Hello,
One of our customer is using vmbased public cloud solution. They are manually handling most of the processes, provisioning and decommissioning. They want to revamp the existing cloud in such a way that there should be full scale automation for the cloud components, load balancer, firewall, IPS/IDS. Please guide if we can achieve it with the help of vRealize Suite and VMWare NSX. Kindly send some links or if there is any pdf for more detail.
Thanks in advance..
I had some blueprints that were stuck "in progress" so I did some research and found an article (http://open902.com/vra7-delete-stuck-in-progress-deployments/) to delete the entries. The procedure worked perfectly except for the fact that the deployments I deleted had leases on them. Now that the lease has expired, vRA is issuing requests to expire the deployments but keep failing b/c the deployments do not exist. This happens every three hours.
Request - Expire - <deployment name>
Status: Failed
Request initialization failed: Rejecting blueprint request [ID]. There are other active requests on the corresponding deployment.
Any suggestions before I contact Support?
I'm using the sample blueprint available on the exchange website as reference. One change I made is that the guest machine uses a vsphere customization spec to join a domain. Everything works as designed in the sample, but as soon as try to specify a domain account for the SQL service account or a domain account for the SQL sys admin account the deployment fails. I suspect that the guest machine is not a member of the domain when the software component kicks in.
Is there a way to ensure the machine has completed any vsphere specific customization (join the domain) before the software component kicks in?
hi All,
I am trying to modify the "Create a user with a password in an organizational unit" workflow to add the extra attributes to the user account.
System.getModule("com.vmware.library.microsoft.activeDirectory").createUserWithPassword(accountName,password,confirmPassword,domainName,displayName,container) ;
In the above command, how to add decription field to the user account.
kindly help.
Regards,
Vasanth Vignesh M R
All, I'm running into some concerns with our current layout of Reservations and Business Groups and want to know how others in IT are doing this. Currently, our Business Groups are aligned with teams in our organization. Let's call that team Engineering for the sake of discussion. The "Engineering" Business Group would use the "Engineering" Reservation. There are also a few other BG's and respective Reservations. The big reason for this layout was that some teams need to only see some Services, whereas other teams only see one for example. As I understand it, the only way to enforce that line of security is via Business Groups and what Services they're entitled to see and use.
Is anyone using a separate model where you have one Reservation/Business Group per datacenter (or cluster)? I like the idea of managing fewer Reservations, but the side effect is there would be one Business Group that all the teams would be a part of therefor limiting what I can do with security and with who sees what.
Would love your thoughts on this, thanks!
I have vRA 7.1 and vRO 7.1
I installed the Custom Hostnaming package for vRA7 from https://dailyhypervisor.com/vrealize-automation-custom-hostnaming-extension/
But the problem is, it installed the special VMPSMasterWorkflow32.Requested under the default tenant which doesn't appear to be available to the subtenant. Even lower in the comments, someone stated:
Thanks for updating this to work with 7! I did notice a small item regarding multi-tenancy. It looks like you can only run the install for a single tenant. When I deployed this I deployed it to the default tenant which worked great, but when I ran the install workflow for a subtenant the workflow skipped creating the EBS. Once I deleted the EBS from the default tenant and then ran the install again against the subtenant it correctly created the EBS for the subtenant. I haven’t dug into it yet but I suspect it might be something to do with the switch script in the workflow. Thanks again for all of your hard work!
But the question is, how do you delete the "EBS" from the default tenant, and run the install against the subtenant?
Thanks in advance
I have created a custom Xaas Blueprint that executes a workflow in Orchestrator to spin up a VM. I have this blueprint mapped to a custom "Provisioned Resource" (in this case [Hosted - SMS]).
The only Entitlement Actions that seem to be allowed are those that I create in "Resource Actions" under Design (where you create an Xaas Blueprint).
Is there anyway to tie into the default "Machine" actions like "Connect to Remote Console (Machine)" or will I have to somehow create those on my own? You can see in the screenshot I have added the entitlements but they do not show up under Actions.
Can anyone help provide some clarification.
I have a set of properties that I wish to use on several blueprint definitions, so I went in to the Administration > Property Groups section of vRealize 7.2 and entered in the properties.
I then went into the Design section and created a new blueprint.
I opened up the blueprint options > Properties > Property Groups and included the group I created.
I have a software component designed that has a property exposed and I want to bind that to a value from the blueprint property group I created, but it doesn't show up as an option for binding when I click edit on the property. I get the name of the container (MachineBase), the name of the software component (MapNeworkDrive_1) as well as _resource, but nothing that points to the blueprint properties or property group.
messing around with vra 7.2 and inside the vSphere.local tenant, I see a couple sample blueprints. Where would one get the templates that goes with them??
Hi All,..
