Data Collection in vRealize Automation is a process that keeps the vRA database in sync with endpoints such as vCenter Server. Most people reading this most likely already know how clunky this process is. Also, It’s not immediately obvious how this process can be automated from a vRO prospective. If you are performing any tasks against objects on your endpoints,
Category: vRealize Automation
I wrote this post some time ago but I felt that it didn’t include some other use cases where you would want to resolve a vCenter virtual machine. I also previously used code that was provided by the vRO appliance that I wasn’t too keen on (logging was a bit light and there was code to search using the BIOS
This post is going to detail how we can interact with the IaaS servers and work with the objects within the Entity Framework. I have also written a number of actions that provide a standard interface to use when working with the entities and perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on them. Note: these actions are designed to be used
When I work with endpoints in vRO, I like to use actions to discover these instead of hard coding them as attributes or within configuration elements. Hard coding of these endpoints requires manual configuration steps when moving code between environments, which is not ideal. I felt it would be a good idea to include this post early on within this
Oh what a joy of an upgrade this one was. Not that it was too difficult, just a tad annoying that an inline upgrade was not possible (or maybe just not supported?, I dunno) and the only way to upgrade to vRealize Orchestrator 7.5 was through a new deployment of the external appliance and migrating the content and settings across.
vRealize Automation 7.x is currently in a sort of ‘split brain’ where there exists two data models which can be used to interact with vRA objects. One is objects that are backed by the Cafe appliance / PostgreSQL database and the other which uses the older, entity framework (IaaS servers). This post is going to focus on the entity framework,
I do a lot of work that involves either creating new virtual hard disks or attaching existing ones to virtual machines in VMware vSphere. I do all of this through vRealize Orchestrator, written in JavaScript (yum). As part of this task, I always ensure that the datastores that I am creating disks on have sufficient capacity for these new disks.
When a vRO workflow or action is called from vRA, additional input parameters (in addition to those specified as the workflow/action inputs) are provided in the Execution Context object of the workflow. These can be very useful as they contain additional data that can be used inside the workflows. A couple of good examples would be the user that requested