When provisioning virtual machines to a cloud provider, users usually cannot exactly specify how much memory or CPUs should be used by a virtual machine. Instead cloud providers come with predefined flavors. vRealize Automation 8 also allows to define flavors. That is quite simple, hence this blog post is...
In order to create a blueprint with a virtual machine, there is need to import images from the underlying cloud provider. In contrast to vRealize Automation 7, administrators have full control which images should be imported into vRealize Automation 8, hence there is a dedicated menu item called “Image...
After having discussed the basic principles behind Projects, we will continue with showing how to set up and configure Projects. Projects can be created from within the Infrastructure > Projects page by clicking [+ New Project]. In order to create a Project, we have to provide a Name and...
In the previous blog posts, we described how to deploy vRealize Automation 8. In order to get it fully working, we have to configure Identity & Access Management accordingly. Adding a directory can be done from the Lifeycycle Manager console as well as from the Identity Manager. The GUI...
In the first part of the tutorial, we used the Easy Installer to perform a complete installation of the vRealize Automation. However, there are use cases, where this might not be appropriate: You already have an Identity Manager deployed You don’t want to install all components in one environment...
The process of deploying vRealize Automation has been totally revised with vRealize Automation 8. The biggest changes are: There are no Windows IaaS components anymore Installation is done via the VMware Lifecycle Manager Basic architecture Internaly, vRealize Automation consists of the following components: vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager: This component...
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