The time required to fetch information on a third party deployment platform (like Azure virtual machine's current and available public address) through vRealize Orchestrator can take too long and raise SocketTimeout errors. The process times out in vRealize Automation with this error message: "The connection to …

Get Linqpad and run the setup. Connect Once installed, you can connect LinqPad with your IaaS server: URL: https://iaas-manager.domain.tld/Repository/Data/ManagementModelEntities.svc Type: ODATA3 Credential: IaaS Service Account After validation, and a couple of minutes to load the database schema, you should see the …

If you are familiar with the vRealize Automation installation process, you probably already know that it is possible to download some usefull files from the "installers" page. You can access to the "installers" with two URLs: https://vrava.domain/installers (most commun URL) or …

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. Sample of output Installation Requirements: Python 3 …

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 …

I started using the VMware Photon based appliances to deploy vCenter services (VCSA) and PSC with the 6.5 version several months ago. It's really stable and I appreciate to use it daily and to replace the windows based services with the appliance ones. But a couple of days ago, I had a bad suprise in a lab environment …