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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

Preparing the vSphere guest OS template


One of the significant things to be done before preparing a guest operating system as a blueprint in vRealize Automation is to ensure the supportability stance from VMware. The supportability information is detailed in https://www.vmware.com/pdf/vrealize-automation-62-support-matrix.pdf.

Note

This data will be published for every release of vRealize Automation.

In the next few pages, we will learn the How to of configuring a Windows guest OS and a Linux guest OS before they are attached to a blueprint.

Scope

  • Windows: Windows 2012 and Windows 2008 R2

  • Linux: RHEL 6.1 Server

Note

If a manager service component is installed in a Windows 2012 machine, ensure that you install MS-KB-2973337 in the IaaS server. This patch is installed to gain the support for SHA512-based certificates with TLS 1.2.

The guest agent installation process is discussed in the following section: