In this post I want to show you a way how you can change a the VM Network with a vRA Day 2 Operation on a vRA Cloud.vSphere.Machine. This is only a Workaround and has some disadvantages. The biggest disadvantage is that you will loos the Deployment History, because we have to onboard the VM…
In this blog post I will show you how you can create automatically a vRealize Automation Deployment name which contains the local Date and Time and makes the Deployment name unique. How you get the local Unix Time with the JavaScript Module “moments” you can reach out the blog Convert the vRO Date with the…
This blog post describes how you can mount a ISO-File to a existing vRA 8 provisioned machine with a “Day 2” Operation. This solution is using a vRealize Orchestrator Workflow and a NFS share where the ISO-Files are stored. How you can configure a NFS Server on Ubuntu 20.04 based OS is described here and…
In the blog post I want to show you how you can create a Website where you can upload ISO Files to a NFS Storage connected to an ESXi host. This is need for a lot of our customers to have the possibility to connect a ISO file to an existing VM. I will explain…
In this blog I will show you how you can configure a NFS-Server on a Linux Ubuntu 20.04 machine and use it with an ESXi Server. Prereqisites Set Up the NFS Server on the Ubuntu Linux machine The first steps are to install the NFS packages, then configure NFS and if the firewall active set…
Some times ago a customer asked me whether it is possible to create an approval policy for a specific filed in the vRA custom form. The customer has created a custom form where the requester can request a firewall rule. For this the customer can add a port and the customer wants to get an…
In the blog post Setup a Docker Host for vRealize Automation is explained how to setup a Docker Host on Ubuntu 20.04. In this blog post we will add the previous created Docker Host to vRealize Code Stream
This blog post explain step by step how to setup a docker host which is needed to run CI Task from Code Stream. If a CI Task started by vRealize Automation Code Stream a specified docker container will be started on the docker host for the lifetime of the Code Stream Pipeline. The Ci tasks…
vRA 8.6.1 comes with the wrong Salt Version to use the Day 2 Operation of the VM “Apply Salt Configuration” to install the Minion or Run a State File for example. The installed version is the 3003, but needed is the 3004. this blog post explain how to update to version 3004. Download the File…
This blog post is about installing a minion on an existing VM provisioned by vRA 8.6.1 using the Day 2 Operation “Apply Salt Configuration”