I have just installed vRA 7.2 for my company. but no resource has shown up in the fabric group resource.
the logs show Errors like:
(This exception was caught: The request failed with HTTP status 400: Bad Request.) from vRM.
and
the Error (This is an invalid script resource request.) from (GUI Administration WebAdmin).
Please I need your help urgently.
Thanks in advanced
Taq
Hi,
I try to display a dropdown Box in a Blueprint request - using an vco external Value which is working fine so far.
But the vCO action needs to get a input parameter for tenant and subtenant/business group. Is it possible to pass this internal variables to the vCO Action ?
I tested everything but I can only pass a custom property that is defined in the blueprint - which is not dynamic.
Thanks
Jens
Hi,
I am planning to use VRA 7.x/6.x Java SDK to do following operations for environment provisioning:
I am referring VRA 7.x Java SDK and java API documentation from below URL:
https://developercenter.vmware.com/web/sdk/7.0.0/vrealize-automation
There are 1000 of classes created under package "com.vmware.vcac.*". I am unable to find out sample java code which will give me an idea about, How to use Java SDK classes for environment provisioning using VRA?
Can anyone provide me any reference document which will help me to do so?
Thanks,
Mitul Shah
Has anybody found a mechanism to find/filter by criteria on custom synced properties for Cafe Users? (or anything other than account name and given name for that matter)
See specifically getPrincipalsByPrincipalSearchCriteria(...). It does not appear that the string criteria allows for search strings that provide attribute based look-ups.
We can get user objects based off of account name or givenName, but the criteria object doesn't appear to be able to hold something along the lines of...
MyDirectorySyncedCustomAttribute == "FINDME"
Example...
var principalSearch = new vCACCAFEPrincipalSearchCriteria(tenantName); principalSearch.setDomain(domain); principalSearch.setLocalUsersOnly(false); principalSearch.setCriteria(searchTerm); var client = cafeHost.createAuthenticationClient(); var service = client.getAuthenticationPrincipalService(); var users = service.getPrincipalsByPrincipalSearchCriteria(principalSearch);
am working on automation of blueprint creation in vrealize automation through cloudclient.
i have instaled cloudclient, and logging to vra through commandlets. and then export the blueprint into json format and later using that json for creating the new blueprints.
i am able to create blueprint through json file, but i have some concern regarding below points:
how to add customization spec and publish options for blueprints creation in vRA.
can anyone has idea about that. please help
I am trying to delete an existing hard disk of a VM as Day 2 operation through API but couldn't find a way to do it.
I can increase the existing disk capacity, added new disk to a VM through API but not sure what is the API request for deleting a hard disk.
Any help would be appreciated.
I had a question about assigning vRO Workflows to blueprints. I followed this link to associate a workflow to my blueprint. Specifically, on step 2 where it talks about assigning a state change workflow to a blueprint. After assigning a workflow to a blueprint via the BuildingMachine stub, I refresh my blueprint in vRA and do not have any custom properties added. What I ended up doing was manually adding the following as Custom Properties in my blueprint:
ExternalWFStubs.MachineProvisioned
ExternalWFStubs.MachineProvisioned.diskSize
ExternalWFStubs.MachineProvisioned has a value of the Workflow ID I am calling from vRO. When I run a request from my blueprint now I do have an option to set the disk size, and the workflow does execute correctly. This does not seem like the best way to do this, however. Is there something that I am missing in the initial configuration?
Hi,
We are migrating vRA from 6.2.3 to vRA 7.1.0.
We installed fresh vRA 7.1.0. Configured directory in it but in syncing process we are getting error as below:
Kindly suggest.
Error message: Failed to complete sync due to Exception.
Hi,
I want to created a Custom Widget that will be appearing at the EndUser dasboard portal . The Widget will have somekind of info which is done via a workflow or somekind of code.
is it possbile?any idea how to achieve somthing similiar if not ?
Hello,
we are currently evaluation VMware NSX and vRA.
Regarding this, i have some questions regarding NSX and vRA.
Our situation:
We are a service provider. The customer ESXi hosts are in dedicated Cluster (one cluster per Customer) but in one vCenter (customer does not have access to vCenter, PaaS).
We installed vRA, created an tenant for each customer. Everything fine. Every customer can only create stuff in their Cluster.
Then we added NSX and created some securty groups. And here is my first questions:
Every customer see ALL! security groups of all customers in the Blueprint Desginer. As we only have one vCenter we also have only one NSX Manager.
How can we seperate the customer security groups?
Second questions:
I can assign security groups via the blueprint designer. I also added a ressource action to run the NSX "Add VM to security group workflow".
But is there no way to show the currently assigned security groups in vRA?
Thank you
Hi,
I am trying to create a custom property in vRA7, so that I can call my vRO workflow through event subscription, based on the user input while provisioning a VM.
Thanks,
Naineyess