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vRO SecureString vs EncryptedString

vRO SecureString vs EncryptedString

What's the difference between a SecureString and an EncryptedString in vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)? This post explains it.

Cloud-Init with vRealize Automation and vSphere - No CD Drive!

Cloud-Init with vRealize Automation and vSphere - No CD Drive!

This article explains how to use Cloud-Init with vRealize Automation and vSphere without requiring a CD drive in every VM.

Automatic Deployment Names in vRA 8.x

Automatic Deployment Names in vRA 8.x

How to make vRealize Automation (vRA) deployment names unique without having to bother users with entering one

Preparing Vault for integration with vRA

Before vRA / vRO can automate Vault and create high-entropy passwords for new workloads, Vault must be prepared. This post explains the steps taken.

Creating unique passwords in Vault for new vRA workloads

Creating unique passwords in Vault for new vRA workloads

Generate and secure unique complex passwords in HashiCorp Vault for new workloads provisioned by VMware vRealize Automation

Custom Naming in vRealize Automation 8.x (Pt. 1)

Custom Naming in vRealize Automation 8.x (Pt. 1)

vRA 8.x offers several built-in mechanisms for naming workloads. This article covers them briefly and starts the process to go fully custom.

vRO 7.6 XaaS form support clarification

When vRealize Orchestrator 7.6 became generally available last week (and related to the simultaneous availability of vRealize Automation 7.6), an eagle-eyed VMware Partner spotted a statement in the release notes [https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Orchestrator/7.6/rn/VMware-vRealize-Orchestrator-76-Release-Notes.html] under the Feature and Support Notice section.

Automated NIC names in Linux on VMware vSphere

A colleague of mine was working with a customer recently on some changes to their automated VM provisioning process (they're not vRA customers… yet). He got stuck trying to get around a particular challenge with the automatic naming of network interfaces in certain Linux distributions. The customer in question is

Extensibility course in vRA / vRO (Feb 2018)

A new vRA / vRO Extensibility course is scheduled to be held in the UK in February 2018. It will provide detailed information on how to leverage the power of vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestrator. I should point out that it's a beta course, so it may not be 100% polished

Automating vSphere VM disk zeroing with vRA7 and vRO

A long time ago, on a project far back in time, the team that I was part of was given a requirement to zero the disks of VMs before they were deleted by vRA / vRO (or vCAC and vCO as they were called back then). One of my colleagues on

How to change the vRA 7.2 "All Services" icon using vRO

This post was inspired by Ryan Kelly's recent post of a similar title in which he revealed how to change the “All Services” icon [http://www.vmtocloud.com/how-to-change-the-vra-7-2-all-services-icon/] in the vRA 7.2 Catalog tab. Shortly after seeing that, I noticed that Ricky El-Qasem had also posted on the

Some vRO IP address actions

I just wanted to take this opportunity to share a few vRO actions from my library that I've recently tidied up. Some started life as scriptable tasks in other workflows but it made sense to strip those bits out and put them in to discreet actions to enable better re-use.

Farewell FlowGrab

If you've been using vRO (formerly vCO) for any length of time, you might have encountered a third party source code repository service called “FlowGrab” in your travels. It was a great idea and had great potential but its owners weren't able to maintain and develop it as they wanted

Javascript Programming Videos (Useful for vRO)

Christiaan Roeleveld [http://automate-it.today] (a.k.a. @vChrisR) shared a couple of videos about Javascript programming on Twitter the other day. I thought I'd pop them on here for others to find (and also so I can find them again!).

New vRO and PowerCLI Automation Training

A lot of the projects that I work on have an element of automation to them and I've been asked a few times by customers if there is a training course available that will help them get started in understanding vRO and VMware's PowerCLI cmdlets and how they can be

vRA 7 / vRO 7 REST error (java.security.cert.CertificateException)

Whilst I was with a customer recently, I hit an SSL related issue whilst trying to put together a vRO workflow to orchestrate the creation of a load-balancer configuration on a Citrix Netscaler VPX. Adding the REST host(s) to vRO was accomplished without any issue, but when I came

Changing vRA ExternalWfStubs Timeouts

I saw a question on Twitter this morning that I thought warranted a quick post: [/content/images/wordpress/2015/11/201511324_111120-CapturFiles.png]The default timeout for the various workflow stubs is 30 minutes, but they can be changed. As always, take backup copies and be careful! The six stubs

It's time to retire "vCO"

Before anyone gets in a huff, I'm not suggesting that a key part of VMware's automation, orchestration and cloud functionality be consigned to the bin. This is about the name. It was Q3 / Q4 last year (2014) that VMware announced the changes to its product names [http://www.vmware.com/

Open Orchestrator JNLP files on OSX

New job. New laptop. But of course it isn't set up like the old one. It doesn't have all of the tweaks that I made over the years on it. One annoyance, what with me being a heavy and frequent user of vRealize Orchestrator, is that client.jnlp files downloaded

...Hello VMware!

I've been a user of VMware's products since finding VMware Workstation in the early noughties but things really took off for me in 2007 with ESX3. I've long thought that I might work for VMware one day if the circumstances were right. As of yesterday, it became a reality. This

vCAC 6.1 Removes VM NICs when a description is changed

Maybe my google foo is broken, but I couldn't see any mention of this in VMware's KB library. I'm trying to find out if it's also an issue in vRA 6.2 too. Edit 14/05/2015: I'm reliably informed that this is fixed in 6.2. So, what's the

Since You've Been Gone...

It's been some time since I posted anything on this site (over 4 months in fact). There could be any number of reasons I could come up with as to why that is. The truth though is that I've had my head down on a large cloud project (lots of

vRealize Automation 6.2 is GA

Ladies and gentlemen, start your downloads! vRealize Automation 6.2 (formerly known as vCloud Automation Center) has gone GA today. Beside the usual raft of fixes, the major focus for this release is the integration with vRealize Operations 6.0 (formerly known as vCenter Operations Manager). Download VMware vRealize Automation