OK, so everyone loves a top 5 so here is a list of my top 5 resources for learning and deploying vRealize Automation. 1. VMware Hands on Labs. Take ‘HOL-SDC-1633 vRealize Automation 7: What’s New‘. – Despite the name this is a really in depth tutorial and you will want to complete the entire lab. This will give you a good feel
Month: September 2016
Before purchasing or installing the software one of the first things you need to understand is what vRA is trying to solve. Unlike what VMware has released previously, vRA is a very different and tries to solve the problems related to managing multiple cloud platforms and the end to end delivery of IT services. Yes, there are a lot of tools
Before I start this post I want to put it into perspective. Up until now I have been working in infrastructure roles for a number of years, specialising in virtualization (mostly VMware), servers, storage and networking. A lot has changed recently and we can’t go a day without hearing or reading about “DevOps”. I don’t want to get into what DevOps is
So today my heart sunk when I tried to log into the vRA 7 IaaS portal and was presented with this lovely message: Now, I had just recently attempted an upgrade of vRA 7.0.1 to 7.1 and failed miserably (more on that in a later post) so I had to roll back all of my changes (reverting snapshots, etc.) and