Purpose This is the second post on VMware Cloud Services specifically on Cloud Assembly(CAS). In this post I am going to talk about tags and inputs. As always, I will record a video on the same topics as well. This is for those friends who are more inclined towards visual learning than reading. I sincerely hope you find this post useful. Introduction Before I even start, let me clear few facts. Read More

Purpose This is going to be a series of posts deep diving on VMware Cloud Assembly Services (CAS). In this series I am going to talk about different aspects of VMware Cloud Assembly Services, e.g tags, projects, blueprints etc. As always, I will record a video on the same topics as well. This is keeping in mind of those friends who are more inclined towards visual learning than reading. I sincerely hope you find this series useful. Read More

Purpose I wrote a blog on Auto-Scaling and got many questions regarding that topic. Also, after the release of vRealize Automation 7.3.1 onwards, the workflows stopped working. So, this post has the answer to all those questions and the updated package which will work with vRealize Automation versions upwards from 7.3. Though this post mainly covers the answers to the questions, it contains information about the subject as a whole and can be further categorized into the following sub topics: Read More

Purpose I recently moved my blog from Wordpress to Hexo. Also, I moved hosting platform from Siteground to S3 (AWS). This blog post details the rationale behind the decisions. It also describes how I learnt to build a Hexo theme using VMware Clarity environment. So overall this captures the following topics: My journey from Wordpress to Hexo From hosted environment to static self hosting And finally building my own theme in hexo Read More

Purpose Recently I got a request to build a Weblogic-as-a-Service in vRealize Automation for a customer. This post provides details of that custom built Out-of-the-Box Oracle Weblogic-as-a-Service in vRealize Automation. Requirement: The requirement is to deploy a Weblogic Cluster as a whole. Also, user should be able to choose any number of nodes in the cluster at runtime. For example, it may be anything within the range 1 to 20, etc. Read More

Purpose I am attending this year’s VMworld US and decided to write my experience so far. Read on to know what’s new with VMware and other technologies. Details: First, this is an amazing experience. If you are someone working with VMware technologies, then at least once you need to be in a VMworld. It’s amazing to see so many people in a single place talking about the same technology. The energy is infectious and you get that sense of belonging. Read More

Purpose Did you ever have the need to manually edit the vRealize Automation vPostgres database? This post covers exactly that topic. It provides detailed steps on how you can access the database and modify it. So without further ado start reading the post. Introduction: There are times when we are forced to modify the inbuilt database of vRA server. Whereas very little documentation is available around it. This is for a good reason though. Read More

Purpose The [first part of the post]{% post_link shared-db-service-vrealize-automation %} dealt with “Out of the box Shared DB as a Service”. In addition to other points, where I explained about Shared DB as a Service using a vRO package. Limitation of that package is, it only creates the DB in real Database. Created databases do not appear in vRA items list. Also any Day 2 operation is not possible on the created Databases. Read More

Purpose This blog post provides details of shared DB-as-a-Service capability in vRealize Automation. This functionality provided by vRO workflows. A vRO package was created and is available here. Details of the required tools and configuration steps are also provided. Also, the repository details of the package given. Introduction: In last few months, I got many requests for shared DB-as-a-Service for private cloud. Specifically, the private clouds built with VMware vRealize Automation. Read More

Purpose Do you want to create custom dynamic groups in vROps which matches the tags created in vCenter server? You can do this manually, but you have large number of tags created. How to tackle that programmatically? This post covers the exact point. Read on to know how you can automatically create custom dynamic groups in vROps server. These groups will match the tags created in vCenter server. Introduction: Last week I got a request from my friend Sunny Dua about a script which will automatically create custom groups in vROps server as per vCenter server tags. Read More