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Now it’s time to create a new tenant in our vRealize Automation portal. Let’s login to the portal as the system administrator account as we have before. Click the Tenants tab and then click the “New” button. Give the new tenant a name and a description. Then enter a URL name. This name will be appended to this string: https://[vraappliance.domain.name]/vcac/org/ and will be the URL that users will login to. In my example the url is https://vra7.hollow.local/vcac/org/labtenant. Click “Submit and Next”. ...

In order to setup Active Directory Integrated Authentication, we must login to our default tenant again but this time as our “Tenant Administrator” (we setup in the previous post) instead of the system administrator account that is created during initial setup. Once you’re logged in, click the Administration tab –> Directories Management –> Directories and then click the “Add Directory” button. Give the directory a descriptive name like the name of the ad domain for example. Then select the type of directory. I’ve chosen the “Active Directory (Integrated Windows Authentication)” option. This will add the vRA appliance to the AD Domain and use the computer account for authentication. Note: you must setup Active Directory in the default (vsphere.local) tenant before it can be used in the subtenants. ...

We’ve got vRA installed and thats a good start. Our next step is to login to the portal and start doing some configuration. Go to https://vra-appliance-name-orIP and enter the administrator login that you specified during your install. Unlike prior versions of vRealize Automation, no domain vsphere.local domain suffix is required to login. To start, Lets add some local users to our vSphere.local tenant. Click on the vsphere.local tenant. Click on the “Local users” tab and then click the “New” button to add a local account. I’ve created a vraadmin account that will be a local account only used to manage the default tenant configurations. ...

If 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 P luralsight course for a quick leg up on vRA 7. ...

This is our first stop in our journey to install vRealize Automation 7 and all of it’s new features. This post starts with the setup of the environment and assumes that you’ve deployed a vRealize Automation appliance from an OVA and that you’ve also got a Windows Server deployed so that we can install the IAAS components on it. After you’ve deployed the vRA7 OVA, login to the appliance with the root login and password supplied during your OVA deployment. ...

vRealize Automation is at its best when it can leverage multiple infrastructures to provide a hybrid cloud infrastructure. One of the things we might want to do is to set up VMware vCloud Air integration with your vRA instance. To start, we need to have a vCloud Air account which you can currently sign up for with some initial credits to get you started for free. Once you’ve got an account you’ll be able to setup a VDC and will have some catalogs that you can build VMs from. If you’re concerned about these steps, don’t worry a default VDC including some storage and a network will be there for you by default. ...

I recently made some changes to my home lab and had to create a new Cluster because of my EVC mode when I was faced with migrating my vC Ops vApp to the new cluster. I moved the hosts over, but the vApp wouldn’t go with them like the virtual machines did. vAppMigrate1 My first attempt was to export the vApp to an OVF file and reimport it to the new cluster which failed with an error. ...

During the process of setting up a new vCenter Server in my lab, I ran into an issue adding SSL Certificates to my vCenter services. I followed my own blog posts about how to do this so that I wouldn’t miss anything, but nevertheless ran into an error that took me quite a while to get fixed. After creating all my certificate requests using the VMware SSL Automation Tool, I updated my SSO with my custom certificate without issue. The next step is to make sure the Inventory Service trusts the new SSO Certificate, which also went without a hitch. ...

There are a few Linux commands that vSphere Administrators should know for basic troubleshooting purposes and I wanted to take a second to review them in case you’ve typically been a Windows Administrator (like me). First, traversing the Linux file system is pretty similar to going through Windows directories from the command line. change directories Windows : CD C:dirname Linux : cd /dirname Show files and folders Windows : dir ...

There are a ton of features now that VMware has that may require either an SSD or a Non-SSD to be available in your ESXi host. Host Caching requires an SSD and Partner products like PernixData also require an SSD to be available on the host. VMware’s Virtual SAN (VSAN) currently require both an SSD and a Non-SSD to be available. I’ve seen that many people want to try out these products in a lab environment, but don’t want to go out and buy another disk just to familiarize themselves with the product. In these cases, you can fool ESXi into thinking there is a device of the type you want. This can be done by using the esxcli commands on the host as documented here on VMware’s site. ...