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May 28, 2020Gotcha 3 when deploying a vIDM cluster with vRLCM 8.1Recently, I was trying to deploy vRA 8.1 with vRLCM 8.1 Patch 1. I already configured the vIDM 3 node cluster, so I was ready to go.Read post May 28, 2020Gotcha with the VRA CLOUD INFOBLOX PLUGIN 1.1 and vRA 8.1This week I discovered an issue when configuring the vRA 8.1 IPAM integration with the VRA CLOUD INFOBLOX PLUGIN version 1.1.Read post May 25, 2020Gotcha 2 when deploying a vIDM cluster with vRLCM 8.1Last week I released a blog article regarding Gotcha's when deploying a vIDM cluster with vRLCM 8.1. This week it's time to reveal Gotcha 2 and if time…Read post May 18, 2020Gotcha 1 when deploying a vIDM cluster with vRLCM 8.1Last week I released a new blog about How to setup a NSX-V LB for vIDM. https://2vsteaks.bybros.nl/how-to-setup-a-nsx-v-lb-for-vidm/Read post May 14, 2020How to monitor vRA 8.1 via the apiHello All,Read post May 14, 2020How to setup a NSX-V LB for vIDMRecently I wanted to deploy a VMware Identity Manager 3.3.2 cluster with vRealize Lifecycle Manager 8.1. As a prerequisite I needed to prepare the vIDM Load…Read post Oct 19, 2018My LBaaS Journey part 1My upcoming blog posts will be dedicated to my LBaaS journey. With LBaaS, I am referring to "Load Balancer as a Service". In my journey, I am going to…Read post May 9, 2018Signed certificate gotcha for VIC 1.3.1As a follow up on my previous post, I wanted to discover how to deploy the new released VMware vSphere Integrated Containers 1.3.1 appliance with a signed…Read post May 8, 2018How to configure a signed certificate for vLCM 1.2When I was playing around with the new released vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 1.2, I discovered that during the .ovf deployment there was no option to use…Read post Jul 12, 2017vRA 7.3 High Availability ImprovementsWith the latest release of vRealize Automation 7.3, the following very nice high availability improvements have been introduced. - vPostgres Database…Read post Jul 6, 2017How-to fix vRealize Business error "Untrusted certificate chain" after an upgrade to vRA 7.3 and vRB 7.3After I upgraded vRealize Business and vRealize Automation to version 7.3.0, I discovered that vRB was not working anymore from the vRA portal. The following…Read post Jul 5, 2017Monitoring vRA with the vRA Health ServiceOne of the new cool features of vRA 7.3 is the Health Service. With this feature you can monitor a variety of vRA related health checks within the vRA User…Read post Mar 8, 2017Rubrik Dynamic Day2Operation with vRealize AutomationIn my previous blog we created a dynamic populated drop-down list with all available Rubrik SLA domain names. This drop-down list was used in a standard vRA…Read post Feb 14, 2017All available Rubrik SLA domain names dynamically populated in standard vRA IaaS Request FormsAnyone familiar with Rubrik? Rubrik Cloud Data Management delivers automated backup, instant recovery, offsite replication, and data archival in a simple,…Read post Feb 7, 2017How to consume the vRO 7.x API with Oauth2.0 AuthenticationMost of us know that vRO has a REST API and that every request to this Orchestrator REST API must be authorized by an authenticated user. Depending on…Read post Sep 19, 2016vRA 7.1 brings us a nice OOTB UI for REST API callsvRA 7.1 comes with a very nice out of the box user interface which brings us unattended installation features and more. All of this is provided via "guided…Read post Jul 13, 2016How to use a dynamic populated drop-down list with vRA 7 default IaaS blueprintsWith vRA 7, the functionality of the default IaaS blueprints are dramatically improved. One of the new cool features is the usage of dropdown lists populated…Read post Jun 15, 2016How to find the vRO workflow used for your XaaS Service Blueprint in vRA 7With vRA 7 we can create XaaS Service Blueprints. These type of blueprints can be used for almost any request you can think about. But what if you need to…Read post Jun 2, 2016How to configure Kerberos Authentication with vRA 7With vRealize Automation 7, you can now login into the vRA 7 portal without providing credentials. The vRA portal will automatically use the credentials of…Read post May 25, 2016How to configure "Connect using SSH" for Linux virtual machines with vRA 7With vRealize Automation you can configure an Action (Day 2 Operation) named "Connect using SSH". This blog article describes how to set this up. First you…Read post
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