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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

Validation test


At this stage, we have completed the installation of the required components for vRealize Automation. Before we proceed, let's demonstrate that the installation thus far has come along up to the mark. To this purpose, we will be onboarding a tenant and adding administrators to manage it. As a last step, we will check whether the DEM node is active and online. Let's take a look at how this is done:

  1. Log in to the default tenant portal using the SSO administrator credentials ([email protected])—https://CAFE.PKCT.LOCAL/vcac

  2. From the default page, click Add Tenant to create a new tenant Publication and then click Submit and Next:

  3. In the Identity Stores page, click Add Identity Store and fill in the required details and click Add to add the identity store. Click Next to proceed to the Administrators page:

  4. Add the Tenant administrators and Infrastructure administrators users and click Add to finish the tenant creation process. You may choose to use the domain administrator...