Category: VRA
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Deploying vRealize Automation SaltStack Config to trust the root certificate applied to Aria Automation
I started deploying vRealize Automation SaltStack Config to check out its features by adding it to my existing vRealize Automation deployment, in vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. Followed by selecting a certificate issued by the same Internal CA vRA is leveraging. Then I ensured the slider to Integrate with Identity Manager was enabled. After successfully deploying…
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VMware Orchestrator script that adds a virtual machine to a DRS group
Script is below This script first gets a reference to the vCenter server, the DRS cluster, and the virtual machine you want to add to the DRS group. It then checks if a DRS group already exists in the cluster, and if so, it creates a new VcClusterGroupVmGroup object representing the virtual machine and adds…
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Adding VM Notes and Custom Attributes with vRA8
First I’ll add a few new inputs to the cloud template in Cloud Assembly: I’ll also need to add these to the resources section of the template so that they will get passed along with the deployment properties: vRO Workflow Okay, so we’ve got the information to pass on to vCenter. Now I need to…
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VRA vRealize Automation Orchestrator export\import custom workflows
Quick post on how to export\import custom workflows in vRealize Automation Orchestrator Tree view is very helpful, this listed out my custom workflows that were in a folder: Move to packages and clicked new package: Give the new package a name and switch over to the content tab: Find the Custom workflows you wanted to…
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VRA vRealize Automation Orchestrator export\import custom workflows
Quick post on how to export\import custom workflows in vRealize Automation Orchestrator Tree view is very helpful, this listed out my custom workflows that were in a folder: Move to packages and clicked new package: Give the new package a name and switch over to the content tab: Find the Custom workflows you wanted to…
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Join VMs to specific OUs in AD with vRA
Connecting a deployed Windows VM to an Active Directory domain is pretty easy, just apply an appropriately-configured customization spec and vCenter will take care of it for you. Of course, you’ll likely then need to move the newly-created computer object to the correct Organizational Unit so that it gets the correct Group Policy. Fortunately, vRA…
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VRA8 Error Upfront price is unavailable, please run vROPS price engine first!
https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2020/04/vm-pricing-with-vrealize-automation-8-1-and-vrealize-operations-8-1.html First it’s worth checking you have the correct Currency selected in Operations Manager (Error :Currency information is not available) Login to vRealize Operations Manager go to Administration tab Expand Management section choose global settings on the very last line you can select the currency Next you should Sync up the prices in cloud assembly…
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vRealize Automation 8 expressions and functions advanced blueprint techniques
In one input you can only choose either the image or imageRef or choose the customization spec, not both at once 🙁 Then I found out about expressions and functions that can be used from within the vRA8 blueprints. First create a blueprint To show the workings of a function in blueprints we just need…
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vRealize Orchestrator control center
Information on how to install the powerscale plugin in vRealize, first step is to navigate to the control center. This appears to have changed in newer versions of VRA: https://VIP Address of VRA/vco-controlcenter/config/login.html