed to reboot your vRA environment. Also when I followed the procedure I always had issues during startup.So to clarify the process, I’ll write an article about it, that always helps myself to better understand it (or at least I hope so 🙂 ) This is … More Rebooting your vRA environment
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
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