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 …
Read MoreAs an exception, I will post this article in French only as its subject is the French VMUG edition. Sorry for english speaking people. Aujourd'hui avait lieu la reboot-edition du VMUG France dans les (tout neufs!) locaux parisiens d'OVH. L'événènement est à présent orchestré (et bien orchestré!) par Noham Medyouni …
Read MoreNetworking When attempting to add an ESXi 5.x and 6.0 host to a DVS, the host is missing or the list is empty vCSA Stopping, starting, or restarting services in vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 vRealize Automation Search Upgrading vRA from 6.2.5/7.x to 7.4 fails due to duplicate entities in vRO DB
Read MorevRealize Automation – Change the VAMI certificate
Set the certificate private key password in a shell variable 1INKEY="<<CERT_PASSPHRASE>>" Get a PFX file from original cert 1openssl pkcs12 -export \ 2 -in <<fqdn>>.crt \ 3 -inkey <<fqdn>>.key \ 4 -certfile ca-root.crt \ 5 -name "rui" \ 6 -passout pass:$INKEY \ 7 -out …
Read MoreVMware vCloud Director – Change SSL certificates
The following procedure is a self-reminder of How-To replace the certificates of a VMware vCloud Director deployment. Prepare informations Here is a configuration sample for a single cell deployment. Change settings according to your needs: If you are using multi-cells deployment, I stronlgy recommend you to extend …
Read MoreSimple restart of health broker service 1service vrhb-service on # ensure that service is activated 2service vrhb-service restart Reset health broker service data In case of non-working health management page (error message displayed or white/missing content), and after having tested the previous troubleshoot method it …
Read MoreThe 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 …
Read MoreIf 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 …
Read MoreAs you could notice (if you don't use an RSS tool to read this blog): there is a new UI theme based on the Clarity Design System. To compare before/after: This decision was strongly motivated by the new HTML5-powered interface of vCSA 6.5 & 6.7. This new VMware vCenter UI is also based (as many of others VMware's …
Read MoreVMware vRealize orchestrator package diff python tool
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 …
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