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
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
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
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
In Part 2 we’re continuing our configuration. Content blog article Configuration Active Directory policies Create Active Directory endpoint Create Active Directory policy Creating reservations Create a Business Group Create a reservation policy Create a network profile Create a Reservation Configure cross-site deployments Configure your web servers Configure your compute resources Configuration 1. Active Directory policies … More Configuration of vRA – Part 2
After we did the deployment through LCM in part 1 (link) and we checked our deployment in part 2 (link) it’s now time to actually start the configuration of our vRealize environment. Content blog article Configuration Create tenants Create vSphere endpoints Create Active Directory Link Update Identity provider Create Fabric groups Configuration 1. Create tenants … More Configuration of vRA – Part 1
This post can help you, if you’re trying to join your vRA deployment to an Active Directory domain, but you receive below error. No, it’s not linked to a wrong userid/password, in my case it was linked to the fact that my Active Directory Netbios domain name was in lower case. Yes, I know what … More Change Netbios domain name to uppercase
Something new popped up during a manual deployment of vRA 7.4. The deployment failed with a time-out during the database creation. After restarting it a second time, the outcome was the same. I downloaded the scripts to manually create the database and to see where it exactly fails. If you need them, you can download … More vRA 7.4 deployment fails on database creation.
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