Yesterday, 2014-12-09, VMware released a version of vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) and as we have been told for a while now the product was rebranded to vRealize Automation (vRA). So the new version is called vRealize Automation 6.2.0. Some of the the enhancements includes: Enhanced Ednpoing support for: vSphere 6 (Q1 2015) XenDesktop 7 Enhancements to vCloud …
Category Archive: vRealize Automation
vCloud Automation Center VirtualMachine.Network Property Definition changes
A couple of moths back i wrote an article about how to select virtual machine (VM) network placement while deploying a VM via vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) soon to be renamed to vRealize Automation (vRA). You can find the blog post here. I have received a couple of questions over the past months and they …
Heads up! vCloud Automation Center Property Definition information
This will be a very short blog post about the vCloud Automation Center (vCAC), soon to be renamed to vRealize Automation (vRA), Property Definition Vrm.DataCenter.Location. There are a few blog posts describing how to use the vCAC Property Definition Vrm.DataCenter.Location to specify where, to which vCAC Compute Resource, your vCAC based virtual machines (VMs) will be deployed. Many of …
Set vCenter Server Annotations via vCloud Automation Center deployment
How can i update the virtual machine (VM) Annotations field in vCenter Server when requesting a VM via vCloud Automation Center (vCAC), soon to be renamed to vRealize Automation (vRA)? I have had this question a few times the last couple of weeks. This blog post will describe how you can solve this. The below figures shows …
New vRealize Automation (vRA) reference architecture – No more single point of failure
VMware has recently released an updated version of the vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) which will be renamed to vRealize Automation (vRA) in the next (6.2) release so i’ll call it vRA from now on. Two things caught my attention and especially one which i have been looking for a long time now. There is no longer …
Nutanix Cluster status reporting via vRealize Automation
This is the third video i have put together to show the vRealize Automation (vRA) formerly vCloud Automation Center (vCAC), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) formerly vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) and Nutanix REST API integrations. Other related blog posts including automation videos can be found here: Create Nutanix Container via vCloud Automation Center Nutanix and vSphere deployment via …
Nutanix and vSphere deployment via vCenter Orchestrator
A few weeks back me and my colleagues Phil Ditzel and Artur Krzywdzinski was asked to create a customer demo including Nutanix and vSphere deployment. We decided to use vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) as the provisioning engine but this can be done via e.g PowerShell as well. The following steps are included in the vCD workflow we …
Create Nutanix Container via vCloud Automation Center
A few week ago i decided to put together a few short videos of how to use vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) and vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) to manage the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform (VCP). The video will show you how vCAC, using vCO, can be used to quickly create a new Nutanix Container and send an email …
Greenfield vCloud Automation Center Deployment on Nutanix
Last week, before the 9/9 release of new the vCloud Suite software versions, i was asked by a potential Nutanix customer how long it will take from the moment the Nutanix block arrives on-site until a vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) environment can be up and running and ready for virtual machine (VM) deployments. ————————————————————————————————————- Short answer: For …
vCloud Automation Center IaaS component installation failure
A few days ago i was contacted when a vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) 6.0.1 installation failed with the following error message: vCAC-Server-Custom-Database-Web-ModelManagerData-ConfigTool Installation Failed, Exitcode: 1 See complete log file at the end of the blog post. While investigating the error log file i found the following: System.Data.Services.Client.DataServiceQueryException: An error occurred while processing this request. …
vCloud Automation Center installation failure cleanup
A few days ago i was asked to look into a failed vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) installation. The failing part was the Windows Server based vCAC Infrastructure as a Service component. I didn’t have access to the installation log file, which is normally saved in the vCAC IaaS virtual machine directory C:Program Files (x86)VMwarevCACServerConfigToolLog, so i really …