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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. ...

Veeam is a popular backup product for virtualized environments but who wants to spend their days adding and removing machines to backup jobs? Now available on github is a Veeam package for vRealize Orchestrator. This is my gift to you, just in time for the Hollow-days. Available Features The following features are available with the plugin for it’s initial release. Add a VM to an existing backup job Remove a VM from a backup job Start a backup job immediately Add a Build Profile to vRealize Automation Add a VM to a backup job from vRA Remove a VM from a backup job from vRA Some additional functionality could easily be added to your environment using the existing worfklows such as start a backup as a Day 2 operation in vRA, or change backup jobs etc. The world is your oyster. ...

Just deploying virtual machines in an automated fashion is probably the most important piece of a cloud management platform, but you still need to be able to manage the machines after they’ve been deployed. In order to add more functionality to the portal, we can create post deployment “actions” that act on our virtual machine. For instance an action that snapshots a virtual machine would be a good one. We refer to these actions that take place after the provisioning process a “Day 2 Operation”, probably because it’s likely to happen on the second day or later. Clever huh? ...

This last post in the series shows you how Nick Colyer and I to tie everything together. If you want to just download the plugins and get started, please visit Github.com and import the plugins into your own vRealize Orchestrator environment. Download the Plugin from Github NOTE: The first version of this code has been refactored and migrated to Github in Rubrik’s Repository since the time of this initial writing To recap where we’ve been, we: ...

Part four of this series will show you how to lookup a VM in the Rubrik Hybrid Cloud appliance through the REST API by using vRealize Orchestrator. If you’d rather just download the plugin and get using it, check out the link to Github to get the plugin and don’t forget to check out Nick Colyer’s post over at systemsgame.com about how to use it. Download the Plugin from Github NOTE: The first version of this code has been refactored and migrated to Github in Rubrik’s Repository since the time of this initial writing ...

Part three of this series focuses on how Nick Colyer and I built the authentication piece of the plugin so that we could then pass commands to the Rubrik appliance. An API requires a login just like any other portal would. Since this is a a REST API, we actually need to do a “POST” on the login resource to get ourselves an authentication token. Download the Plugin from Github NOTE: The first version of this code has been refactored and migrated to Github in Rubrik’s Repository since the time of this initial writing ...

In part one of this series, we went over some basics about what REST is and the methods involved in it. In this post, we’ll add a REST host and show you how to add some REST Operations. To begin, we need to add a REST host. In plain terms, this is simply a host that will be accepting an API call. In this case, we’re adding the Rubrik Hybrid Cloud Appliance as our REST host. ...