The other day, I took a leap and activated the IDM integration for my Aria Automation Config instance, after months of punting it down the road and just logging in as root. Unfortunately, once I activated the integration I immediately got a 403 error once I tried to login! Do not pass go, do not login! Encountering a …

I was attempting to leverage the saltConfiguration property in a vRA Cloud Template and ran into an issue where vRA would deploy the VM and then fail with an error indicating that the Salt Minion deploy failed. I was particularly puzzled by this because the cloud template I was using had worked previously, so it was a …

vROPS has a feature called Business Intent, which allows us to control the placement of virtual machines through the use of vSphere tags. Business intent allows us to control the placement of machines on a cluster basis or a host basis, allowing you to optimize the performance and placement of vms in accordance with …

I've been doing a bit of work in Code Stream lately, and was running into some issues with a pipeline I built a while ago, but had updated the Cloud Template it was interacting with, as a result of these changes in the template I was now getting the error message Unable to resolve task input property : …

When I was advocating for vRealize Automation while in my previous role, a frequent question I was asked by application owners was: "Can I auto scale my application, like <insert cloud provider here> allows me to?" This question often lead to defensive responses on my part.

Not long ago I decided to retire a vCenter from my lab - but I didn't retire the VCSA properly, leaving its linked mode partners with an error. While there is a KB for this, I wanted to share some notes on my experience. The key piece of information that you need is the Primary Network Identifier of the …

Today we will be reviewing the workflow package used to handle all of the aspects of this automated process. We will be leveraging several built workflows and actions, a set of community sourced workflows, and a simple workflow that stitches them together. The other posts in this series can be found below: Day Two …

I am migrating my blog to hugo. I did a fair amount of debugging on my local system, but with the age of some of the early posts, and this now being the second major migration: home grown blog software -> Wordpress -> Hugo, I fully expect some amount of stuff to be weird. Im going to simply take the approach of …

Last time we laid out the general approach of our automation framework. Today we will be completing some of the per-requisite technical tasks to enable vROPS to apply a layer of governance and detection to our framework. The other posts in this series can be found below: Day Two Automation Self Service Framework – Part …

In my years on the administration and engineering side of the VMware world a task I was frequently responsible for was creating policies around the standards of my environment and then defining a process to ensure those policies were adhered to.  Some examples of the policies I authored was things around snapshot …