Hi,
I would like to migrate from VCAC 5.2.3 to vRealize Automation 6.2.5. I am following document VMWare document "Migrating vCLoud Automation Center 5.2.3 to vRealize Automation 6.2".
However vRA appliance 6.2.5 web page doesn't have link to the Migration Tool. I can not find how I can download the Migration Tool executable from vRA.
Any idea where this tool can be found?
Thank you,
Hi
if a user were to build 15 vms in the vra portal they would have console access etc etc.
if these machines need to be accessed the same way by multiple users, could this be done? i know that they can access the servers using rdc client but is it possible for multiple users to have visibility of the machines in their own portal and see the machines so they have console access, reboot, snapshot etc etc?
thanks
Has anyone done migrations FROM Azure to VMware? I need to move 30-ish servers from Azure to VMware and it needs to be as smooth as possible with little to no downtime.
Hi, I have 3 questions about XaaS forms:
Is it possible to apply a regex validation to a text field in an XaaS form? Its possible in the IaaS form so it must be available in XaaS right?
Also I wanted to have a checkbox validating whether a certain value in a text field (such as a hostname) was available for use. This is linked to an action which returns true or false, which works fine. However I wanted another field to only be made visible when this checkbox is ticked, ie the hostname is available. This only works when ticking it manually, the result of the action does not make the second text field visible or invisible - is this just a limitation in the form?
Is it possible to apply any colour to the fields. In particular to the checkbox mentioned above. If I changed this to a text field and the host name was not available for use, I'd like this to say "NOT AVAILABLE" in Red.
Hey guys,
I'm using vRO 7.1 vRA plug-in to provision a blueprint in a particular business group.
I'm retrieving the catalog items for that particular blueprint here:
catalogItems = vCACCAFEEntitiesFinder.findCatalogItems(vCACHost, "Someblueprint")
And then i'm searching for the one entitled to the current business group:
for each(var cat in catalogItems)
if ((cat.organization.getSubtenantLabel().toLowerCase() == targetBG.toLowerCase()))
catalogItem = cat;
When printing the returned catalog item, I can clearly see that this is the correct catalog item.
I then provision the blueprint with a provisioning template here:
ar vmProvisioningRequest = vCACCAFERequestsHelper.getProvisioningRequestForCatalogItem(catalogItem)
var getProvisioningRequestData = vCACCAFERequestsHelper.getProvisioningRequestData(vmProvisioningRequest);
var setRequestData = JSON.parse(getProvisioningRequestData);
//Update provision request with source VM properties
setRequestData.vSphere_Machine_1.data.cpu = srcVmProps.cpu;
setRequestData.vSphere_Machine_1.data.memory = srcVmProps.memory;
//Sends the request to the CAFE host
vCACCAFERequestsHelper.setProvisioningRequestData(vmProvisioningRequest, JSON.stringify(setRequestData));
request = System.getModule("com.vmware.library.vcaccafe.request").requestCatalogItemWithProvisioningRequest(catalogItem,vmProvisioningRequest)
Everything is working fine except the blueprint is being provisioned to the wrong business group.
I'm going insane here trying to figure out what's wrong.
I'd really appreciate your assistance
Hi All,
Did anyone try managing snapshots like create, revert and delete a snapshot using VRA 7 rest API's.
Below is the JSON request paylod, any idea what should the provider-SnapshotReference value should be when i am reverting a snapshot.
{
"type": "com.vmware.vcac.catalog.domain.request.CatalogResourceRequest",
"resourceId": "60c53ce6-f97d-4808-8742-b93f87c8a177",
"actionId": "4b8c52ed-8d67-4c27-9c74-677e54790ce0",
"description": null,
"data": {
"provider-SnapshotReference": null
}
}
i am using a VRA 7 Java sdk for implementing this API call, and this is the error that i get everytime
[Rest Error]: {Status code: 400}, {Error code: 10101} , {Error Source: null},
{Error Msg: Invalid argument.}, {System Msg: Expected EntityReferenceDatum, not java.lang.String for Field: provider-SnapshotReference}
The snapshot already exists for my VM, this is the response for getCatalogResource call,
SNAPSHOT_LIST : MultipleLiteral[[ComplexLiteral[componentTypeId=com.vmware.csp.component.iaas.proxy.provider, componentId=null, classId=dynamicops.api.model.SnapshotViewModel, typeFilter=null, values=LiteralMap[values={SNAPSHOT_DESC=test123, SNAPSHOT_IS_CURRENT=true, SNAPSHOT_IS_MEMORY=true, SNAPSHOT_CREATION_DATE=Tue May 02 15:48:55 AEST 2017}]]]]
Can you please help me in fixing this issue ?
Hello,
Does anyone know if it is possible to delay the notification email a user gets once their machine is activated? We have a blueprint that deploys VMs that run through a Puppet workflow (independent from Orchestrator) after they boot up, and the activation email arrives in the user's inbox 5 to 10 minutes before the machine is actually ready. Could a delay be done through an Event Subscription? Any ideas are welcome!
