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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

Failover of Manager Service


Since the Manager Service falls under the active-passive HA design, at any point in time, only one node can play an active role.

Finding the active node

It is easy to identify which Manager Service node is currently active using the following options:

  • Browse the URL: https://<FQDN-of-of-loadbalancer-virtual-IP>/VMPS2, that is, https://MGR.PKCT.LOCAL/VPMS2. Go to the end of the XML output and look for the soap:address location keyword, which reveals the FQDN of the machine where the Manager Service is active:

  • Via the NSX load balancer, do the following:

    1. Log in to vCenter Web Client and navigate to the Networking & Security tab

    2. Click on NSX Edges and select the edge node where the load balancer service is enabled

    3. Click the Pools option and click Show Pool Statistics (in this screenshot, both the CAFÉ nodes are active):

Failover test

To simulate the failure, we stopped the service (VMware vCloud Automation Center Service) from service.msc MMC in the active (MGR1...