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 …

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.

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 …

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 …