Bits and pieces of vRealize Automation / vRealize Orchestrator / vSphere
This site is intended to provide some real world scenarios for your cloud automation journey. Some of these examples are not meant to be perfect, but they might give you some hints for your own solutions.
Upgrading vRealize Automation 8.6.2 to 8.10.1
This post will show you a step by step rundown of an upgrade from vRealize Automation Version 8.6.2 to Version 8.10.1. We will cover every step needed and we will also look at a few things you might want to check before and during the upgrade. Introduction So, you might ask: “8.6.2 ? Isn’t that quite old ?”. True indeed, it is. Since vRealize Automation On Prem release cycles have more or less been adjusted to match vRealize Automation Cloud releases it has been becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with the update schedule....
Configure datastores allowed for vSphere Cluster Service VM's using PowerCLI
This post will show you how to configure datastores allowed for vSphere Cluster Service VM’s using a PowerCLI script. As a side effect you will also learn a little bit about finding your way around the vSphere Web Services API. If you are already familiar with this you can of course jump straight to the finished script. Introduction In vSphere 7.0 Update 3 vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) have been introduced....
vRealize Automation VM Image Management using Codestream Pt.2
This post is for vRealize Automation / vRealize Orchestrator 8 administrators with no or little experience in Codestream. It will show one use case where vRealize Codestream could come in handy to automate things in form of a pipeline using vRealize Orchestrator workflows. Introduction In the first part of this two part post we focused on getting a vRealize Orchestrator workflow toolset in place to build a vRealize Codestream pipeline. The goal of the pipeline will be to automate the VM image management for vRealize Automation....
vRealize Automation VM Image Management using Codestream Pt.1
This post is for vRealize Automation / vRealize Orchestrator 8 administrators with no or little experience in Codestream. It will show one use case where vRealize Codestream could come in handy to automate things in form of a pipeline using vRealize Orchestrator workflows. Introduction As a vRealize Automation 8 user you probably clicked on the “Codestream” tile wondering what this is all about. If you dug a littler deeper, the offcial VMware Docs will introduce it as this:...