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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 external vPostgres DB in HA for the vRealize Automation CAFÉ appliance


It is recommended that you use an external instance of the vPostgres database for the CAFÉ appliance in a high availability (HA) environment. However, since the release of VMware vRealize Automation standalone, VMware vFabric Postgres is the end of availability and is no longer available as a standalone product. To address customers' needs, VMware developed a way to utilize the database instance located in the VMware vRealize Automation appliance in HA mode without having to incur additional licensing.

The following steps are clearly documented at http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2108923. We will follow exactly the same steps given here, with some screenshots for ease of understanding.

Prerequisites

Allocate the hostname and IP address, and create DNS records (A and PTR) for the virtual IP of the vPostgres DB and two vPostgres DB nodes:

  1. Create the NSX load balancer configurations for the vPostgres database.

  2. Freshly...