As described on another blog post, vRA IaaS objects can be gathered using the model manager. This article will show you how to interact with this kind of object using vRealize Orchestrator.

On this first sample, we are trying to get a virtual machine named TESTVM02 on the model manager. The VirtualMachine object has a …

About a year ago, I published a small tool to compare two VMware vRealize Orchestrator packages file: vRO Package Diff. Initial version was a simple python script accepting 2 files as arguments and without any input controls.

Today, I publish a v2 of the tool with the following changes:

• vro-package-diff is now a Pypi …

In order to use the embedded swagger interface of a vRO instance (/vco/api/docs/index.html) it is necessary to enable HTTP basic Authentication over SSO through the vmo.properties file:

Log-in by SSH, add a line to the vmo properties file and restart service:

1echo …

If you want to migrate an existing vRO instance (6.X, 7.X) with built-in PostgreSQL database to vRO 7.5, you might encounter the following error during DB migration process:

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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: …

Simple 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 …