The vRealize Automation REST API can be used on vRealize Orchestrator directly with the vCACCAFE plugin, instead of using the HTTP-REST plugin, which can be much more simplier.

Get the vRA REST endpoint

If you have already used the vRealize Automation REST API, you should have noticed that there is around twenty …

I have recently published a draft tool to provide a table-formated diff of two vRealize Orchestrator packages.

Project is available on GitHub project and will evolve in futur to support more package item's types and to provide better information about differences.

Installation …

Ansible is a well known software to automates software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. In concrete terms, it's possible to manage infrastructure deployment and configuration during life cycle from sets of configuration files.

In the following post, I will try to explain how to use it …

In a previous post, I've already talk about an issue occuring in a lab environment with vCSA 6.5u0 and PSC appliance : VCSA or PSC appliance won't boot after hard shutdown.

As the issue became more regular with time, I tried to figure out the root cause of those events.

As system's logs reports SCSI timeout on write …

When you install a VMware vCloud Director instance, it comes with an embedded JRE (Java Runtime Environment). For example, vCloud Director includes JRE 1.8.0_121 :

1$VCLOUD_HOME/jre/bin/java -version
2java version "1.8.0_121"
3Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_121-b13)
4Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server …

VMware introduced in version 5.5 of vCloud Director, a feature to externaly expose catalogs and if necessary, to subscribe to an externaly exposed one.

This is useful to synchronize catalog between two (or more) vCloud Director instances.

Basic usage

The two following sections are extracts from the VMware documentation …