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Learning VMware vRealize Automation

By : SRIRAM RAJENDRAN, Sriram Rajendran
Book Image

Learning VMware vRealize Automation

By: SRIRAM RAJENDRAN, Sriram Rajendran

Overview of this book

With the growing interest in Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC), vRealize Automation offers data center users an organized service catalog and governance for administrators. This way, end users gain autonomy while the IT department stays in control, making sure security and compliance requirements are met. Learning what each component does and how they dovetail with each other will bolster your understanding of vRealize Automation. The book starts off with an introduction to the distributed architecture that has been tested and installed in large scale deployments. Implementing and configuring distributed architecture with custom certificates is unarguably a demanding task, and it will be covered next. After this, we will progress with the installation. A vRealize Automation blueprint can be prepared in multiple ways; we will focus solely on vSphere endpoint blueprint. After this, we will discuss the high availability configuration via NSX loadbalancer for vRealize Orchestrator. Finally, we end with Advanced Service Designer, which provides service architects with the ability to create advanced services and publish them as catalog items.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning VMware vRealize Automation
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring the CAFÉ appliance in HA


Now that we have completed the installation of the vPostgres database and identity appliance, let's start the installation of the CAFÉ appliance. In this section, let's look at the recipe of configuring two CAFÉ nodes in cluster mode.

Prerequisites

Allocate the hostname and IP address, and create DNS records (A and PTR) for the CAFÉ virtual IP in the load balancer and two CAFÉ nodes (CAFE1 and CAFE2):

  1. Create NSX load balancer configurations for CAFÉ.

  2. Freshly deploy two VMware vRealize Automation 6.2 appliances without any configurations (again, I'm not going to walk through OVA deployment in this book).

  3. Power on and perform the following checks in both the CAFÉ appliances:

    • Connect to the VAMI page of the virtual appliance: https://<IP_address-or_FQDN-of-CAFE(1/2)-appliance|:5480.

    • Navigate to Network | Address.

      Check whether the hostname and DNS entries are accurate.

      The IP settings should be set to static.

    • Navigate to Admin- | Admin, and check whether SSH is...