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Adding New Property Sets in vRealize Automation 6
Build Profiles in vRA are a great time saver for managing sets of custom properties that share a common purpose. When you create Build Profiles, you can add sets of custom properties without having to refer to the vRA documentation with Property Sets. It would be handy to create your own property sets – for…
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A Postman Collection of vRealize Automation 6 API Calls
I recently had a demo request for the vRealize Automation 6 consumer REST API and I put together a quick collection of Postman REST calls for the demo so I wouldn’t have to type them out or search my history during the demo. I thought I would share them here as others might find this…
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Gotcha: vCM 5.7.3 Install on Windows Server 2012R2
Upgrading my lab and ran into an issue doing a fresh install of vCM 5.7.3 on a two-tier Windows 2012R2 setup. On the collector server, I was having two issues using the “Typical” install… 1 – During the pre-req inspection, I would get a couple of pop-ups stating that “Sysinspectoidwmi” module had stopped working. Clicking…
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Automating a Multi-Action Security Workflow with NSX, vShield Endpoint and vCO
Through a joint effort with Hadar Freehling, one of my esteemed peers here at VMware, we co-developed a proof-of-concept workflow for a network security use case. Hadar created a short video showing and explaining the use case, but in summary this is a workflow that reacts to and remediates a security issue flagged by third-party…
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Install Gotcha: vCAC, Windows Server 2012 and the Guest Agent
If you are using Windows Server 2012 or later for your IaaS install it is recommended that you disable TLS1.2 on the IIS server. From the vCAC 6.1 install guide (IaaS Windows Server Requirements): For certificates using SHA512, TLS1.2 disabled on Windows 2012 machines I have found that if you use self-signed certificates, you will…
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Using a Cloned VM as a SQL Server – Gotcha for vCAC Install
Installing the newest version of vCAC in a lab, I ran into an issue I thought only I would encounter – turns out a peer ran into the very same issue a couple of days later so I thought I would post the problem and solution. In our case we were both installing an new…
John Dias