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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

Installing the second DEM Worker and proxy agent


In this section, we will install and configure the second DEM Worker and proxy agent nodes.

Prerequisites

Here are the prerequisites for the installation:

  • To prepare the virtual machine for IaaS node installation, follow the instructions from Chapter 2, Distributed Installation Using Custom Certificates, under the IaaS prerequisites and virtual machine preparation topic

  • Since the vRA PreReq PowerShell script will not be executed, manually secure the following three requirements:

    • Install .NET 4.5.2

    • Enable MSDTC (Refer to the IaaS WEB installation topic in Chapter 2, Distributed Installation Using Custom Certificates)

    • Start the Secondary Logon service from services.msc until the installation is complete

Worker installation

Log in to the WRK2 node as the domain user or the service account user created for installation and perform steps 1 and 2 while installing the IaaS WEB node:

  1. In the Installation Type page, select Custom Install and then choose Distributed...