vRealize Automation 7 Guide
January 11, 2016If following the posts in order, this guide should help you setup vRealize Automation 7 from start to finish. This is a getting started guide that will hopefully get you on the right path, answer any questions you might have, and give you tips on deploying your own cloud management portal.
Part 1 – Simple Installation
Part 2 -Base Setup
Part 3 – Authentication
Part 4 – Tenants
Part 5 – Endpoints
Part 6 – Fabric Groups
Part 7 – Business Groups
Part 8 – Reservations
Part 9 – Services
Part 10 – Custom Groups
Part 11 – Blueprints
Part 12 – Entitlements
Part 13 – Manage Catalog Items
Part 14 – Event Subscriptions
Part 15 – Custom Properties
Part 16 – XaaS Blueprints
Part 17 – Resource Actions
Part 18 – Enterprise Install
Part 19 – Load Balancer Settings
Part 20 – NSX Initial Setup
Part 21 – NSX Blueprints
Part 22 – Code Stream and Jenkins Setup
Part 23 – Code Stream and Artifactory Setup
Part 24 – Add Custom Items to vRA7
Part 25 – Upgrade vRA from 7.1 to 7.2
Part 26 – Adding an Azure Endpoint
Part 27 – Installing vRealize Code Stream for IT DevOps
Part 28 – Configuring Endpoints for vRealize Code Stream for IT DevOps
Part 29 – Using vRealize Code Stream for IT DevOps
Part 30 – Unit Testing with vRealize Code Stream for IT DevOps
Part 31 – Containers on vRealize Automation
Part 32 – vRA 7.3 Component Profiles
Part 33 – vRA 7.5 Upgrade
If you’re looking for a getting started video, check out this Pluralsight course for a quick leg up on vRA 7.
And if you’re looking for a bit more focused detail on using vRA 7, there is also a course for extending the basic capabilities of vRA 7 also from Pluralsight.
vRealize Automation 7 Official Links
Release Notes – http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vra/vrealize-automation-70-release-notes.html
Support Matrix – https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vrealize-automation-70-support-matrix.pdf
VMware Documentation – http://pubs.vmware.com/vra-70/index.jsp
VRealize Automation Load Balancing Configuration Guide – http://pubs.vmware.com/vra-70/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vrealize-automation-70-load-balancing.pdf
Download vRealize Automation 7 from the VMware site – https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/info/slug/infrastructure_operations_management/vmware_vrealize_automation/7_0
vRealize Automation SDK 7.0 – https://developercenter.vmware.com/web/sdk/7.0.0/vrealize-automation
VMware vRealize Automation Cloud Client – https://developercenter.vmware.com/tool/cloudclient/4.0.0
Unofficial Blogs that focus on vRealize Automation
virtualjad.com – Jad El-Zein (Author)
grantorchard.com – Grant Orchard (Author)
vmtocloud.com – Ryan Kelly (Author)
open902.com – Mike Rudloff
Helpful Places for utilities related to vRealize Orchestrator and vRealize Automation
Download the vRA / vCAC Icon Pack here: http://www.vmtocloud.com/vravcac-icon-pack/
The list below are people to follow on twitter for more vRealize Automation related goodies
Jad El-Zein – @virtualjad
Grant Orchard – @grantorchard
VMware Cloud Mgmt – @vmwarecloudmgmt
Yves Sandfort – @yvessandfort
Ryan Kelly – @vmtocloud
Mike Rudloff – @michael_rudloff
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I just started a new job where they are currently using vRealize 6.0.x Automation (vRA) and they currently have the VMware vCloud Suite 6 Enterprise for vSphere Unlimited CPUs. I was curious if the upgrade to vRealize 7.0 is free or if there is a charge. Thank you very much
I honestly don’t know for sure but I think that as long as your licenses are under support, you’re able to upgrade. Contact your representative to be sure.
We were able to upgrade to 7 through our VMware rep. No Charge. You upgrade to the level you were at, we were 6 Advanced so we got 7 Advanced.
I understand there is an import tool now for vRealize 7 that pulls vRA 6 in. Good luck!
BTW, great site Eric!
Eric – this is brilliant work. Thanks so much for this comprehensive vRA resource!
Thank you for the feedback. Glad I could help the community.
Eric, your course is awesome. Loved it!
Looking forward to more advanced courses in vRA and other VMware products like vROM or vRLI etc.
I was just working on a module tonight. It’ll still be a few more weeks but an intermediate course is on the way. Thanks for the note and for watching!
Eric,
Excellent stuff. I have a question. In my company we have VRA 6.2 running with lots of blue prints and customisation. We have installed VRA 7.2 newly. Is there a way to export / import everything from old VRA to new environment? I mean all custom properties, build profiles, entitlement, service catalog etc.
Thanks
I believe you can do this through the cloud client which allows you to import/export configurations through the API.
If it were me, I’d probably try to manually move them over and switch from stubs (vra 6) to event subscriptions (vra 7) at this time. It might be a bit painful, but provides a good avenue to redo things the new way as opposed to trying to keep using stubs.
Good luck on your migration and thanks for reading.
Thanks Eric. Replacing stubs to event subscription is not difficult. Problem, I am facing is migrating many custom properties and build profiles. I found a vco workflow using which I can export build profiles from VRa 6.2 but in new VRA build profiles are called property group so I am not sure if I can use the exported XML file.
Yeah, I’m not saying that can’t be done, but I’ve never messed with it enough to find out. I’ve always rebuilt them, but usually I don’t have very many of them to deal with.
Hi Eric – thanks for the informative post. Can we download vrealize suite as a trial? Thanks
I don’t believe there is a trial license available for that product. Speak to your VMware rep though, I’m sure something can be arranged.
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Hi, love you series of articles – thank you!
I have a totally newbie question that I hope you can answer – I want to enable a blueprint for multiple reservations, without having to replicate the blueprint for each reservation/virtual POC environment.
I’ve posted the question on the VMware community but so far have no response.
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/564450
Any change you would have a minute to help me out?
Perhaps you can use this post as a guide? https://theithollow.com/2017/05/22/vra-placement-decisions-dynamic-form/
Custom property to determine a reservation policy. Slightly different but the same idea.
I don’t agree http://wahlnetwork.com/2014/08/25/vcloud-suite-vcloud-air-and-vrealize-cmp/
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Thanks a lot Eric. You are a life saver. All the information at one single place. Keep it up. 🙂
Thanks for the note! I’m glad to help.
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