-Ann
I'm trying to get any useful information from the payload sent by a Change Lease operation, so I can also adjust the destruction time. My workflow is receiving the payload and several __asd_* inputs, but none of them seem to refer to anything I can use to look up the vm or deployment.
None of these actually refer to a catalog item, catalog item request, or resource action request, as far as I can tell. They all throw 404 errors when I try to look them up with another workflow:
payload.requestId
payload.deploymentId
__asd_catalogRequestId
__asd_correlationId
__asd_requestInstanceId
__asd_targetResourceId
I can go through vRO's browser to find requests and items, and then paste those IDs in to my workflows, and that works.
Any nudge in the right direction would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance!
I am in the process of playing with Just-in-Time account provisioning in VMware Identity Manager that will create user account dynamically by demand via SAML. Is there a was to do this within vRA?
HI,
I am trying to create a Self Service portal using vRA 7.2 for View Desktop allocation (Horizon View 7.1). Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
I am exploring vRA event broker and wanted to see if it is possible to fail machine disposal request on vRO workflow failure. So far I have been able to configure event broker to kick off vRO workflow, using provisioning topic, with conditions:
Lifecycle state name: VMPSMasterWorkflow32.Disposing
State phase: PRE
However, I am not sure how to sent a signal back to vRA and fail Disposal request.
I installed some external Identity Connectors and it turns out I deployed the wrong OVA. I used the one from Identity Manager and that turned out to be the wrong one. Now that I know the currently installed collectors do not work I need to remove them and I am not seeing any easy way to remove a collector from the inventory. What is the proper way to remove or delete a collector?
Thanks
Steve
We have added 2 additional text dropdowns to our vRA blueprint. These dropdowns work perfectly when the catalog item is requested through vRA. SNOW will sync the dropdowns and allow selection, but submitting the request never makes it to vRA. I have tried each of the new dropdowns independently without success. If they are both removed, the request works correctly. If one or both are added back, it doesn't make it through again. I have attempted to review the SNOW logs, but unfortunately I do not have a great deal of familiarity with that product. I have included a few screencaps below. Please let me know if you need additional information.
Dialog from SNOW:
Dialog from vRA:
Hi All,
I've recently played with vRA and connected to AWS.
When I create a simple blueprint with a single server on AWS, it let me choose the "instance type" in the build information tab and auto populate the Machine Resources tab.
Since the t2 family from AWS does not have any storage (0GB), it gives me error on the machine resources tab. because the Maximum storage is blank ( please refer to the image below)
Is there any suggestion ?
Hi All,
I've created a catalog item in vRA provision 1 server into AWS. I've configured VPC and subnet in the AWS so each server will be auto allocate a public IP address.
After I provision the server from vRA, I can only see private IP / DNS from vRA portal.
I've verified via the AWS portal that the public IP has been assigned to the server and I can ssh in to the server.
Does anyone know where to find the public IP in vRA ?
Thanks in advance.
What are these users that we see in JEXPLORER
AcctAsUser
Service Principals
Solutions Users
Users
Hi all - still getting my feet wet in vRA. I have a situation where I want to provide Client A and Client B a portal for vRA. Right now my URL is https://cloud.domain.com/vcac/org/client-a
Now, obviously Client B could go to that URL if they guessed it or figured it out, etc. Once there, they'd see the domains available from the drop down and could deduce who my other clients are by clicking "Change to a different domain". Further, I might even have a single tenant who has internal-domain.local that I don't want them to be able to switch out of.
Is there any way to make these selections restricted/not view-able?
Thanks!
Hi all - running vRA 7.2 and referred to the compatibility matrix for guest OS and see Ubuntu 16.04 up there but with a * next to it, however, unless I am missing it, I don't see a footer with what the asterisk indicates. That said, when I run prepare_vra_template.sh I get a message that the version of Ubuntu is incompatible.
Can anyone clarify? Really need to build a blueprint for Ubuntu 16.04 in my environments! Thanks!
Hi all,
Can someone please help me get started in modelling my vRA 7.2 blueprints, reservation policies etc?
I want to use vRA to provide IaaS for an engineering team to host multiple PoC environments in parallel. A vRA user may need access to request machines in POC1 and POC3, but not POC2, for example.
The objective is to add a user to an AD group for the respective POC (e.g. POC1 Users), then they automatically get the entitlement to request either blueprint which gets deployed on the respective reservation. I don't want to have separate blueprints for each POC, or the user to have to select an item from a drop-down at request time as to which POC environment to deploy to. The problem with this is that they may select POC3 during the request, but not be entitled to use that POC.
Can someone please help me join the dots?
Hi All,
Can I use 'python' as a scripting in Software Component in vRealize Automation 7.2 ?
Currently only three script types available - "bash/cmd/powershell". Can use 'Phython' ? If not then is there any way to use it in software component ?
Thanks.