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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

Creating a vSphere blueprint


Here are the steps to create a vSphere blueprint:

  1. Log out as Fabric User from the vRA portal (https://CAFE-IP-o r-FQDN/vcac/org/tenantname).

  2. Log in to vRA portal as Tenant Administrator or as a Business Group user:

    Note

    Blueprint will be accessible by every Business Group in a Tenant if it is created using a Tenant admin. Likewise, if you wish to allow blueprint access to users within a Business Group, log in as a business group user and create a blueprint.

  3. Let's navigate to Infrastructure | Blueprints | Blueprints.

  4. Select New Blueprint | Virtual | vSphere (vCenter):

  5. The first step in creating a blueprint is to start with Blueprint Information:

  6. Click on the Build Information tab:

    1. Select the Linked Clone option for faster provision and other storage benefits.

    2. The name used in vCenter customization specification manager and customization spec should match.

    3. Keep the settings in the Properties and Actions tabs to defaults unless you want to change them.

    4. Click OK to conclude...