Tag Archive: vRA 7

VMware vRealize Automation XaaS Architect Configuration

Quick blog post about how to enable you to create vRealize Automation Anything As A Service, XaaS, blueprints. This is a follow up blog post to the below deployment & initial configuration once: VMware vRealize Automation 7.6 Deployment Mware vRealize Automation 7.6 Initial Configuration So the only thing left to configure in vRealize Automation (vRA) …

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VMware vRealize Automation 7.6 Initial Configuration

Following up on the previous vRealize Automation (vRA) deployment blog post I need to take care of the initial configuration before I can start using the vRA virtual appliance (VA). I don’t need any Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities for my work so I’ll skip that which saves me a lot of time during …

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VMware vRealize Automation 7.6 Deployment

It’s been a while since I did any hands-on with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), formerly known as vCloud Automation Center, but a while ago I was asked to do some integration work between vRA and Nutanix Era. Before jumping in and developing vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) workflows I obviously need a vRA environment:) This blog post …

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Deploy AHV based VMs via vRealize Automation

This is a follow up post to the Nutanix AHV, OpenStack & vRealize Automation released a few weeks ago. My colleague Gabe Contreras put this one together and it will show you how to configure a vRealize Automation (vRA) Openstack Endpoint, create a vRA reservation, and create a vRA blueprint for provisioning to AHV. Follow the below steps …

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Nutanix AHV, OpenStack & vRealize Automation

There has been a lot of discussions lately around vRealize Automation (vRA) and AHV, formerly known as Acropolis Hypervisor, integrations and if it possible to manage AHV based virtual machines (VMs) via vRA. As many of you already know Nutanix has released its own OpenStack solution that manages AHV objects. The OpenStack solution consists of a single …

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vRealize Automation 7.0.1 released

Yesterday, 2016-03-15, VMware released a minor patch for vRealize Automation meaning the new version is now 7.0.1. However, even though this is a minor patch it includes quite a lot of fixes and also a few new features and enhancements to existing feature. Three major new enhancements are included: Provides a management agent to automate …

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vRealize Automation 7 released

So finally it’s here, vRealize Automaiton (vRA) 7 formerly known as vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) was released yesterday 2015-12-17 and as many of you already knows it brings a lot of new features compared to vRA 6.x. I have blogged about new features for vRA 7 before so this is just a short summary: Per Tenant …

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